Director, Product Development - Foundry

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.

Director, Product Development – Mastercard Foundry

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 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.

Mastercard Foundry is the innovation engine of Mastercard and a hub for new product development. We drive product innovation in emerging technologies and interfaces while focusing on developing a point of view to enhance existing solutions and new use‑cases. We also focus on building revenue‑generating ecosystems and flywheels that can be standalone in adjacent segments and markets. Examples of focus areas include commercial payments, new payment flows, real‑time payments, data and services.

Within Foundry, the Director, Product Development, will support the execution of new to‑market product development across Mastercard Security Solutions and Services. The role includes identification, execution, and in‑market delivery of new products and solutions. The responsibilities encompass 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.

• Partner with global and regional Cyber Product teams to understand the space, customer pain points and market dynamics.
• Engage in idea generation for new products and services, including workshop facilitation and collateral development.
• Develop product concepts and prototypes and independently own and deliver key tasks associated with them.
• Partner with Product & Engineering 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 and external decision making.
• Foster innovation and new idea generation through Design Thinking workshops, Core Drives, Sandbox Challenges.
• Lead cross‑functional workshops and manage follow‑up actions to completion.
• Partner with CXD, Product and R&D teams by providing prioritized requirements.
• Work within a matrixed organization to influence and drive outcomes within tight timelines.

• Strong product development and management experience, including rapid opportunity identification, concept development, product requirements and user stories, business model innovation, and in‑market testing of global products is preferred.
• In‑depth understanding of payment ecosystem, flows and security solutions.
• Understanding of Cyber domain and prior experience in the space required.
• Previous experience working in Payments innovation space delivering new to‑market value propositions strongly preferred.
• Strong collaborator to move things at speed while managing ambiguity.
• Visionary and can connect the dots across domains.
• Strong analytical, verbal and written communication skills. Compelling storyteller, linking the dots to fit the broader Security Solutions and Mastercard narrative.
• Critical thinker that is comfortable with technical…