Principal Product Manager, Technical

Mastercard

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Work type
On-site
Location
O Fallon, MO
Salary
$156,000–$265,000 / yr
Posted
2 days ago
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Confirmed live yesterday

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Similar $205k
This role $210k
$138k most similar roles pay here $279k

This role pays more than 61% of similar roles. Most pay $173,193–$235,862 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $210k versus about $205k for comparable roles.

Based on 240 similar postings.

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About Mastercard

Mastercard is a global technology company in the payments industry, processing transactions between financial institutions and merchants using its extensive network of credit, debit, and prepaid card products. Industry: Payments Technology & Financial Services

Mastercard currently has 115 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $122,000–$207,000 across 102 roles with salary data.

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TL;DR · Principal Product Manager, Technical

The Principal Product Manager - Technical joins the Switching solutions program to develop platform visions and manage product roadmaps based on business needs and technology trends. This role involves decomposing requirements into features using the Working Backwards method, collaborating with developers and designers to define technical details, and managing the full product lifecycle from development to post-launch reviews. The candidate will oversee team-wide operations, lead junior PM-Ts, and manage escalations while making data-driven trade-off decisions for a portfolio of products. Required expertise includes cloud technologies like IaaS, PaaS, serverless, NoSQL databases, microservice design, API design, and distributed systems in a DevOps model. The role also requires proficiency in XP, TDD, BDD, agile methodologies such as Scrum and Kanban, and CI/CD to solve complex problems within the switching solutions domain.

What does a Product Manager earn?

Median $202662 from 402 postings across 73 companies.

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What you'll do

  • Develop platform and product visions based on business needs, market opportunities, and technology trends.
  • Decompose business requirements into specific features and functions to drive the product roadmap.
  • Manage trade-off decisions across a portfolio of products while balancing new feature requests against runtime metrics.
  • Identify and mitigate short-and-medium-term risks to platform development and segment adoption.
  • Analyze key performance indicators and use data-driven insights to resolve complex or ambiguous problems.
  • Lead test and learn experiments to identify innovations that increase customer value.
  • Oversee team-wide product operations and mentor junior Product Managers.
  • Manage escalations and coordinate with stakeholders to develop resolution plans for technical issues.

What we're looking for

  • Experience building complex business or transactional models in product line management, e-commerce, or strategic planning.
  • Proficiency with cloud technologies including IaaS, PaaS, serverless, NoSQL databases, and microservice design.
  • Expertise in API design, distributed systems operations in a DevOps model, and near real-time scalable fault-tolerant platform design.
  • Experience with software development processes including XP, TDD, and BDD.
  • Comprehensive experience in agile delivery methodologies such as Scrum and Kanban, along with CI/CD.
  • Proven ability to use hard data and metrics to back up assumptions and develop business cases.
  • Demonstrated ability to lead in a matrix environment while influencing executive leadership and engineering teams.
  • Ability to communicate complex technical information to executives, peers, and staff with impact and eloquence.

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