Lead Product Manager - Technical

Mastercard • O'fallon, MO

1d • Hybrid

About The Position

Mastercard is seeking a Lead Product Manager – Technical to join our AI & Decisioning Platform Enablement (AI & DPE) team. This role is ideal for a leader who thrives at the intersection of technology and product strategy and can translate complex technical capabilities into scalable business solutions. Within AI & DPE, Technical Product Managers (PM-Ts) serve as trusted advisors, partnering with market-facing product teams to enable their business goals through scalable AI and decisioning platform solutions. PM-Ts integrate expertise from architects, engineering PMs, and technical program managers to define and execute actionable roadmaps aligned to enterprise and product priorities. Beyond platform enablement and development, this role plays a critical part in articulating and promoting AI & DPE’s capabilities to product owners, integration teams, and business leadership. Success requires consistent messaging, cross-initiative alignment, and clear visibility into AI & DPE’s contributions to Mastercard’s broader product strategy. This is a hybrid position based in O’Fallon, MO, requiring three days per week onsite.

Requirements

• Proven experience as a Product Manager or Product Leader with a focus on technical platforms, preferably within AI, data, or decisioning domains.
• Strong understanding of modern architectural and engineering practices (APIs, microservices, cloud-native platforms, data ecosystems) with the ability to engage engineers at a detailed level.
• Demonstrated ability to align technical capabilities with business objectives to deliver measurable outcomes.
• Strong interest in emerging technologies, particularly AI, decisioning systems, and data platforms; direct experience with AI & DPE solutions preferred.
• Exceptional ability to communicate complex technical concepts clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Comfortable managing competing priorities within a fast-paced, matrixed organization.
• Strong leadership presence with experience coaching and mentoring Technical Product Managers.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Business, or a related field (or equivalent practical experience).

Responsibilities

• Serve as the primary liaison for AI & DPE across market-facing product teams, business integration, and key business stakeholders.
• Elicit feedback, manage escalations, ensure transparency, and maintain clear, proactive stakeholder communications.
• Bridge AI & DPE business stakeholders with DMP technology teams to align platform roadmaps, internal product roadmaps, release plans, and prioritization decisions.
• Partner with product and technology teams to deliver measurable business value and position AI & DPE as a strategic, value-add partner.
• Collaborate with market-facing product, business integration, and leadership teams to maintain visibility into multi-year (2–3 year) demand and roadmap planning.
• Facilitate cross-functional collaboration to explore emerging strategic objectives and innovative initiatives.
• Define, elaborate, and prioritize initiatives, including feasibility analysis, gating and approval processes, business case development, and data quality standards enforcement.
• Oversee work intake processes, including Level of Effort (LOE), Rough Order of Magnitude (ROM), and full business case estimation in partnership with Architecture, Engineering, UX, and TPMs.
• Create and refine epics, develop Aha! solution delivery roadmaps, ensure scope alignment, and partner with TPMs on project planning, PI slotting, and execution oversight.
• Track delivery progress, manage risks, ensure value realization through demos, UAT, and feedback loops, and adjust roadmaps as scope or schedule evolves.
• Represent market-facing product stakeholders in PI planning, participate in product councils, and support product development governance processes.

Benefits

• insurance (including medical, prescription drug, dental, vision, disability, life insurance)
• flexible spending account and health savings account
• paid leaves (including 16 weeks of new parent leave and up to 20 days of bereavement leave)
• 80 hours of Paid Sick and Safe Time, 25 days of vacation time and 5 personal days, pro-rated based on date of hire
• 10 annual paid U.S. observed holidays
• 401k with a best-in-class company match
• deferred compensation for eligible roles
• fitness reimbursement or on-site fitness facilities
• eligibility for tuition reimbursement

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level