Manager, 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

Manager, Product DevelopmentOverview

At Mastercard, we connect and power an inclusive digital economy that benefits everyone, everywhere by making transactions safe, simple, smart, and accessible.

About the Role

Within Product Innovation in Authentication Services, we are building the future of secure and seamless digital authentication.

We are looking for a Manager, Product Development, to help explore new technologies and turn innovative ideas into working product concepts.
This is a highly technical, hands-on individual contributor role with no people-management responsibilities.

The role sits at the intersection of Product Engineering, Architecture, and Innovation, with a strong focus on designing solutions, building prototypes, validating technologies, and solving complex technical problems.

Key Responsibilities

• Explore emerging technologies and new authentication capabilities.
• Turn product ideas into technical designs and experiments.
• Build proof of concepts and prototypes to validate new ideas.
• Test technical assumptions around functionality, security, scalability, and performance.
• Define technical architectures for new authentication products and capabilities.
• Evaluate technologies, APIs, standards, and integration approaches.
• Identify technical risks, dependencies, and design trade-offs early.
• Ensure solutions align with Mastercard architecture, security, and platform principles.
• Write code and build working technical solutions.
• Experiment with APIs, platforms, standards, and emerging technologies.
• Build technical demonstrations that show how new product concepts could work.
• Troubleshoot complex problems across authentication, identity, security, and integration.
• Work closely with Product and Engineering teams to take concepts from idea to implementation.
• Provide technical and architectural guidance during product development.
• Help engineering teams solve complex technical challenges.
• Support the transition of successful prototypes into scalable product solutions.
• Research technology and industry trends relevant to authentication and digital identity.
• Identify opportunities for new products and technical capabilities.
• Identify potentially patentable ideas arising from technical innovation.
• Work with Legal and IP teams to support invention disclosures and patent filings.

Required Experience

• Strong background in software engineering, product engineering, solution architecture, or product architecture.
• Proven hands-on technical experience, including building software, prototypes, or proof of concepts.
• Experience with authentication, digital identity, cybersecurity, fraud, or related technologies.
• Ability to evaluate emerging technologies and understand how they can be applied to real products.
• Experience designing APIs, integrations, secure services, or distributed platforms.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.

Key Skills

• Strong software engineering and architecture skills.
• Knowledge of authentication, biometrics, MFA, identity, and risk-based authentication is a plus.
• Ability to move quickly from an idea to a working technical prototype.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Comfortable experimenting and working in ambiguous, early-stage environments.
• Ability to explain complex technical concepts simply.
• Strong collaboration skills across Product, Engineering, Architecture, Security, and other teams.

Why Mastercard?

• Work on globally impactful products used by millions of consumers and businesses every day
• Be part of a culture that values innovation, curiosity, and continuous learning
• Collaborate with world-class talent across product, engineering, security, and research
• Contribute directly to Mastercard’s long-term technology strategy and intellectual property portfolio

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.