Senior Specialist, Product Development

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

Senior Specialist, Product Development

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.

OVERVIEW
Do you have a passion for startups and emerging technology, and possess an entrepreneurial spirit?

Are you motivated by a fast-paced environment where you would be a subject matter expert, a connector, and a leader with a reputation for impact?

Do you thrive leading highly visible, high impact initiatives with innovative partners?

Start Path is Mastercard’s award-winning fintech engagement team, working with elite fintechs across the world to drive business with Mastercard and with our customers. The Start Path team is agile, well-connected and has a big vision: to partner with the best fintechs across the payments ecosystem to build the future of commerce.

THE ROLE
This Emerging FinTech Senior Specialist, Product Development role will be supporting the Emerging Fintech team within Start Path in thesis-building for fast emerging categories, working directly with Mastercard product teams to understand their product roadmap and partnership needs, startup sourcing and selection efforts, managing the relationships with existing portfolio of Start Path companies, supporting partnership strategy across multiple fintech areas, and helping to build a powerful brand halo for Mastercard in the vibrant startup community.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

RRole:
Deliver the vision, mission, and execution of Start Path Emerging Fintech, including:
• Sourcing high-potential and strategic startups,
• Driving partnerships and engagements with selected startups for commercial and strategic outcomes
• Collaborating closely with product teams on developing partnership strategy.
• Track and analyze fast-emerging market trends in the start-up space, doing market landscaping, startup due diligence and bringing back key strategic insights in order to support the team in building investment hypotheses.
• Drive innovative commercial engagements with startups across a diverse set of areas including payments, banking, financial inclusion, sustainability, data analytics, and more.
• Advocate and evangelize the fintech strategy with internal and external stakeholders, including senior leadership at Mastercard, startups, venture capital firms, industry organizations, governments, and more.
• Liaise with Product teams across Mastercard on their product roadmaps and strategies to find opportunity for startup partnership
• Anticipate significant domestic and regional fintech trends while developing and modifying strategies to manage these trends.

Qualifications:
• Proven track-record working with startups - well-versed in the fintech, startup engagement and venture capital domains
• Strong experience in cross-functional collaboration – driving alignment across product and commercial teams to drive commercial outcomes
• Strategic understanding of and interest in payment industry evaluating trends & competitive landscape
• Strong project management experience - highly organized, meticulous attention to detail & experience executing multiple projects concurrently
• Comfortable in a fast-paced team environment

Mastercard is a merit-based, inclusive, equal opportunity employer that considers applicants without regard to gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, ethnicity, disabled or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. We hire the most qualified candidate for the role. In the US or Canada, if you require accommodations or assistance to complete the online application process or during the recruitment process, please contact reasonable_accommodation@mastercard.com and identify the type of accommodation or assistance you are requesting. Do not include any medical or health information in this email. The Reasonable Accommodations team will respond to your email promptly.

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.

In line with Mastercard’s total compensation philosophy and assuming that the job will be performed in Canada, the successful candidate will be offered a competitive pay based on location, experience and other qualifications for the role and may be eligible to participate in a discretionary annual incentive program. This posting reflects one or more current openings on our team.

Pay Ranges

Toronto, Canada: $94,000 - $138,000 CAD