Principal, Product Management - Technical
Mastercard
- Dublin
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Understand the business strategy and develop technical approaches to match it, maximizing scalability and business impact
- Leverage best practices and capabilities for onboarding within Mastercard and bring in new capabilities where required
- Define SPOTS’s place within the Mastercard customer- and product-onboarding ecosystem
- Continuously raise the bar on the capabilities and impact of the SPOTS platform
- Develop and maintain logical architectures of the current and future states, and design interim phases for the platform to support iterative delivery
- Develop technical architectures along with engineering leaders, detailing how the SPOTS platform will interact with other Mastercard systems
- Lead the creation and maintenance of the product backlog, elaborating epics into features and stories, prioritizing work, and identifying and mitigating risks
- Lead development of testing, acceptance criteria, and measurable outcomes for releases
- Develop product health measurements and feedback mechanisms to measure success and inform development prioritization
- Guide the engineering teams to work through blockers and key technical trade offs to maintain development velocity and deliver impact
- Strong track record of successful delivery of product features from design, development, deployment, and customer integration with experience launching high-quality products in the payments industry.
- Understands and can explain the business context and the associated Customer and end-user pain points as well as the use cases, bringing this to life for scrum teams.
- Experience with Lean product management principles and practices and preferably with Mastercard’s Studio process. Can deliver high quality technology products/services in a high growth environment where priorities shift rapidly.
- Experience in agile delivery methodologies (scrum, Kanban, etc.), CI/CD and modern DevOps based PDLC and SDLC.
- Proficient at grooming user stories, features, and epics, setting entrance/exit criteria and prioritizing a product backlog.
- Data driven – ability to define measurable and SMART leading and lagging metrics for all backlog items to enable decisions and priority.
- Constantly learning, seeking out technical knowledge and educating the entire organization about trends, technologies, and approaches
- Takes the time to fully learn the functionality, architecture, dependencies, and runtime properties of the systems supporting the products.
- Experience directing junior PMTs
- Highly structured and organized with the ability to plan work to maximize the team's productivity and effectiveness.