Vice President, Transit Acceptance Product Management, Global Acceptance

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

Vice President, Transit Acceptance Product Management, Global Acceptance & Merchant SolutionsWho is Mastercard?
Mastercard is a global technology company in the payments industry. Our mission is 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. With connections across more than 210 countries and territories, we are building a sustainable world that unlocks priceless possibilities for all.

Overview
In partnership with regional teams and cross-functional partners around the globe, Global Acceptance Merchant Solutions works to expand merchant acceptance and help merchants and acquirers grow their businesses through Acceptance solutions and programs. At its essence, building acceptance is about driving the secular shift from cash to electronic payments, with the promise of giving consumers the best payment experience – one that's fast, convenient and secure.

The Vice President, Transit Acceptance Product Management will build Mastercard's innovative product portfolio for transit partners, embed Mastercard payment solutions within the transit ecosystem, and secure the role that Mastercard's card network will play in public transit and car commerce as these areas evolve in the years and decades to come. With effective leadership across a team of product managers and many cross-functional stakeholders, this individual will identify, prioritize, and execute product development initiatives that expand Mastercard acceptance in the transit space with new use cases, optimize transaction performance across our existing footprint, and create a step change in the incremental transactions Mastercard touches.

Responsibilities

• Build and execute on Mastercard's product strategy in the transit space, prioritizing existing needs of customers and channel partners, as well as the development of novel solutions that strengthen Mastercard's position in private and public transit segments

• Lead and inspire a high-performing team of product managers to meet Transit Acceptance objectives

• Provide transit ecosystem subject matter expertise, identifying product opportunities and informing product development priorities

• Establish strong connectivity with the community of internal peers focused in transit, engaging product teams and business owners, as well as regional market-facing teams and customers around the world to identify ecosystem needs

• Develop new innovative transit solutions that can scale and secure Mastercard's role in the transit ecosystem

• Oversee the modernization of network rules to support critical transit use cases and

• Deliver on projects in partnership with Franchise to ensure Mastercard's network rules meets the evolving needs of stakeholders (customers, channel partners, transit authorities, OEMs) in the mobility space

• Own and evolve transit acceptance priorities and project pipeline, ensuring delivery of relevant acceptance solutions and GTM assets which commercial teams use to create value and drive influence with transit vertical customers and partners

• Maintain partnerships with senior regional stakeholders to ensure alignment with global and regional transit product priorities

All About You

• Subject matter expert in the transit space

• History of commercializing solutions at scale for transit stakeholders (e.g. transit authorities, Mastercard customers, channel partners, OEMs, mobile wallet providers, etc.)

• Decision making and leadership skills including presenting to senior management

• Innovation mindset and market driven analysis to build the best offering

• Track record of strong people management

• Superior communications, presentation and interpersonal skills

• Ability to thrive in fast-paced environments; flexibility to handle rapidly changing scenarios

• Ability to work with ambiguity and manage complex projects; successfully manage multiple responsibilities and tasks

• Ability to execute on strategic direction and coordinate with team members

• Takes pride in the products they build

• Ability to work effectively in a highly matrixed organization

• Consultative problem-solving skills

• Has executive presence to work with senior leaders within Mastercard and with our customers and partners

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.

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