Associate Product Specialist, Product Management, Agentic Commerce

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 Associate Product Specialist, Product Management, Agentic Commerce Associate Product Specialist, Product Management, Agentic Commerce Locations: New York City, Purchase Who is 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. With connections across more than 210 countries and territories, we are building a sustainable world that unlocks priceless possibilities for all. Overview The Mastercard Checkout Solutions team is looking for an Associate Product Specialist, Product Management, Digital Commerce to bring new products from concept to launch and commercialization. Our team leads Mastercard's efforts to build and scale digital payment products that enable commerce across devices, contexts, and geographies. We work with the biggest names in tech, ecommerce and financial services to leverage Mastercard's technological capabilities to solve partner business problems, create new propositions, and ensure seamless, secure and inclusive payments. Role The Associate Product Specialist, Product Management, Digital Commerce will be focused on creating an entirely new way for consumers to more directly engage with payment credentials wherever they are stored and used for payment across interfaces. Support the Mastercard Virtual Card Token Program (MVCT) and help execute the strategy for pilot, go-to-market, and scaling of th eproduct. Act as the global subject matter expert for the program among your counterparts in each target region. Provide direct support as each of these teams drive product adoption among customers in their market. Build and maintain a global customer pipeline and support regional delivery teams to onboard customers. • Refine and maintain the product roadmap, aligning with business objectives and customer needs. Help to develop and refine product value propositions that resonate with customers, balance contrasting interests among customer sets, and function across target markets / regions with different consumer-level considerations. Build enthusiasm around this value proposition among key stakeholders and work with the communications & sales teams to create corresponding sales and training materials. • Collaborate with internal stakeholders, building a coalition to progress the product through the first phases of its lifecycle with a vision and objective of rapidly achieving scale. Interface regularly with internal as well as external customers and stakeholders, including card issuers, digital wallets, acquirers, and payment service providers, to ensure challenges and opportunities are fully understood and captured. • Help define the commercialization strategy for the program, including pricing at the global and regional level, ongoing P&L, and long-term revenue projections. · Track and analyze program performance, idenifying opportunities for improvement and drive data-driven enhancements to address customer requirements or scale customer adoption. · Support adjacent products, and drive development of new products and features. Possess a blend of analytical capability, strategic thinking, and emotional intelligence and able to dive deep on all areas of the business to deliver creative solutions to unstructured problems. · Willing to hear new ideas and objectively consider challengers in the interest of achieving the best possible customer outcomes. · Awareness and understanding of Mastercard's key customers, partners, and external stakeholders in these areas, including Issuers, Payment Service Providers, Acquirers, Digital Wallet Operators, and Merchants. · Knowledge of the business drivers and technology of consumer payments, especially digital wallets, tokenization, and authentication, across global regions and markets will be a plus. · Bachelor's degree required. · Ability to demonstrate strengths in product design, presentation building, and self-led prototyping will be a plus. All activities involving access to Mastercard assets, information, and networks comes with an inherent risk to the organization and therefore, it is expected that the successful candidate for this position must: • Abide by Mastercard’s security policies and practices; • 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 reasonable_accommodation@mastercard.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.