Product Readiness & Advisory Senior Specialist

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.

Title and Summary

Product Readiness & Advisory Senior Specialist

Cross-Border Services focuses on new payment flows to consumers, including cross-border Person-to-Person (P2P) payments, Business-to-Business (B2B), and Government Disbursements, and Remittances.
Cross -Border Services leads the development and deployment of MasterCard Cross-Border payment products and services to the market and holds direct accountability for the end-to-end customer experience, managing the product life cycle, developing new features, use cases and target segments for the product. This includes dynamic consultation and management of both business and technical facets for Product Management and leading both internal and external partners towards successful execution.
The Product Readiness & Advisory Senior Specialist, supports the Product Advisory team as a bridge between Global Product and regional stakeholders, driving feature understanding, roadmap transparency, and open dialogue. This role will report into the Vice President, Product Readiness and Advisory
Responsibilities
•Support the Product Advisory team in driving product and feature understanding across all stakeholders in the regions
•Construct product roadmap views tied to the value features drive for the regions
•Advocate for regional priorities across all product elements
•Assist regions in client pitches, RFPs, and general conversations
All About you;
•3-5 years of experience in Account to Accounts Payments
•Experience in a consulting environment would be a plus
•Understanding of various payment types and schemes
•Clear understanding of Foreign Exchange dynamics
•Skilled in Excel, PowerPoint, and Visio
•Strong sense of curiosity

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.