Director, Product Management – Data & Analytics
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Director, Product Management – Data & Analytics
Overview:
Job Description
Product Data & Analytics Team
Director – Product Management, Data
Overview
The Data & Analytics team builds internal analytic partnerships, strengthening focus on the health of the business, portfolio and revenue optimization opportunities, initiative tracking, new product development and Go-To Market strategies. We are a hands-on global team providing scalable end-to-end data solutions. Working closely with the business, we influence decisions across Mastercard through data driven insights. We are a team on analytics engineers, data architects, BI developers, data analysts and data scientists, and fully manage our own data assets and solutions.
The Data & Analytics team is looking for an experienced Director, Product Management to drive the strategic initiative to create a SSOT data platform for all transactional data assets within the organization. The ideal candidate is highly motivated, intellectually curious, analytical, and possesses an entrepreneurial mindset.
Role & Responsibilities
• Product Management of large and strategic data programs
• Support the execution of our strategic ADP initiative spanning multiple years, multiple stakeholders, geographies and multiple delivery and support partners.
• Build and maintain holistic views of the program/ portfolio that present both strategic as well current state.
• Leverage insights to influence priorities and roadmap feature development while advocating for and driving alignment between stakeholders in the development of acceptance criteria
• Own and prioritize the near-term product roadmap to deliver on business outcomes, quickly identifying points of leverage in complex problems or systems and utilizing data effectively to define success metrics and measurable outcomes.
• Collaborate across Product, Engineering, Architecture, Business Operations, Technology Operations, and other teams to ensure a single view of the program/ portfolio across the teams.
• Develop presentations meant for Senior and Executive Leadership level consumption, example- business cases, program overviews, roadmaps, strategic communications, strategic objectives and results etc.
• Operates between teams overseeing the gaps between teams, processes, and systems, while removing all blocking issues leading to a program outcome
• Work with vendors, partners and external 3rd party teams to drive results, make presentations, review scope, timelines etc.
• Act as a utility player who can work with equal eloquence with the teams on the ground as well as senior level stakeholders.
• Introduce leading indicators/ metrics that can predict outcomes of the program while enabling management decisions through program insights and key performance metrics.
• Engage with team members by creating a motivating work environment that recognizes, holds team members accountable, and rewards strong performance.
• Support the assignment of clear tasks and objectives and establish performance indicators for monitoring results versus objectives.
All About You
• Intellectually curious. You ask why, you explore, you are not afraid to share your ideas or follow through for weeks to find someone with an answer
• Experience playing a product role with exposure to data warehousing, analytics engineering, BI and experience managing large scale programs.
• Must have ability to communicate in detail with the technology teams as well as at a strategic level with the senior stakeholders.
• Must have prior experience building, implementing, and tracking plans for large and complex programs that span multi-year, multiple geographies and have multiple delivery and support partners.
• Must be able to think strategically and anticipate future consequences and trends and incorporate them into the organizational plans.
• Experience building strategic roadmaps for the programs to achieve their objectives.
• Excellent presentation and communication skills.
• Must have been responsible for delivery and engineering in the past and hence must come from a technology background.
• Must have great negotiation skills that help arrive at solutions with various competing stakeholders/ teams.
• Should be able to analyze trends, data and reports to come up with compelling solutions to complex problems.
• Must be able to identify, assess, track, and mitigate issues and risks at multiple levels.
• Experience managing complex cross-functional projects.
• Experience delivering presentations and engaging with senior leadership.
Education
Bachelor’s or Master’s Degree in a Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, M.S./M.B.A. preferred
Additional Competencies
• Excellent English, quantitative, technical, and communication (oral/written) skills.
• Analytical/Problem Solving
• Strong attention to detail and quality
• Creativity/Innovation
• Self-motivated, operates with a sense of urgency.
• Risk Mitigation
• Able to prioritize and perform multiple tasks simultaneously.
Compensation Pay Range
170,000.00 – 273,000.00 USD Annual