Job Description

Our Purpose

We work 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. We cultivate a culture of inclusion for all employees that respects their individual strengths, views, and experiences. We believe that our differences enable us to be a better team one that makes better decisions, drives innovation and delivers better business results.

Job Title

Lead Product Manager - Technical

RESPONSIBILITIES
Owns the working backwards document and vision for one or more features
Elicits and decomposes business requirements into platform requirements and user stories
Coordinates internal forums to collect and identify feature-level development opportunities
Contributes near-term input (quarterly) for the platform product portfolio and roadmap, prioritizing the backlog while defining the acceptance criteria for user stories
Recommends trade-off decisions on platform product features/depth of features/backlog items
Uses runtime metrics of their services in market as a feedback loop in to the backlog and balances the priorities against new feature requests
Owns and manages product documentation ensuring features and associated documentation are clear and easily consumable by other engineering teams
Enables self-service support and/or works to reduce overhead
Makes use of research, user studies, metrics and competitive analysis to understand the platform and business needs for a platform product and inform the backlog
May participate with the business in customer research to inform platform product feature needs
Coordinates with interdependent teams on platform product requirements
Keeps close to the design of the user experience
Continuously monitors feature development at the feature level adjusting throughout implementation as needed
Reviews product demo against acceptance criteria for the feature set
Prepares launches and monitors platform performances, adoption, and operational health for feature sets
Supports and participates in post-launch reviews and ensures feedback is reincorporated into the feature
Stays aligned with GTM plans for the feature set
Identifies issues that will keep the platform features from delivering on time and/or with the desired requirements and works with internal teams and customer service to identify, classify, and prioritize feature-level customer issues
Mentors team members
Assists with candidate selection and onboarding
JOB SPECIFIC EXPERIENCES
Take the time to fully learn the functionality, architecture, dependencies, and runtime properties of the systems involved with your projects. This includes the business requirements and associated use cases, Mastercard customer's experience, Mastercard's back office systems, the technical slack (application/service architecture), interfaces and associated data flows, dependent applications/services, runtime operations (i.e. trouble management/associated support strategies), and maintenance.
Understands and can explain the business context and the associated customer use cases
Proficient at grooming user stories, setting entrance/exit criteria and prioritizing a platform product backlog
Understands the technologies supporting the platform product and are able to hold your own in debates with other PM-Ts, TPMs, SDEs, and SPMs
Recognize discordant views and take part in constructive dialog to resolve them
Verbal and written communication is clear and concise
Improve team processes that accelerate delivery, drive innovation, lower costs, and improve quality

Due to COVID-19, most of our employees are working from home. Weve implemented a virtual hiring process and continue to interview candidates by phone or video and are onboarding new hires remotely. We value the safety of each member of our community because we know were all in this together.

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