Senior Specialist, Product Management - Commercial Connect API

Title And Summary

Senior Specialist, Product Management – Commercial Connect API

The Commercial Connect API is a modern platform enabling unified access to Mastercard’s commercial payment capabilities, including virtual cards, payment flows, entity operations, controls, data attributes, and reporting. As a Product Owner, you will translate the product vision defined by senior leadership into detailed functional requirements and drive delivery with engineering. This role is central to ensuring clarity, consistency, and high‑quality execution across a broad and technically complex API surface.

• Product Execution & Requirements
  • Translate leadership’s product direction into structured Epics, user stories, acceptance criteria, and workflow definitions.
  • Ensure requirements are complete, technically sound, and aligned to intended business outcomes.
  • Keep the backlog healthy, prioritized, and ready for development at all times.
• Engineering Collaboration
  • Work hand in hand with engineering to break down requirements, clarify edge cases, and support architectural feasibility.
  • Participate in refinement, sprint planning, and delivery ceremonies to maintain alignment and unblock development.
  • Validate delivered functionality through acceptance testing and close partnership with QA.
• Cross Team Alignment & Communication
  • Coordinate with commercialization, program managers, integrators, and customer‑facing teams to support testing, onboarding, and release activities.
  • Provide internal stakeholders and delivery partners with clear product explanations, workflows, and API behavior guidance.
  • Ensure documentation, change notes, and reference materials reflect current product capabilities.
• Quality, Risk & Release Support
  • Help ensure releases meet expected quality, performance, and reliability standards.
  • Identify risks, surface dependencies early, and support mitigation planning.
  • Assist in readiness for MTF and production releases, working with engineering and operations teams.

• 3+ years in product ownership, business analysis, or API‑focused product delivery.
• Ability to translate complex workflows into clear, testable requirements.
• Comfortable partnering deeply with engineering in Agile environments.
• Strong analytical thinking, written clarity, and stakeholder communication skills.
• Experience with APIs, data structures, or payments is a plus but not required.

• Backlog quality and readiness enable predictable engineering delivery.
• Features meet acceptance criteria with minimal rework or ambiguity.
• Releases are stable, well tested, and aligned to intended product direction.
• Cross‑functional teams view the PO as a reliable, detail‑oriented execution partner.
• Execution consistently supports leadership’s broader roadmap.

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 and identify the type of accommodation or assistance you are requesting.

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• 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 the US, the successful candidate will be offered a competitive base salary and may be eligible for an annual bonus or commissions depending on the role. The base salary offered may vary depending on multiple factors, including but not limited to location, job‑related knowledge,…