Director, Product Management-R-248929 Lisboa

Director, Product Management-R-248929
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 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

Director, Product Management

Job Description Summary:

Debit remains a foundational product for Mastercard and its customers, consumers, and partners around the world – allowing consumers to pay and get paid for goods and services through seamless and secure payments experiences anytime, anywhere, and anyhow. This team sits within the broader Consumer Products and Processing organization and is responsible for all elements of debit product management – including defining and driving a differentiated product line strategy, maintaining debit product integrity, evaluating debit performance, developing debit insights, intelligence, and thought leadership, and more.

Role:

• Support core product management activities – including refreshing debit’s product line strategy for all relevant consumer segments, reviewing debit core value propositions, driving debit performance optimization, leading product governance, and closing product gaps.
• Support strategic partnership and optimization efforts to enhance debit’s competitive differentiation.
• Help lead research that informs current and future debit products, supporting the debit product line strategy.
• Lead debit product development efforts, delivering new capabilities and business models to accelerate growth and open new revenue streams aligned with the overall debit strategy.
• Manage debit product integrity to ensure the intended consumer experience, product value proposition, and differentiation from competitors.
• Partner closely with Consumer Solutions colleagues to ensure alignment and consistency between product strategies.
• Collaborate with regional and market colleagues to monitor execution against the global debit product line strategy, including CVP modernization/optimization and providing PLS toolkits.
• Refine debit product strategies in key strategic markets in partnership with regional teams.
• Monitor the competitive and regulatory landscape, driving insights, best practices, and thought leadership.
• Conduct analyses on debit’s financial, operational, and competitive performance, and disseminate insights and actions.
• Partner with marketing and communications to develop a strong internal and external narrative around debit.
• Support customer teams in key commercial opportunities related to debit.
• Assist in developing training and support materials for debit products.

All About You:

• Bachelor's degree required.
• Exposure to financial services, with payments/card industry experience preferred.
• Prior product management and/or strategic consulting experience preferred.
• Strong organizational skills and ability to manage multiple complex projects and drive impact.
• Influencing skills to drive initiatives across a matrix organization.
• Strong analytical skills to extract actionable insights from data.
• Excellent communication, presentation, and interpersonal skills.

Corporate Security Responsibility

All activities involving access to Mastercard assets, information, and networks come with inherent risks. Every person working for or on behalf of Mastercard must:

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