Director, Product Development, Click To Pay, Core Payments-R-247657 Lisboa

Director, Product Development, Click To Pay, Core Payments-R-247657
Lisboa
Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal

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, 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

Director, Product Development, Click to Pay, Core Payments

Overview:

Mastercard Checkout Services focuses on making payments simpler, more efficient, and more secure. We are building highly scalable digital payment experiences through products such as Click to Pay, Secure Card on File Tokenization, and Token Authentication Service.

Our vision is to enable Click to Pay as a core card benefit across all issued cards worldwide and facilitate secure, seamless guest checkout experiences. This Director of Product Development, with a strong technical focus, will be part of the Mastercard Checkout Services team, shaping the strategic roadmap of Click to Pay and bringing innovative solutions to scale Mastercard Checkout Services.

We seek a top performer with entrepreneurial spirit and experience in executing complex technology projects across multiple product platform teams, collaborating with exceptional colleagues globally. This
- impact role sits at the intersection of product strategy, architecture, and solution design. If you're passionate about shaping the future of digital payments through smart, scalable architecture and creative solutions, join us!

Role Responsibilities

• Lead solutioning for product discovery initiatives, exploring new technologies, use cases, trends, and market opportunities to evolve the
  - term Click to Pay product strategy.
• Support
  - sales and partnership engagements by providing technical assessments, solution architectures, and integration overviews.
• Act as the technical bridge between external partners and internal product development teams—balancing user experience, feasibility, and system constraints.
• Translate customer and partner needs into scalable product capabilities and architectural designs across various use cases.
• Define and document technical requirements in collaboration with Product Managers, Engineering, UX, and Legal & Privacy teams.
• Stay current on industry trends, security protocols, and emerging technologies relevant to digital payments and authentication.

All About You

• 7+ years in product architecture, technical product management, or solution architecture roles—preferably in digital payments, identity, or
  - scale platforms.
• Deep familiarity with tokenization, secure remote commerce protocols, authentication, and PCI-related constraints.
• Strong understanding of web technologies, APIs,
  - native architecture, and
  - oriented design.
• Proven experience translating abstract product goals into concrete architecture and system behavior;
  
  
  
  
  - on experience with developer documentation, wireframes, or prototypes is a plus.
• Strong
  - functional collaboration skills across business, engineering, UX, and research teams.
• Excellent
  - solving,
  - building, and influencing skills with internal and external partners.
• Effective communication skills with both technical and
  - technical stakeholders.
• Experience in federated ecosystems or global product deployments is advantageous.
• Ability to work in a
  - paced environment, meet deadlines, and collaborate across teams.
• Bachelor’s degree required;
  
  
  
  an advanced degree is preferred.

Corporate Security Responsibility

All activities involving access to Mastercard assets, information, and networks carry inherent risks. Every employee or contractor must:

• Abide by Mastercard’s security policies and practices;
  
  
  
  
• Ensure confidentiality and integrity of accessed information;
  
  
  
  
• Report any suspected security violations or breaches;
  
  
  
  
• Complete all mandatory security trainings as per Mastercard’s guidelines.

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