Lead Product Manager Technical

Job Title:

Lead Product Manager - Technical

Overview:

Overview:
Are you a product management professional who wants to shape the Developer XP for Mastercard's products? Do you want to work for a company that offers above and beyond benefits including paid parental leave, flexible work hours, gift matching, and even volunteer incentives? Do you want to work in an inclusive and nurturing culture that encourages your own professional learning and development?

The ideal candidate is passionate about the developer and developer journey, highly motivated, intellectually curious, analytical, and articulate.

The Role
Product Management-Technical (PM-T) is product management role that is also technical in nature and works closely with customers, Technical Program Managers, Software Design Engineers, and User Experience.
You will define and guide products, that may be technical, from conception to launch by connecting the technical and business worlds. PM-Ts decompose the requirements into features, user stories, prioritize the backlog, and define the acceptance criteria. PM-Ts are in it for the long term, looking beyond the current project to become experts in their domain. They feed engineering a well-groomed backlog of features, user stories. They encourage re-use of their building blocks, continuously innovating on behalf of internal and external customers. As new capabilities are required, they will define their place in the platform ecosystem and write/prioritize the user stories to build the new block. When commercialization opportunities are identified for their building blocks, they will tee up ideas to the product development teams for further development.

In this role you will:
• Advocate for our customers by talking to them and understanding their use cases and pain points, work they do, things they care about the most, tools they use day to day, etc.
• Understand the customer journey and user experience to enable them to rapidly develop, deploy, and scale their applications across multiple platforms.
• Work closely with the engineering teams to roll out the platform capabilities that our internal and external customer's desire.
• Identify and gather key metrics to track product usage, quality, and satisfaction and make decisions about product roadmap and prioritization.

All About You

Education: Bachelor's degree in a technical or business field.

• Software Engineering Background: Strong technical foundation (SDLC, CI/CD, cloud infrastructure, microservices, Kubernetes)
• Experience developing/launching products/technologies.
• Experience driving product vision, go-to-market strategy, and design discussions.
• Experience creating strategic product roadmaps, and working with cross-functional teams.
• Experience defining and building cloud-native software products at scale
• Like to dive deep into the technical and operational characteristics of the product
• Demonstrated ability to operate with complete independence and autonomy
• Proven track record of data-driven decision making and applying continuous improvement methodologies across your team
• Ability to influence multiple stakeholders without direct authority.
• Experience in agile delivery methodologies (scrum, Rally, etc.)
• Can communicate to executives, peers, and staff with impact, eloquence, and authenticity
• Ensures features and associated documentation are clear and easily consumable by other engineering teams.
• Demonstrated experience building organizational relationships, partnering with and influencing teams while commanding the respect of the individuals on the team

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