Vice President, Product Management, Data and Analytics

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.

Vice President, Product Management, Data and Analytics

We are seeking a visionary and customer-centric product leader to drive the evolution of our analytics product suite. The Vice President, Custom Analytics leads a high-performing team of data scientists, analytics consultants, and insight specialists responsible for delivering strategic, high-impact analytics solutions to enterprise stakeholders.

This role requires a strategic thinker with a strong analytical background, capable of leading globally distributed teams and collaborating closely with engineering to deliver innovative solutions that enhance customer experience.

The ideal candidate combines strong analytical expertise with executive presence, business acumen, and organizational leadership. The candidate is required to balance the delivery of bespoke analytics engagements with the development of reusable assets, methodologies, and capabilities that improve scale, consistency, and business impact.

• Acts as a business owner and manages long-term and short-term strategic initiatives for custom analytics (analytics consulting) and products derived from those custom analytics
• Develop and deliver a consistent product vision, strategy and roadmap for custom analytics, configured analytics, and new products derived from custom and configured analytics
• Drive tangible data‑driven business outcomes at the analytics program level, manage to a quantified scorecard continuously monitoring and analyzing key performance indicators and optimizing custom analytics product performance
• Oversee product incubation and evolution, establish go‑to‑market strategy, optimize products and resources, implement incremental improvements within the product’s life cycle, conduct ongoing care and maintenance, and manage P&L
• Establish and drive product management disciplines across the product lifecycle, e.g., Studio framework, Agile development and product quality, ensuring product readiness across Technology, Delivery, Product and GTM perspectives
• Manage and optimize budgets, forecasting, and cost allocation to enable the delivery of key business objectives
• Advocate for analytics program and custom analytics products by creating compelling communications for Senior and Executive Management
• Build, motivate and lead direct and cross‑functional teams, leveraging trust‑based relationships to deliver an efficient operating model
• Drive a user‑centric culture of data driven, test and learn experimentation, continuously assessing and enhancing the Product user experience. Lead cross functional teams including Delivery and Servicing teams (GCC, CTS, Biz Ops) to ensure that Products are easy to deploy and deliver a great experience during operation
• Engage in scheduled Voice of the Customer engagement to identify Product friction points, creating and owning the action plan to address them in partnership with Product Operations
• Emulate and drive Mastercard Way behaviors through their behavior, recognitions, coaching, and employee engagement.
• Drive institutionalized knowledge through the use of consistent documentation (e.g., support documents) across all processes to support knowledge management and ensure consistency and repeatability across projects

• Proven ability to lead in a matrix environment
• Demonstrated ability to operate with complete independence and autonomy
• Proven track record of data driven decision making and applying continuous improvement and test and learn methodologies across teams
• Demonstrated experience as a leader of leaders with strong interpersonal skills and the ability to develop product talent (both managers and…