Lead Product Manager - Technical

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Lead Product Manager – Technical

Mastercard is seeking a Lead Product Manager – Technical to join our AI & Decisioning Platform Enablement (AI & DPE) team. This role is ideal for a leader who thrives at the intersection of technology and product strategy and can translate complex technical capabilities into scalable business solutions. Within AI & DPE, Technical Product Managers (PM‑Ts) serve as trusted advisors, partnering with market‑facing product teams to enable their business goals through scalable AI and decisioning platform solutions.

PM‑Ts integrate expertise from architects, engineering PMs, and technical program managers to define and execute actionable roadmaps aligned to enterprise and product priorities. Beyond platform enablement and development, this role plays a critical part in articulating and promoting AI & DPE’s capabilities to product owners, integration teams, and business leadership. Success requires consistent messaging, cross‑initiative alignment, and clear visibility into AI & DPE’s contributions to Mastercard’s broader product strategy.

This is a hybrid position based in O’Fallon, MO, requiring three days per week onsite.

Serve as the primary liaison for AI & DPE across market‑facing product teams, business integration, and key business stakeholders. Elicit feedback, manage escalations, ensure transparency, and maintain clear, proactive stakeholder communications. Bridge AI & DPE business stakeholders with DMP technology teams to align platform roadmaps, internal product roadmaps, release plans, and prioritization decisions. Partner with product and technology teams to deliver measurable business value and position AI & DPE as a strategic, value‑add partner.

Collaborate with market‑facing product, business integration, and leadership teams to maintain visibility into multi‑year (2–3 year) demand and roadmap planning. Facilitate cross‑functional collaboration to explore emerging strategic objectives and innovative initiatives. Define, elaborate, and prioritize initiatives, including feasibility analysis, gating and approval processes, business case development, and data quality standards enforcement. Oversee work intake processes, including Level of Effort (LOE), Rough Order of Magnitude (ROM), and full business case estimation in partnership with Architecture, Engineering, UX, and TPMs.

Create and refine epics, develop Aha! solution delivery roadmaps, ensure scope alignment, and partner with TPMs on project planning, PI slotting, and execution oversight. Track delivery progress, manage risks, ensure value realization through demos, UAT, and feedback loops, and adjust roadmaps as scope or schedule evolves. Represent market‑facing product stakeholders in PI planning, participate in product councils, and support product development governance processes.

• Proven experience as a Product Manager or Product Leader with a focus on technical platforms, preferably within AI, data, or decisioning domains.
• Strong understanding of modern architectural and engineering practices (APIs, microservices, cloud‑native platforms, data ecosystems) with the ability to engage engineers at a detailed level.
• Demonstrated ability to align technical capabilities with business objectives to deliver measurable outcomes.
• Strong interest in emerging technologies, particularly AI, decisioning systems, and data platforms; direct experience with AI & DPE solutions preferred.
• Exceptional ability to communicate complex technical concepts clearly to both technical and non‑technical stakeholders.
• Comfortable managing competing priorities within a fast‑paced, matrixed…