Director, Product Development, Online Checkout

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.

Director, Product Development, Online Checkout
We are building highly scalable digital payment experiences through our products such as Click to Pay, Secure Card on File Tokenization and Token Authentication Service.
Our vision is to enable eliminate manual entry of cards online, and enable secure and seamless checkout experiences. This Director of Product Development, with a strong technical & strategic focus, will be part of Mastercard Checkout Services team, and shape the strategic roadmap and bring innovative solutions to life towards scaling Mastercard Checkout Services.
We are looking for a top performer with entrepreneurial spirit and experience in executing complex strategic & technology projects across multiple product teams, working with exceptional colleagues around the globe. If you're passionate about shaping the future of digital payments through smart, scalable architecture and creative solutioning, join us
Support pre-sales and partnership engagements by providing feasibility assessments, solution designing, and work in co-innovation model.
• 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 a variety of 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.
9+ years in product strategy, product development, or solution architecture roles - digital payments experience is a plus.
• Familiarity with online checkout, tokenization, authentication, and PCI-related topics.
• Strong understanding of web technologies, APIs, cloud-native architecture, and service-oriented design.
• Proven experience translating abstract product goals into concrete architecture and system behavior. Proven record of cross-functional collaboration skills with a strong focus on working across business, engineering, UX, and research teams.
• Strong Problem solving with ability to interact with, build consensus and influence a variety of internal and external business partners and customers.
• Bachelor's degree required, Advanced degree preferred.
Mastercard is a merit-based, inclusive, equal opportunity employer that considers applicants without regard to gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, ethnicity, disabled or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. In the US or Canada, if you require accommodations or assistance to complete the online application process or during the recruitment process, please contact and identify the type of accommodation or assistance you are requesting. Do not include any medical or health information in this email. 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;
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. Mastercard benefits for full time (and certain part time) employees generally include: insurance (including medical, prescription drug, dental, vision, disability, life insurance); flexible spending account and health savings account; 80 hours of Paid Sick and Safe Time, 25 days of vacation time and 5 personal days, pro-rated based on date of hire; S. observed holidays; fitness reimbursement or on-site fitness facilities; eligibility for tuition reimbursement; and on-site fitness facilities in some locations.