Director, Digital Assets & Crypto - Product Management

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.

Director, Digital Assets & Crypto - Product Management

The world is shifting digital - and that shift is only accelerating. To bring solutions that help our financial institution, merchant and fintech partners navigate the ever-evolving digital payments landscape and new emerging technologies, we are seeking seasoned product manager. The Digital Assets - Product Manager will play a key role in North America Product organization with a focus on integrating Mastercard's network and payment products with the digital assets and digital currencies space.

The ideal candidate combines deep expertise in payments and product management with a strong grasp emerging trends in Digital Payments & Stablecoins. The individual will be a "go-to" contact for education, thought leadership, and regional product knowledge, and should understand the nuances of card networks, issuer, program managers, acquirer and merchant dynamics, be able to contextualize new trends within established payment frameworks.

In this role, the Director of Product Management will :

• Act as subject matter expert and represent the product portfolio in executive-level customer conversations, delivering clear, compelling narratives to stakeholders.
• Lead go-to-market (GTM) and regional development of innovative digital asset and tokenized payment solutions that have strategic fit and value to Mastercard's customers and partners, including evaluation of the business value of solution concepts for Mastercard and its customers
• Manage cross-functional teams, and internal stakeholders ranging from regional and global product teams, franchise, legal, sales and account management to ensure seamless execution throughout the product lifecycle, from readiness to deployment.
• Understand customer feedback and help translate that into actions that advance our products, go-to-market strategies and to inform ongoing enhancements and regional adaptations.
• Strong expertise in payments, digital commerce, and card issuance with demonstrated understanding of Stablecoins, the ability to bridge emerging technologies with traditional payment systems.
• Demonstrated understanding of blockchain infrastructure with immersion across the digital assets ecosystem, spanning emerging L1 / L2 networks, self-custodial wallets, and novel decentralized applications.
• Forward thinking, with ability to develop creative approaches to solve business situations
• Strong organizational agility and stakeholder management capabilities.
• Experience in digital payments and / or management consultancy with ability to develop strategic points of view

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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. Mastercard benefits for full time (and certain part time) employees generally include : insurance (including medical, prescription drug, dental, vision, disability, life insurance); flexible spending account and health savings account; 80 hours of Paid Sick and Safe Time, 25 days of vacation time and 5 personal days, pro-rated based on date of hire; S. observed holidays; fitness reimbursement or on-site fitness facilities; eligibility for tuition reimbursement; and on-site fitness facilities in some locations.