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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

VP - Cybersecurity Product Management

Who is Mastercard?

Mastercard is a global technology company in the payments industry. Our mission is 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. With connections across more than 210 countries and territories, we are building a sustainable world that unlocks priceless possibilities for all.

Services within Mastercard is responsible for acquiring, engaging, and retaining customers by managing fraud and risk, enhancing cybersecurity, and improving the digital payments experience. We provide value-added services and leverage expertise, data-driven insights, and execution.

The role of Vice President of Product Management is a strategic leadership role driving the vision and execution of Mastercard’s cybersecurity products. This role will focus on developing and implementing strategies, selling the product both internally and externally, and mentoring the team to achieve business goals, program objectives and individual career goals.

The role will involve creating new processes, fostering innovation, and ensuring Mastercard Cybersecurity products remain disruptive in the market. The role will work closely with various stakeholders to deliver market leading, profitable products that help safeguard the payment ecosystem.

We're looking for a visionary leader who is curious, thoughtful, and analytical, with a passion for payments, fraud prevention, cybersecurity, and enhancing the customer experience.

Role

Strategic Leadership: Develop and implement strategies that drive the vision and execution of our cybersecurity products.
Product Advocacy: Sell the product internally and externally, ensuring alignment and buy-in from all stakeholders.
Team Mentorship: Mentor and guide your team, fostering a culture of excellence and continuous improvement.
Process Innovation: Create and refine processes that enhance efficiency and effectiveness in product management.
Disruption and Innovation: Ensure our products remain disruptive and innovative, staying ahead of market trends and emerging threats.
Communication: Establish and maintain strong two-way communications with our go-to-market teams, customers, and partners. Manage and communicate product performance through dashboard reporting and metrics for multiple constituents.
Support: Oversee the evaluation, piloting, and launch of new capabilities for your products.
Risk Assessment: Monitor and assess risks of both existing and emerging competitive solutions, seeking to differentiate core capabilities, features, and functions to ensure consistent competitive advantage in the marketplace.
Industry Understanding: Incorporate an understanding of the broader payments ecosystem into ongoing product management (e.g., regulatory, legal, technology, competitive environment).

All About You

Customer Focus: You understand customer needs and pain points related to cybersecurity and can translate these insights into product features that enhance security and user experience.
Go-To-Market Expertise: You have experience in developing and executing go-to-market strategies, ensuring successful product launches and market adoption.
Analytical Skills: You excel at analyzing market data, customer feedback, and the competitive landscape to identify opportunities and make data-driven decisions.
Communication Skills: You have strong verbal and written communication skills, enabling you to convey complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders and collaborate effectively with various teams.
Problem-Solving Abilities: You're adept at identifying problems, developing solutions, and implementing them efficiently, which is crucial for addressing security vulnerabilities and improving product performance.
Industry Knowledge: You're well-versed in the cybersecurity industry, keeping up with current trends, regulatory requirements, and best practices to make informed decisions and stay ahead of emerging threats.
Product Development Experience: You bring proven experience in product management, especially in software development. You're skilled in product lifecycle management, agile methodologies, and collaborating with cross-functional teams.

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. We hire the most qualified candidate for the role. 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. The Reasonable Accommodations team will respond to your email promptly.

Corporate Security Responsibility

Responsibilities

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.

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 based on location, experience and other qualifications for the role 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, paid leaves (including 16 weeks new parent leave, up to 20 paid days bereavement leave), 10 annual paid sick days, 10 or more annual paid vacation days based on level, 5 personal days, 10 annual paid U.S. observed holidays, 401k with a best-in-class company match, deferred compensation for eligible roles, fitness reimbursement or on-site fitness facilities, eligibility for tuition reimbursement, gender-inclusive benefits and many more.

Pay Ranges

Purchase, New York: $223,000 - $357,000 USD

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