Senior Product Manager - Technical

The Senior Product Manager - Technical role at Mastercard partners with product managers to translate customer and business needs into technical stories and features. You will shape the product backlog, support Agile execution, and help ensure delivery work is testable and shippable for development teams.

Location

O'Fallon, MO (onsite).
Pay range: $104,000 - $177,000 USD per year.

Salary and Education

• Salary: USD 104,000 - 177,000 yearly
• Education: BS or MS in Computer Science

What You’ll Do

• Meet with product managers to discuss and elicit needs, translating them into features, user stories, and technical stories.
• Facilitate story mapping sessions to help product managers visualize and prioritize work.
• Groom and prioritize the product backlog to ensure readiness for the development teams.
• Facilitate backlog grooming sessions by clarifying the what and why of each user story, enabling the dev team to define the how.
• Create features and stories aligned to product increments, with a focus on delivering work that is individually testable and shippable.

Required Experience and Skills

• Experience as a business analyst managing work across multiple squads.
• Extensive experience using Agile tools (JIRA, ALM, Kanban) to support Agile ceremonies.
• Proven success in systems architecture or design, including managing complex projects, scoping multiple work streams, and working across multiple teams and geographies.
• Relevant experience gathering requirements, including user story creation and relationship building with business clients.
• Ability to collaborate with team members to ideate appropriate design solutions.
• Strong writing and verbal communication skills, including the ability to communicate vision and roadmap to a wide range of stakeholders.
• Consistent problem-solving mindset, including looking for potential solutions to solve problems.
• Certified Product Owner (CPO).
• Experience facilitating Agile workshops focused on feature definition and prioritization.
• Experience using story mapping to define business value increments and break stories down to the smallest value increment.
• Experience breaking stories down into 1-2 increments to support CI/CD principles.

Agile Tools and Technologies

• JIRA
• ALM
• Kanban
• CI/CD

Benefits

• Competitive base salary and potential annual bonus or commissions depending on the role.
• Insurance coverage including medical, prescription drug, dental, vision, disability, and life insurance.
• Flexible spending account and health savings account.
• Paid leaves including 16 weeks of new parent leave and up to 20 days of bereavement leave.
• 80 hours of Paid Sick and Safe Time, 25 days of vacation time, and 5 personal days (pro-rated based on date of hire).
• 10 annual paid U.S. observed holidays.
• 401k with a best-in-class company match.
• Deferred compensation for eligible roles.
• Fitness reimbursement or on-site fitness facilities.
• Eligibility for tuition reimbursement.
• Many more.
• Interns: 56 hours of Paid Sick and Safe Time.
• Jury duty leave.
• On-site fitness facilities in some locations.

Corporate Security Responsibilities

• Abide by Mastercard’s security policies and practices.
• Ensure the confidentiality and integrity of information being accessed.
• Report any suspected information security violation or breach.
• Complete all periodic mandatory security trainings in accordance with Mastercard’s guidelines.