Job description
- Acts as an incubation phase for the creation/ideation of new products
- Roles in this family focus on innovation management; they assess opportunities, define and create new products/prototypes and test differentiated value propositions that meet stakeholder needs (eg, consumer, merchants, banks, governments, issuers)
Role
- Performs assigned tasks in the product development life cycle, monitors project roadmaps for specific development projects and supports budget management
- Identifies and consolidates development needs from product management teams
- Participates in the development of functional specifications and requirements for specific products
- Provides information to technical developers on translating product requirements into technical specifications
- Leverages analysis performed by lower level colleagues to develop presentations for internal and external stakeholders
- Evaluates the need for and organizes prototype development
- Monitors the efficiency of development and implementation processes, and contributes to continuous improvement efforts
- Manages relationships with external vendors
- Supports product launches and implementations
- Provides technical expertise and guidance to customers including technical support and product trainings
All About You
- Led the rapid prototyping process for at least one product feature
- Experience executing on product features and enhancements and gaining awareness of underlying platform capabilities and limitations
- Strong track record of contributing to identification of innovative product features by drawing insights from competitor market data
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.