Senior Specialist – Product Management
| Company | Mastercard |
|---|---|
| Location | Toronto, ON, Canada |
| Salary | $Not Provided – $Not Provided |
| Type | Full-Time |
| Degrees | Bachelor’s |
| Experience Level | Senior |
Requirements
- Bachelor’s Degree in Business, Economics, Finance, Computer Science, or other related area
- Experience as a Product Owner, Business Analyst, or similar role in an Agile development team
- Proficiency for problem solving and decision making, bolstered through research and analytic capabilities
- Experience providing mockups, flow charts and process diagrams, to capture requirements, present solutions, and facilitate discussions
- Proven experience with product development and management
- Comfortable getting into depth of data available through transaction flows that could be leveraged to enhance value propositions
- Demonstrated track record of achieving business targets and building business relationships
- Experience translating and applying business requirements (internal, external) to technical product requirements and product strategies
- Proven project management, organization, and thought leadership skills with ability to build, lead, and maintain strong, productive working relationships with internal stakeholders
- Superior communications, presentation and interpersonal skills with successful track record engaging at senior levels in organization and with customers
- Understands and can explain the business context and the associated customer use cases
- Verbal and written communication is clear and concise
- Can lead improvement team processes that accelerate product development, delivery, drive innovation, lower costs, and improve quality
Responsibilities
- Gather and validate requirements, consulting with product management, development, customers, and other stakeholders in the market
- Own the product backlog, ensuring it is prioritized, cleaned, and refined
- Manage all scrum ceremonies for the development team you are embedded in
- Decide what to build and what not to build, translating the strategic plan into tactical execution
- Work with others in product management to plan releases that are aligned with overall corporate goals
- Be an active Scrum team member for key day-to-day activities, such as UAT, clarifying requirements, sharing the business value around features, and participating in all Scrum events
- Work with development, Quality Assurance, security, Operations, and data teams to drive delivery of releases
- Provide post-release education via demos, release notes, and other documentation
- Engage customers and end users to elicit feedback around the product offering
Preferred Qualifications
- Domain experience in payments and disputes space is strongly preferred