Senior Specialist, Product Management - Commercial Connect API

Mastercard•Atlanta, GA

27d

About The Position

Our Purpose 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. Title and Summary Senior Specialist, Product Management - Commercial Connect API Role Overview The Commercial Connect API is a modern platform enabling unified access to Mastercard’s commercial payment capabilities, including virtual cards, payment flows, entity operations, controls, data attributes, and reporting. As a Product Owner, you will execute the product vision defined by senior leadership by converting strategy into detailed functional requirements and driving delivery with engineering. This role is central to ensuring clarity, consistency, and high quality execution across a broad and technically complex API surface. ________________________________________

Requirements

3+ years in product ownership, business analysis, or API-focused product delivery.
Ability to translate complex workflows into clear, testable requirements.
Comfortable partnering deeply with engineering in Agile environments.
Strong analytical thinking, written clarity, and stakeholder communication skills.

Nice To Haves

Experience with APIs, data structures, or payments is a plus but not required.

Responsibilities

Translate leadership’s product direction into structured Epics, user stories, acceptance criteria, and workflow definitions.
Ensure requirements are complete, technically sound, and aligned to intended business outcomes.
Keep the backlog healthy, prioritized, and ready for development at all times.
Work hand in hand with engineering to break down requirements, clarify edge cases, and support architectural feasibility.
Participate in refinement, sprint planning, and delivery ceremonies to maintain alignment and unblock development.
Validate delivered functionality through acceptance testing and close partnership with QA.
Coordinate with commercialization, program managers, integrators, and customer facing teams to support testing, onboarding, and release activities.
Provide internal stakeholders and delivery partners with clear product explanations, workflows, and API behavior guidance.
Ensure documentation, change notes, and reference materials reflect current product capabilities.
Help ensure releases meet expected quality, performance, and reliability standards.
Identify risks, surface dependencies early, and support mitigation planning.
Assist in readiness for MTF and production releases, working with engineering and operations teams.

Benefits

insurance (including medical, prescription drug, dental, vision, disability, life insurance)
flexible spending account and health savings account
paid leaves (including 16 weeks of new parent leave and up to 20 days of bereavement leave)
80 hours of Paid Sick and Safe Time, 25 days of vacation time and 5 personal days, pro-rated based on date of hire
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
In line with Mastercard’s total compensation philosophy and assuming that the job will be performed in the US, the successful candidate will be offered a competitive base salary and may be eligible for an annual bonus or commissions depending on the role.