Senior Specialist, Product Development
About The Position
Mastercard powers economies and empowers people in 200+ countries and territories worldwide. Together with our customers, we’re helping build a sustainable economy where everyone can prosper. We support a wide range of digital payments choices, making transactions secure, simple, smart and accessible. Our technology and innovation, partnerships and networks combine to deliver a unique set of products and services that help people, businesses and governments realize their greatest potential. The Start Path team is agile, well-connected and has a big vision: to partner with the best fintechs across the payments ecosystem to build the future of commerce. This Emerging FinTech Senior Specialist, Product Development role will be supporting the Emerging Fintech team within Start Path in thesis-building for fast emerging categories, working directly with Mastercard product teams to understand their product roadmap and partnership needs, startup sourcing and selection efforts, managing the relationships with existing portfolio of Start Path companies, supporting partnership strategy across multiple fintech areas, and helping to build a powerful brand halo for Mastercard in the vibrant startup community.
Requirements
- Proven track-record working with startups - well-versed in the fintech, startup engagement and venture capital domains
- Strong experience in cross-functional collaboration – driving alignment across product and commercial teams to drive commercial outcomes
- Strategic understanding of and interest in payment industry evaluating trends & competitive landscape
- Strong project management experience - highly organized, meticulous attention to detail & experience executing multiple projects concurrently
- Comfortable in a fast-paced team environment
Responsibilities
- Sourcing high-potential and strategic startups
- Driving partnerships and engagements with selected startups for commercial and strategic outcomes
- Collaborating closely with product teams on developing partnership strategy
- Track and analyze fast-emerging market trends in the start-up space, doing market landscaping, startup due diligence and bringing back key strategic insights in order to support the team in building investment hypotheses
- Drive innovative commercial engagements with startups across a diverse set of areas including payments, banking, financial inclusion, sustainability, data analytics, and more
- Advocate and evangelize the fintech strategy with internal and external stakeholders, including senior leadership at Mastercard, startups, venture capital firms, industry organizations, governments, and more
- Liaise with Product teams across Mastercard on their product roadmaps and strategies to find opportunity for startup partnership
- Anticipate significant domestic and regional fintech trends while developing and modifying strategies to manage these trends
Benefits
- Competitive pay based on location, experience and other qualifications for the role
- May be eligible to participate in a discretionary annual incentive program
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
No Education Listed
