Director, Mastercard Commerce Media - Product Development

Job Description

Our Purpose

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.

Title and Summary

Director, Mastercard Commerce Media - Product Development We're seeking a visionary Product Development Director to shape the future of commerce-driven advertising. In this role, you'll lead the development of innovative solutions within Mastercard Commerce Media, our rapidly growing platform that connects brands and publishers to deliver smarter, data-driven advertising experiences.
You'll spearhead new product initiatives with a strong focus on product development and strategic partnerships. A key part of your remit will be building and managing publishing partnerships, ensuring our ecosystem delivers maximum value for advertisers and publishers alike.
This is a unique opportunity to blend deep product management expertise with commercial acumen - driving outcomes that transform how businesses engage consumers. As part of a global team, you'll work at the intersection of payments, media, and technology, leveraging Mastercard's trusted network and rich insights to create products that redefine performance marketing.
If you thrive in fast-paced environments, excel at building external relationships, and want to shape the next generation of commerce media, we'd love to hear from you.
Role Overview
We're looking for a dynamic Product Development Director to lead new product initiatives with a focus on adtech integrations and strategic partnerships. This role blends deep product management expertise with the ability to manage external relationships, drive commercial outcomes, and deliver scalable solutions.
Key Responsibilities

- Manage strategic partnerships across the sales cycle-from initial engagement and co-creation to contracting, onboarding, and delivery.

- Support and influence the end-to-end product lifecycle, with a focus on adtech-enabled solutions.

- Drive customer discovery, market validation, and competitive analysis to inform product direction.

- Develop compelling business cases, go-to-market strategies, and stakeholder materials.

- Build strong working relationships with a diverse group of internal and external stakeholders.

- Act as connector to ensure commercial and technological success of our products by working with cross-functional teams.

- Lead go-to-market planning, including pricing, positioning, and channel strategy.

- Collaborate with engineering, design, CX&D, and data teams to prototype and iterate on new offerings.

- Develop and execute product strategies that leverage Mastercard's assets and partner capabilities.

- Prepare executive briefings, reports, and presentations for internal and external stakeholders.

- Respond to what the business needs. Execute on urgent needs, be a sounding board for team members, serve as a connection point for incoming (and outgoing) team requests.

- Report on team and product performance metrics by implementing governance structures.
Qualifications

- 8+ years in product management

- Adtech experience essential

- Proven success in partnering with external organizations to co-develop and launch products.

- Strong understanding of digital advertising ecosystems

- Strategic thinker with ability to quickly assess complex problems, prioritize key issues, focus on relevant facts, and execute a plan.

- Experience managing sales cycles, partner onboarding, and product delivery in complex environments.

- Excellent communication, presentation and stakeholder management skills.
What You'll Bring

- A strategic mindset with a bias for action.

- A passion for emerging tech and data-driven innovation.

- A collaborative approach to building with partners and internal teams.

- A track record of delivering commercial impact through product innovation. 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 and identify the type of accommodation or assistance you are requesting. Do not include any medical or health information in this email. The Reasonable Accommodations team will respond to your email promptly.

Corporate Security Responsibility

All activities involving access to Mastercard assets, information, and networks comes with an inherent risk to the organization and, therefore, it is expected that every person working for, or on behalf of, Mastercard is responsible for information security and must:

• 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.