Manager – Product Innovation
| Company | Mastercard |
|---|---|
| Location | Boston, MA, USA, Arlington, VA, USA, White Plains, NY, USA |
| Salary | $137000 – $219000 |
| Type | Full-Time |
| Degrees | |
| Experience Level | Senior, Expert or higher |
Requirements
- Knowledge (technical or strategic) around data wrangling, modeling, reporting, automation needs in different products, solutions, and offerings
- Experience or exposure to product development
- Engineering or data science skillsets
- Ability to manage multiple projects and tight timelines
- Familiarity with multiple software programs and languages such as R, Python, Hadoop, SQL, Git, Spark, and others
Responsibilities
- Actively communicates with stakeholders, product groups, and clients
- Helps to shape, prioritize, and execute our product roadmap in collaboration with other colleagues
- Works well with product, engineering, analytics, and delivery teams to tackle innovative ideas and close operational gaps
- Iterates quickly on proof-of-concept ideas and MVPs for communication, demos, and develops preliminary methods or hypotheses for working groups
- Works with the ELS engineering and economics/econometrics groups to implement the product vision via project management, direct data science applications, and/or self-driven expansion of core ideas and infrastructure
- Partners with delivery teams to ensure existing product success and to identify areas for efficiency improvement, upskilling opportunities, and knowledge/skill gaps
Preferred Qualifications
- Entrepreneurial mindset, willing to thoughtfully take risks
- Previous client-facing experience, proficient in synthesizing data to create insights
- Familiarity with economics and econometrics
- Creative & passionate about statistics/math, economics, data, technology, and its applications
- Strong collaborator and independent thinker
- Evidence of creativity, innovation, and unorthodox thinking