Product Manager, Market Intelligence

Role:
Manager, MPI Product Strategy and Market Intelligence

Location:

Atlanta, GA (Hybrid - 3 days a week onsite)

Payments data is powerful, but only when it helps people make better decisions. CMSPI is looking for a commercially minded payments manager with strong product instincts to help make the Merchant Payments Index (MPI) one of our most important intelligence products.

In this role,you’llhelp turn proprietary payments data into better benchmarks, stronger client insight, and practical ways for account teams to advise merchants.

You’llmove between payments detail, product thinking, data, and client-facing storytelling:translating real merchant and account-team questions into useful MPI features, insight outputs, and enablement.

CMSPI is a global payments consultancy that works with leading merchantstoimprove payment performance, reduce cost, andmake better decisions in acomplexpaymentsmarket. Our work combines deepconsultingexpertisewith proprietary data, analytics, and technology-givingclientstheinsightand support they needtomove from knowing there is a problem to knowing what to do about it.

• Help manage the MPI product agenda, including roadmap priorities, use cases, adoption plans, success measures, and product requirements
• Work with Data, Technical Product, Data Science, and Engineering to improve MPI functionality,methodology, usability, reporting, roadmap execution, and Digital Twin use cases
• Help account teams use MPI in client reviews, renewals, growth conversations, and strategic recommendations
• Turn trends, benchmarks, risks, opportunities, and market signals into repeatable briefings, insight packs, client education, thought leadership, and practical recommendations
• Identify useful external datasets, partnership inputs, and selected client-facing opportunities that make MPI more differentiated and commercially relevant

CMSPI exists to help make the payments ecosystem more innovative, competitive, and transparent.

We’vebuilt a unique position as one of the premier trusted advisors to many of the world’s largest organizations, giving our teams the opportunity to work on questions that shape how major merchants understand and improve payments.

You’llhave adistinctive data foundation to build from. MPI is supported byCMSPI’sbroader platform, helping turn payments complexity into practical intelligence for clients and account teams, including:

• Over 87 billion transactions(and growing), amounting to trillions of USD in consumer spend
• Telemetry on 1 in 6 U.S. card transactions and payments performance data from over 50% of Fortune 500 merchants
• Over 60,000 BINs, more than 7,000 unique issuers, and 15+ unique card networks spanning over 40 markets globally
• Normalized, consistent data drawn from over 400 unique schemas
• A Databricks-backed platform supporting scalable insight development and more advanced intelligence products

If you enjoy working at the intersectionofpayments, product, data,andclient impact,we’dlove to hear from you.

• Strong experience in payments, fintech, merchant acquiring, payment networks, issuing, payment operations, payments consulting, data products, product management, market intelligence, or strategy
• Practical understanding of how merchants use payments data to make decisions on cost, authorization performance, payment methods, routing, fraud, customer experience, supplier management, or market change
• Experience translating business needs into product requirements, analytical questions, data priorities, or technical work streams
• Comfort working cross-functionally with consulting, product, data science, engineering, partnerships, sales, and marketing teams
• Strong communication and storytelling skills, with the ability to turn…