Product Manager Technical

Our Purpose

We work 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, or DQ, drives our culture and everything we do inside and outside of our company. We cultivate a

culture of inclusion

for all employees that respects their individual strengths, views, and experiences. We believe that our differences enable us to be a better team - one that makes better decisions, drives innovation and delivers better business results.

Job Title

Product Manager Technical - II

Overview
- The Decision Management program enables intelligent decision based products through streaming analytics with the ability to govern these decisions and manage their outcomes with business agility.
- This program leverages business rules & AI engines, a streaming big data cluster, an in memory data grids, APIs, & UIs to deliver real time decisions at global scale
- This person will be responsible for mentoring the team as well as stay hands on.

We are looking for a Product Manager - Technical (PMT) to join our DMP team in Vancouver office.
- Have you specified systems requirements for a technical system in the card payment industry?
- Are you passionate about making a difference in this world?
- Do you want to be part of a team which helps prevent fraud on every Mastercard transaction in this world?

Role
- The PMT will own all backlog items (user stories, features, defects) for the scrum team.
- Translating product roadmap initiatives and business requirements (features) requests into workflow diagrams, epics, functional requirements(user stories) with acceptance criteria.
- Collaborate with software engineers (developers) to promote user story comprehension including estimates.
- Collaborate with quality engineers to ensure and capture acceptance criteria.
- Help the team regularly prioritize backlog items (features, user stories, defects) and evaluate critical path to ensure on time delivery.
- Taking ownership and ensuring the delivery of the component/features developed.
- Facilitate regular scrum cadence such as release planning, iteration planning, retrospectives.
- Has the aptitude to quickly learn and contribute to our complex platform.
- Understanding design, business logic and technical architecture of different component and their interactions with the platform.
- Understand technical implications and impacts of requirement requests.
- Identifying and coordinating cross-component dependencies throughout the development lifecycle.
- Provide regular comprehensive status updates to corresponding stakeholders and leadership.

All About you

Essential Knowledge/Experience
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Ability to communicate effectively with other PMT's, development teams and the Core Product business teams
- Able to work independently with mínimal supervision
- Experience with agile & waterfall development methodologies
- Display high degree of initiative & self-motivation with a willingness and ability to learn and take on challenging opportunities
- High energy, detail-oriented and proactive with the ability to function under pressure in an independent environment
- Able to document and understand business process models
- Knowledge and experience of data modelling techniques
- Payment industry knowledge

What we offer in return includes a beautiful view of the North Shore mountains, coffee that doesn’t stink, and colleagues that are as brilliant as they are likeable. We do cool things as a team including monthly craft beer tastings. Don’t forget the competitive salary, extended health benefits, flex-time schedules, and encouragement and support for professional development. We love it here, and we think you will too.

Corporate Security Responsibility

All activities involving access to Mastercard assets, information, and networks comes with an inherent risk to the organization and, therefore, it is expected that every person working for, or on behalf of, Mastercard is responsible for information security and must:

- Abide by Mastercard’s security policies and practices;
- Ensure the confidentiality and integrity of the information being accessed;
- Report any suspected information security violation or breach, and
- Complete all periodic mandatory security trainings in accordance with Mastercard’s guidelines.