Product Innovation Manager

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
Product Innovation Manager
Services is a key differentiator for Mastercard, providing cutting-edge services that help our customers grow. Focused on thinking big and scaling fast around the globe, this agile team is responsible for end-to-end solutions for a diverse global customer base. Centered on data-driven technologies and innovation, these services include consulting, loyalty and marketing programs, business experimentation, and data-driven information and risk management services.
Within Foundry, the Product Innovation Manager will be supporting the execution of new to market product development across core payments and services. Role responsibility including identification, execution, and in-market delivery of new products and solutions. The responsibilities will include execution of near-term opportunities that drive significant in year revenue and strategic differentiation for Mastercard, as well as scoping, identification, in-market testing of longer-term product concepts and solutions
Role
- Engage in idea generation for new to market products and solutions including workshop facilitation and collateral development.
- Contribute to developing product concepts and prototypes and independently own and deliver key tasks associated with it.
- Partner with Product & Engineering partners and our CX&D team on concept validation and market testing and independently own and deliver key tasks associated with it.
- Contribute/own business case development and planning for individual products.
- Own and deliver high quality collateral materials to facilitate internal decision making.
- Lead cross functional workshops and manage follow up actions to completion.
- Partner with CXD, Product and R&D teams by providing prioritised requirements.
- Work within a matrixed organisation to influence and drive outcomes within tight timelines.
All About You
- In-depth understanding of payments acceptance ecosystem.
- Experience in the acquirer payments domain and/or in developing Stablecoin product propositions, within a Product Development, Product Management, or consulting roles.
- Strong analytical, verbal and written communication skills.
- Strong product development and management experience, including rapid opportunity identification, concept development, business model innovation, and in market testing of global products is preferred.
- Previous experience working in Payments innovation space delivering new to market value propositions.
- Critical thinker that is comfortable with technical details, and experience working with R&D teams.
- Flair in connecting people and ideas; ability to operate in a matrix environment.
- Right to work in the UK without restriction.
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.