Manager, Strategy and Commercialization (Open Finance)
About The Position
The Global Open Finance & Developer Experience (OFDE) team is responsible for developing and scaling the future of Open Finance through innovative products, ecosystem partnerships, data-driven insights, and a developer-first approach that accelerates innovation across Mastercard's multi-rail network. We are seeking a Manager, Open Finance Strategy & Commercialization to help shape the future growth of Mastercard's Open Finance business globally. This individual will work at the intersection of strategy, commercialization, product, partnerships, and analytics to identify growth opportunities, build business cases, develop go-to-market plans, and support strategic initiatives that drive adoption, revenue growth, and enterprise value.
Requirements
- Be a strong strategic thinker, have analytical rigor, utilize commercial acumen, and executive communication skills to help accelerate Mastercard's expansion across Open Finance, data, API, and emerging digital commerce opportunities.
- Previous commercializations background working in payments, Open Finance and/or in Finance
- Experience defining and Go-to-market plans, revenue forecasting and commercial strategic opportunities for a B2B product
Responsibilities
- Lead strategic initiatives focused on growth, market expansion, product positioning, and competitive differentiation.
- Monitor industry trends, competitive dynamics, fintech innovation, and emerging technologies to identify opportunities and risks.
- Develop executive-ready recommendations and presentations that support business and product decision-making.
- Bring competitive and ecosystem insights to identify future product and commercialization opportunities.
- Partner with Product Owners and business leaders to develop and refine product business cases throughout the product lifecycle.
- Build market sizing analyses, revenue forecasts, pricing strategies, and commercialization plans.
- Define and optimize go-to-market strategies that maximize customer adoption and commercial performance.
- Support sales, partnership, and product teams on strategic opportunities, commercial constructs, and pricing recommendations.
- Identify and evaluate strategic investment, partnership, and acquisition opportunities.
- Develop KPI frameworks and executive reporting to track product and business performance.
- Lead quantitative analyses that support strategic decision-making and prioritization.
- Conduct financial modeling and scenario analysis to evaluate growth opportunities and investments.
- Translate complex data into actionable business recommendations.
- Support annual planning, quarterly business reviews, portfolio prioritization, budget management, and strategic operating rhythms.
- Drive alignment across Product, Finance, Sales, Marketing, Engineering, Operations, and regional teams.
- Identify key issues, evaluate alternatives, and develop structured action plans that drive measurable outcomes.
- Help ensure strategic initiatives move efficiently from concept through execution.
Benefits
- insurance (including medical, prescription drug, dental, vision, disability, life insurance)
- flexible spending account and health savings account
- 16 weeks of new parent leave
- up to 20 days of bereavement leave
- 80 hours of Paid Sick and Safe Time
- 25 days of vacation time
- 5 personal days
- 10 annual paid U.S. observed holidays
- 401k with a best-in-class company match
- deferred compensation for eligible roles
- fitness reimbursement or on-site fitness facilities
- eligibility for tuition reimbursement
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Manager
Education Level
No Education Listed
