Product Owner – Commercial Connect API

Mastercard • Atlanta, GA

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About The Position

The Commercial Connect API is a modern platform enabling unified access to Mastercard’s commercial payment capabilities, including virtual cards, payment flows, entity operations, controls, data attributes, and reporting. As a Product Owner, you will execute the product vision defined by senior leadership by converting strategy into detailed functional requirements and driving delivery with engineering. This role is central to ensuring clarity, consistency, and high quality execution across a broad and technically complex API surface.

Requirements

• 3+ years in product ownership, business analysis, or API-focused product delivery.
• Ability to translate complex workflows into clear, testable requirements.
• Comfortable partnering deeply with engineering in Agile environments.
• Strong analytical thinking, written clarity, and stakeholder communication skills.

Nice To Haves

• Experience with APIs, data structures, or payments is a plus but not required.

Responsibilities

• Translate leadership’s product direction into structured Epics, user stories, acceptance criteria, and workflow definitions.
• Ensure requirements are complete, technically sound, and aligned to intended business outcomes.
• Keep the backlog healthy, prioritized, and ready for development at all times.
• Work hand in hand with engineering to break down requirements, clarify edge cases, and support architectural feasibility.
• Participate in refinement, sprint planning, and delivery ceremonies to maintain alignment and unblock development.
• Validate delivered functionality through acceptance testing and close partnership with QA.
• Coordinate with commercialization, program managers, integrators, and customer facing teams to support testing, onboarding, and release activities.
• Provide internal stakeholders and delivery partners with clear product explanations, workflows, and API behavior guidance.
• Ensure documentation, change notes, and reference materials reflect current product capabilities.
• Help ensure releases meet expected quality, performance, and reliability standards.
• Identify risks, surface dependencies early, and support mitigation planning.
• Assist in readiness for MTF and production releases, working with engineering and operations teams.

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
• Education Level: No Education Listed