Overview
• Responsible for developing inspiring platform/product visions, derived from business needs, market opportunities, and technology trends
• Using the Working Backwards method, decomposes business requirements and customer experiences into features and functions that drive the platform/product roadmap
• Works with Technical Program Managers, Developers, UX designers, and internal customers to define the details behind the business requirements
• Collects and shares user stories with engineering teams
• Acts as the voice of the business customer and accountable for the platform services
Responsibilities
• Sets the vision and direction for the platform design of assigned products
• Exhibits expertise across multiple platform products
• Builds tight connections to resources to drive overall strategy and teams inside your organization while influencing those outside your organization to deliver the expected results
• Identify short-and-medium-term risks to platform product development and segment adoption, while proposing solutions to address them
• Continuously monitors feature development and associated defects at the platform product level
• Use data to make decisions
• Continuously monitor and analyze key performance indicators on the organization’s score card and move them in a positive direction
• Makes trade-off decisions on multiple platform products in a portfolio
• Uses runtime metrics of their services in market as a feedback loop in to the backlog and balances the priorities against new feature requests
• Manage escalations, assess the alternative to resolve (path to green) and builds a plan for resolution
• Own and deliver on post-launch reviews and customer feedback, drives the associated actions, and incorporates feedback into the future launch plans
• Shares best practice with other Mastercard teams
• Engages with business customers to identify key platform product issues; solicits feedback on platform product roadmap
• Leverages data analysis skills to research difficult or ambiguous problems, leading cross-disciplinary teams where necessary and communicating recommendations to senior leadership
• Oversees team-wide product operations, leads junior PM-Ts who may own individual components, and coordinates team-wide improvement goals
• Represents Mastercard with external stakeholders for escalations and during strategic roadmap discussions
• Drives adoption of existing platform products into multiple marketplaces (in some cases simultaneously) with minimal engagement from leadership
• Identifies meaningful components of competitive analysis that informs decisions for the platform product portfolio and roadmaps
• Identifies innovations and leads test and learn experiments that create platform products that increase customer value of the platform product roadmap
• Participates in customer research with the business to gain end-to-end real-world understanding of customer needs and platform product value