Senior Specialist- Product 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- 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. Overview Mastercard Security Solutions Organisation (SSO) is responsible for safeguarding trust in payments today while building the security capabilities of the future. Within this organization, the Identity Solutions team in Europe is seeking an experienced Senior Specialist, Identity Verification, to support the development of Mastercard’s identity verification strategy across Europe & UKI and drive adoption of its identity verification products and solutions. Mastercard’s identity capabilities leverage network intelligence, AI, behavioral analytics, and real-time transaction data to make smarter trust decisions across digital interactions and payments. By analyzing signals such as device behavior, transaction history, identity attributes, merchant patterns, geolocation, and network-level insights, Mastercard helps assess risk more accurately and determine whether a transaction or user interaction is legitimate. This is a unique opportunity to help shape innovative identity verification solutions that protect millions of consumers and businesses across Europe & UKI. The ideal candidate is highly motivated, analytical, and entrepreneurial, with a passion for solving complex identity and fraud challenges in the evolving digital payments ecosystem. In this position, you will be responsible for: - Product Strategy & Vision: Support the development of building and executing the regional identity verification product strategy . - Roadmap Development: Partners with market-facing teams to gather customer feedback in the region and support the development of product roadmap as well as delivery of product features. - Cross-functional Collaboration: Be the intermediary between global product development and local teams in Europe in product to shape a global proposition to European needs. - Go-to-Market Execution: Define and support a go-to-market plan for Identity verification products in alignment with regional stakeholders - Data Analytics : Adapt in analysing data to identify new product/ pricing/ GTM ideas - Performance Tracking: Establish reporting of identity verification product suit KPIs to regional and global teams and help in ensuring that established sales revenue targets are met - Identify and execute on new synergy and market growth opportunities within existing Mastercard products & services (e.g.: C2P, BNPL, Digital First…). Qualification and experience : - Experience as a Product Manager in consumer or business identity, cybersecurity, authentication, or regulatory technology. - Experience in managing product roadmaps, from concept to launch. - Ability to translate complex regulatory requirements into actionable product features. - Strong analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making skills. - Excellent communication and stakeholder management abilities - Experience working in an agile development environment - Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in a relevant field (e.g., ideally Computer Science, Business, Cybersecurity, Data Analytics) 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.