Job description
Overview
Mastercard Labs for Financial Inclusion was setup in 2015 with initial funding from Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Our mandate is to design products focused on people living at the BOP that enables them to access relevant financial products, plan for the future, manage risk better and lead an empowered life.
Job Summary
Overall Responsibility is to manage the execution of product roadmaps. Specifically the role with entail the following key tasks.
Product Sales & Strategy – owns product roadmap and prioritizes building what matters most to achieve the strategic goals. In addition play an active role in acquiring new strategic customers.
Releases management – responsible for defining the release process and coordinating execution. Plan what engineering team will deliver including broken down use cases per sprint, and the timelines for implementation
Conduct new feature solution ideation – own the creative process of generating business requirements, documentation and determine which ideas transition to features based on the product strategy
Product Features prioritization – manages prioritization of features by ranking them against the strategic goals. Define the requirement for each feature and the desired user experience. Work with engineers to translate business requirement into technical specification.
Product competitive benchmarking – scout in the market for competing product and ensure that Labs offering out-competes its peers in the market.
Quality Assurance – conduct user acceptance tests for the released features and overall product to ensure consistency of quality on the technical output.
Product Technical Documentation – maintain an up to date business requirement & solution specification documents based on customer insights
Key Skills/Experience
Minimum of 5 years’ experience in managing digital products design, development and deployment. The product should either be in Agriculture, Education or Healthcare.
Minimum of 5 year experience on strategic digital product sale in Sub Saharan Africa and/or India
Minimum of 3 year experience in developing technical product documentation including Business Requirement Document, Use cases
Qualification
University Degree (or its equivalent) in IT or Software Engineering
Professional qualification as a product manager for digital solution
Mastercard is an inclusive Equal Employment 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.
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