Senior Product Manager - Technical

Mastercard•O'fallon, MO

3d•Onsite

About The Position

The Cryptographic Security Engineering program designs, builds and supports service platforms that provide cryptographic, key management and certificate management functions utilized by global Mastercard application teams. The candidate must be able to obtain a deep technical understanding of the applications/systems that they are working on and must be willing to dig in and ask challenging questions to solutions address our customers’ needs. Candidates should have a strong interest in Cryptographic Security and demonstrate strong technical leadership and ability to engage in out-of-the-box problem solving.

Requirements

Several years of product management or technical product development and experience shipping high-quality products.
Understands and can explain the business context and the associated customer use cases
Excellent analysis and design skills is a must. Can research customer problem domain and systems. Can product impactful product content and functional design artefacts.
Experience in agile delivery methodologies (scrum, Kanban, etc.), with some basic knowledge of modern DevOps.
Track record of successful delivery of product features from design, development, deployment and customer integration.
Proficient at backlog management and prioritization.
Data driven – ability to define measurable and SMART leading and lagging metrics
Thrives in a highly collaborative environment involving different stakeholders and subject matter experts globally. Recognize discordant views and take part in constructive dialog to resolve them
Improve team processes that accelerate delivery, drive innovation, lower costs, and improve quality
Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal

Nice To Haves

Experience in Lean Product management and Lean management principles is a plus.
Knowledge of cryptography is a plus

Responsibilities

Be customer obsessed: Develop & provide the organization with a deep appreciation for customer needs, the ecosystem and the key market dynamics.
Systems analysis and design: gain in-depth understanding of the product platform and ecosystem around it. Prepare functional artefacts for Engineering covering data flows, sequence diagrams, API and other interface specifications
Work management: define roadmap to support the delivery of objectives. Turn system designs into features and stories that can be actioned by Engineering
Lead story elaboration, including creation of detailed, comprehensive acceptance criteria
Provide technical analysis of application software to ensure that business and functional requirements can be met
Manage strategic alignment across teams: working with stakeholders, ensure backlogs are properly prioritized and refined according to anticipated business value & measurable outcomes
Agile Mindset: advocate for taking an agile approach to product development through all activities from defining an epic to writing acceptance criteria on a user story
Measure outcomes & seek continuous improvements: Evaluate & seek to improve existing practices, metrics, and roles to continually optimize

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