Mastercard
Associate Product Specialist, Launch Graduate Program 2026 - London, UK
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The role involves learning product management practices, developing business cases, measuring product metrics, managing initiatives, and ensuring customer satisfaction while prioritizing tasks in a collaborative environment.
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
Associate Product Specialist, Launch Graduate Program 2026 - London, UK
Launch Program
Mastercard Launch is an 18-month global development program providing recent graduates with opportunities and exposure. You will not only enhance your professional growth and skills in a global setting, you'll launch your Mastercard career.
Associate Product Specialist, Product Management
You will have the chance to learn how to develop business cases for new product opportunities, develop scalable customer-centric products, and see those projects through to go-to-market. When joining one of our highly collaborative product teams, you will have the opportunity to build and manage great products. We are looking for passionate and talented professionals, who share our vision for developing scalable customer-centric products with agility and excellence.
As an Associate Product Specialist, you may:• Identify and measure product and business metrics to increase adoption and understand customers' ongoing needs • Conduct iterative experiments to identify and prioritise key features for inclusion with product releases and product roadmap • Assist customers to resolve operational issues that have been escalated • Project management of strategic initiatives
What you'll need • To be available to start from 1st September 2026 • To be a Final Year Undergraduate/Masters students or to have graduated no earlier than September 2025 • Analytical and problem-solving skills• Strong strategic and conceptual aptitude• Ability to multi-task and prioritise multiple projects concurrently • High-energy, can-do attitude, very strong sense of ownership
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:
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
Associate Product Specialist, Launch Graduate Program 2026 - London, UK
Launch Program
Mastercard Launch is an 18-month global development program providing recent graduates with opportunities and exposure. You will not only enhance your professional growth and skills in a global setting, you'll launch your Mastercard career.
Associate Product Specialist, Product Management
You will have the chance to learn how to develop business cases for new product opportunities, develop scalable customer-centric products, and see those projects through to go-to-market. When joining one of our highly collaborative product teams, you will have the opportunity to build and manage great products. We are looking for passionate and talented professionals, who share our vision for developing scalable customer-centric products with agility and excellence.
As an Associate Product Specialist, you may:• Identify and measure product and business metrics to increase adoption and understand customers' ongoing needs • Conduct iterative experiments to identify and prioritise key features for inclusion with product releases and product roadmap • Assist customers to resolve operational issues that have been escalated • Project management of strategic initiatives
What you'll need • To be available to start from 1st September 2026 • To be a Final Year Undergraduate/Masters students or to have graduated no earlier than September 2025 • Analytical and problem-solving skills• Strong strategic and conceptual aptitude• Ability to multi-task and prioritise multiple projects concurrently • High-energy, can-do attitude, very strong sense of ownership
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.
Mastercard London, England Office
1 Angel Lane, London, United Kingdom, EC4R 3AB
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