Specialist, Product Development - Business Integration & Excellence

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

Specialist, Product Development - Business Integration & Excellence

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.

Our decency quotient, or DQ, drives our culture and everything we do inside and outside of our company. With connections across more than 210 countries and territories, we are building a sustainable world that unlocks priceless possibilities for all.

Services within Mastercard is responsible for acquiring, engaging, and retaining customers by managing fraud and risk, enhancing cybersecurity, and improving the digital payments experience. We provide value-added services and leverage expertise, data-driven insights, and execution.


Overview

The Business Integration & Excellence Team in Security Solutions is seeking a Product Development Owner to align business and technology strategies and support product development activities. This role focuses on enabling the creation and implementation of a range of products and services designed to detect fraud, ensure uninterrupted commerce, and maximize transaction value. The ideal candidate thrives in fast-paced environments and excels at transforming business needs into deliverable products.

Role

As a Product Development Owner, you will:
• Manage Program and Intake processes to ensure optimal resource allocation, timeline commitments, external team dependencies, cross synergies, and efficiencies.
• Implement the product roadmap by translating business requirements to engineering teams and managing the Epics throughout the software engineering lifecycle.
• Collaborate closely with the Product Managers to execute critical tasks for project success.
• Ensure development teams deliver high-quality work that aligns with business requirements, removing blockers, and keeping stakeholders informed.
• Act as the main point of contact between the business and development teams, ensuring alignment and clear communication.
• Evangelize the product goals from the customer perspective with all internal and external stakeholders.
• Ensure we are building to meet Program and Product Objectives.

All About You

The ideal candidate for this position should:
• Be a strong communicator, both written and oral.
• Have the ability to work autonomously and take ownership of tasks with minimal supervision.
• Build partnerships across teams and mediate conflicts effectively.
• Possess a proactive mindset with excellent critical thinking and problem-solving capabilities.
• Have expert knowledge in the Software Engineering Lifecycle.
• Be able to manage priorities and delegate tasks effectively in a fast-paced environment.
• Be adaptable to change.

Preferable but not required:

• Studio experience
• AHA expertise
• Jira expertise
• Product Management experience
• Project Management experience/accreditation

Education

• Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, or Management Information Systems or equivalent combination of relevant experience and education

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. We hire the most qualified candidate for the role. In the US or Canada, if you require accommodations or assistance to complete the online application process or during the recruitment process, please contact [email protected] and identify the type of accommodation or assistance you are requesting. Do not include any medical or health information in this email. The Reasonable Accommodations team will respond to your email promptly.

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;

• 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.

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. The base salary offered may vary depending on multiple factors, including but not limited to location, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. 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; paid leaves (including 16 weeks of new parent leave and up to 20 days of bereavement leave); 80 hours of Paid Sick and Safe Time, 25 days of vacation time and 5 personal days, pro-rated based on date of hire; 10 annual paid U.S. observed holidays; 401k with a best-in-class company match; deferred compensation for eligible roles; fitness reimbursement or on-site fitness facilities; eligibility for tuition reimbursement; and many more. Mastercard benefits for interns generally include: 56 hours of Paid Sick and Safe Time; jury duty leave; and on-site fitness facilities in some locations.

Pay Ranges

O'Fallon, Missouri: $83,000 - $137,000 USD