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. Lead Product
Manager - Technical Mastercard is seeking a Lead Product
Manager – Technical to join our AI Decisioning Platform Enablement (AI DPE) team. This role is ideal for a leader who thrives at the intersection of technology and product strategy and can translate complex technical capabilities into scalable business solutions. Within AI DPE, Technical Product
Managers (PM-Ts) serve as trusted advisors, partnering with market-facing product teams to enable their business goals through scalable AI and decisioning platform solutions. PM-Ts integrate expertise from architects, engineering PMs, and technical program
managers to define and execute actionable roadmaps aligned to enterprise and product priorities. Beyond platform enablement and development, this role plays a critical part in articulating and promoting AI DPE's capabilities to product owners, integration teams, and business leadership. Success requires consistent messaging, cross-initiative alignment, and clear visibility into AI DPE's contributions to Mastercard's broader product strategy. This is a hybrid position based in O'Fallon, MO, requiring three days per week onsite. Serve as the primary liaison for AI DPE across market-facing product teams, business integration, and key business stakeholders. Elicit feedback, manage escalations, ensure transparency, and maintain clear, proactive stakeholder communications. Bridge AI DPE business stakeholders with DMP technology teams to align platform roadmaps, internal product roadmaps, release plans, and prioritization decisions. Partner with product and technology teams to deliver measurable business value and position AI DPE as a strategic, value-add partner. Define, elaborate, and prioritize initiatives, including feasibility analysis, gating and approval processes, business case development, and data quality standards enforcement. Oversee work intake processes, including Level of Effort (LOE), Rough Order of Magnitude (ROM), and full business case estimation in partnership with Architecture, Engineering, UX, and TPMs. Create and refine epics, develop Aha! solution delivery roadmaps, ensure scope alignment, and partner with TPMs on project planning, PI slotting, and execution oversight. Track delivery progress, manage risks, ensure value realization through demos, UAT, and feedback loops, and adjust roadmaps as scope or schedule evolves. Represent market-facing product stakeholders in PI planning, participate in product councils, and support product development governance processes. Proven experience as a Product
Manager or Product Leader with a focus on technical platforms, preferably within AI, data, or decisioning domains. Strong understanding of modern architectural and engineering practices (APIs, microservices, cloud-native platforms, data ecosystems) with the ability to engage engineers at a detailed level. Strong interest in emerging technologies, particularly AI, decisioning systems, and data platforms; direct experience with AI DPE solutions preferred. Comfortable managing competing priorities within a fast-paced, matrixed organization. Strong leadership presence with experience coaching and mentoring Technical Product
Managers. Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Business, or a related field (or equivalent practical experience). 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.com and identify the type of accommodation or assistance you are requesting. Do not include any medical or health information in this email. 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; Report any suspected information security violation or breach, and 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.
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