Director, Blockchain and Crypto

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, Blockchain and Crypto The Mastercard Blockchain and Crypto team, part of Mastercard’s global Core Payments division, is focused on the rapidly evolving blockchain technology and stable coins, related ecosystems and their impacts to consumers, merchants, and other market participants. The team leads the development, management, and commercialization of compliant crypto solutions with the goal of providing a wide range of payment products and value add services to our stakeholders and aligning closely with Mastercard’s multi-rail strategy and commitment to consumer choice.

The Blockchain and Crypto team is looking for a Director, Product Management to support the execution of Mastercard’s crypto roadmap by consistently innovating and collaborating with multi-functional teams worldwide. The individual will drive the development of key products and solutions, including focusing on enabling stable coins and its related uses cases on Mastercard’s network. The ideal candidate is passionate about the payments and the crypto space, has experience managing payment products and has working knowledge of B2B payments and card networks.

In this product management role you will,

• Work closely with customers, Mastercard global and regional teams and sales colleagues to engage in concept validation, business case development, financial modeling and planning for new products or enhancements
• Engage with treasury, franchise, legal, regulatory teams and external partners to build and launch capabilities and services for crypto transactions and settlement
• Partner with platform and engineering teams by providing a clear product vision, well-defined product roadmap and initiatives; define and prioritize product features
• Provide support to sales and customer facing teams with communication and training on product functionality and enhancements
• Provide support to other product and commercialization areas on the team as needed

• Strong interest in blockchain and crypto space
• Experience in the payments industry and ability to adapt new technologies to existing use cases; prior knowledge of payment networks and processing is a plus
• Knowledge of the card authorization, clearing and settlement process and systems is a plus
• Experience in product development and product management, including concept definition / validation, and business requirements definition
• Strong written and verbal communication skills; ability to communicate your vision and roadmap effectively to a wide variety of stakeholders
• Entrepreneurial attitude, self-starter, ability to work independently
• Strong analytical skills, problem solver with the ability to take thoughtful risks

Mastercard is a merit-based, inclusive, equal opportunity employer that considers applicants without regard to gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, ethnicity, disabled or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. We hire the most qualified candidate for the role.

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