Senior Product Management Specialist

Senior Specialist, Product Management

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 ManagementAbout Mastercard: Mastercard is a global technology company in the payments industry. Our mission is to connect and power an inclusive, digital economy that benefits everyone, everywhere by making transactions safe, simple, smart, and accessible. Using secure data and networks, partnerships, and passion, our innovations and solutions help individuals, financial institutions, governments, and businesses realize their greatest potential. Our decency quotient, or DQ, drives our culture and everything we do inside and outside of our company. With connections across more than 210 countries and territories, we are building a sustainable world that unlocks priceless possibilities for all.
Our Team: As consumer preference for digital payments continues to grow, ensuring a seamless and secure consumer experience is top of mind. The Optimization Solutions team focuses on tracking digital performance across all products and regions, understanding the factors influencing performance and the broader industry landscape. This includes delivering data-driven insights and business recommendations, engaging directly with key external stakeholders on implementing optimization solutions (new and existing), and partnering across the organization to drive alignment and ensure action is taken.
• Are you excited about Data Assets and the value they bring to an organization?
• Are you an evangelist for data-driven decision-making?
• Are you motivated to be part of a team that builds large-scale Analytical Capabilities supporting end users across 6 continents?
• Do you want to be the go-to resource for data science & analytics in the company?

The Role
This role is responsible for developing, managing, and owning a suite of dashboards that provide deep insights into key KPI performance and its underlying drivers. The role treats dashboards as products, with clear ownership, roadmap, quality standards, and stakeholder adoption.
• Own the end-to-end development, maintenance, and evolution of a suite of Power BI dashboards that surface performance insights across products, and regions
• Act as the dashboard product owner, defining requirements, success metrics, and roadmap in partnership with business, product, and regional stakeholders
• Design and build scalable data pipelines and data models to support reliable, timely, and accurate performance reporting and analysis
• Perform data ingestion, transformation, aggregation, and processing on high-volume, high-dimensionality data to enable consistent and trusted insights
• Ensure dashboards translate complex analytical outputs into clear, actionable narratives for business, product, and executive audiences
• Partner closely with data science and analytics teams to integrate advanced analytics and machine learning outputs into dashboards where applicable
• Continuously improve dashboard performance, usability, and data quality, incorporating feedback and evolving business needs
• Apply strong understanding of metrics, measurements, and benchmarking to contextualize performance and trends
• Drive alignment across teams to ensure insights lead to action and measurable business outcomes

All About You
• A superior academic record at a leading university in Computer Science, Data Science, Technology, Mathematics, Statistics, or a related field, or equivalent work experience
• Strong experience in owning and managing enterprise analytics dashboards as products, from concept through delivery and ongoing enhancement
• Deep hands-on expertise in Power BI, including dashboard design, data modeling, performance optimization, and storytelling for business audiences
• Solid background in data engineering and data pipeline development, enabling end-to-end ownership from raw data to insights
• Experience in data management, data analytics, data reporting, and data product development
• Proficiency in Python/Spark, Hadoop platforms & tools (Hive, Impala, Airflow, NiFi), and SQL to build and support large-scale data solutions
• Strong analytical skills with a proven ability to translate data into meaningful insights and recommendations
• Product management mindset, with experience gathering requirements, prioritizing features, managing stakeholders, and driving adoption of analytical products
• Demonstrated success working with cross-functional stakeholders to ensure dashboards and insights meet real business and product needs
• Ability to build a compelling narrative around performance and the business value of data-driven insights
• Able to thrive in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment as both a team player and individual contributor

Corporate Security Responsibility

All activities involving access to Mastercard assets, information, and networks comes with an inherent risk to the organization and, therefore, it is expected that every person working for, or on behalf of, Mastercard is responsible for information security and must:

• Abide by Mastercard’s security policies and practices;

• Ensure the confidentiality and integrity of the information being accessed;

• Report any suspected information security violation or breach, and

• Complete all periodic mandatory security trainings in accordance with Mastercard’s guidelines.

Experience Level

Senior Level