Senior Specialist, Identity Market Management

Our Purpose

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.

Title and Summary

Senior Specialist, Identity Market Management

Overview:
Mastercard is a technology company in the global payments business, connecting cardholders, customers, financial institutions, merchants, governments and businesses worldwide. Mastercard’s Security Solutions team is part of Mastercard’s global Services group, and provides strategic and cutting-edge safety, security, identity, cyber and fraud solutions to Mastercard’s customers and cardholders across the globe. Identity Solutions are foundational to establishing trust, enabling global commerce, powering financial inclusion, preventing crime and enhancing frictionless experiences. Identity is a critical need in the ecosystem and remains a key enabler of growth for our customers and our business around the globe.
Have you ever brought a product to market on a global scale? Do you have a track record of “getting things done” in a highly matrixed environment? Are you excited by and innovative and risk-taking role?
The Authentication and Identity Solutions market management team is looking for a Senior Specialist to support the go-to-market strategy for identity services like NuData, Ekata, EMV 3DS and other emerging services. In this role you will focus on product management and support activities associated with all aspects of the Product Management Excellence (PME) model. You’ll have the opportunity to act as the business owner and manages long-term and short-term strategic initiatives for a commercialized product. The position requires collaboration cross-functional teams to ensure the effective sales strategy, packaging and delivery of Authentication and Identity Solutions Products.
Role:
•Management, alignment and execution of opportunities/challenges across identity business lines
•Build strong relationships across Mastercard including customer, technology, and product teams
•Identify and prioritize new opportunities to broaden the reach of highlighted solutions
•Drive thought leadership agenda - articulating strategy, innovation roadmap and value proposition
•Leverage and share data insights, voice of the customer to drive process and product enhancements
All About You:
• Analytical and able to do market sizing, new pricing exercises
•Comfortable dealing with ambiguity and working a cross-functional environment
•Excited about working with large and emerging Financial Services, Technology, Service Providers, Processors, and/or Digital Platform Partners
•Understanding of the North American (NAM) market, including customers
•Demonstrated ability to act with a persistent and relentless sense of urgency
•Ability to forge strong relationships, including both executive and functional levels
•Demonstrated leadership capabilities to drive alignment across a matrixed organization and teams
•Outstanding collaboration and interpersonal communication skills
•Self-starter, highly organized, collaboration-minded and results driven
•Overnight travel required (5%)

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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.