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 Specialist, Product Management Overview MasterCard Data & Services enables customers across industries and geographies to make smarter decisions and reach better outcomes with a tailored portfolio of solutions beyond the transaction. • We harness the power of real-time, anonymized, aggregated transaction data; powerful software platforms; and a wealth of expertise • We empower customers to make better data-driven decisions by unlocking a holistic view of consumer behavior beyond their four walls and distilling actionable insights from data • We work with financial institutions, retailers, telecommunications organizations, travel companies, and more MasterCard Data & Services is seeking an accomplished Product Specialist to support the delivery and evolution of its Business Intelligence products. These products are at the heart of a world-class analytics eco-system built on a universe of behavioral data. They help everyday business users to make smarter data-driven decisions which move the needle on business performance. Product Specialist in Insights & Analytics at Mastercard • Contribute to the development of analytics strategies and programs for regional and global clients by leveraging data and technology solutions to unlock client value • Provide creative input on projects across a range of industries and problem statements • Collaborate with Mastercard team to understand clients’ needs, agenda, and risks • Develop working relationship with client analysts/managers, and act as trusted and reliable partner • Translate a deep understanding of our customers into products and solutions that drive significant customer value • Set product direction with coordination, not isolation—taking into account how our products all work together to serve customer needs Role • Develop, upgrade and deliver scalable Business Intelligence products by understanding regional needs and tradeoffs that serve an array of customer segments • Independently identify trends, patterns, issues, and anomalies in defined area of analysis, and structure and synthesize own analysis to highlight relevant findings • Coordinate across cross-functional teams for product usage, solve challenges and continuous product enhancement • Support the product strategy including such as distribution of reporting products through the platforms • Work with the Global Product Management team to prioritize development efforts as they align against product strategy • Build strong working relationships with a diverse group of internal and external stakeholders to achieve product goals All About You • Undergraduate degree with data and analytics experience in business intelligence and/or descriptive, predictive, or prescriptive analytics • Leverage diverse analytic tools (SQL, etc.) for end-to-end ownership of delivering scaled analytic products • Data and analytics experience in building, managing, and maintaining database structures, working with data visualization tools (e.g., Power BI & Tableau), and working with Hadoop framework and coding using Impala, Hive, or PySpark • Ability to analyze large datasets and synthesize key findings to provide recommendations via descriptive analytics and business intelligence • Strategic mind set to solve complex and ambiguous problems • Keen understanding of competitive offerings and industry trends in the market • Understand the self-service analytics space, and the ability to translate that understanding into meaningfu