MastercardPrincipal Analyst (Product Manager - Technical)
Mastercard is hiring a Principal Analyst (Product Manager - Technical) in Dublin, Ireland. Level rates it ; you can apply on Mastercard.
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Drive platform investments, portfolio intake, and capability-based planning as a Principal Technical Product Manager at Mastercard.
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
Principal Analyst (Product Manager - Technical)OverviewMastercard is seeking an experienced Principal Product Manager - Technical (PM-T) to help drive the evolution of the MIND platform.
This is a senior individual contributor role responsible for shaping platform investments, governing portfolio intake, driving capability-based planning, and partnering closely with Product Management, Architecture, and Engineering leaders. The successful candidate will work across multiple teams and domains to ensure demand is aligned with platform strategy, technical capabilities, and long-term architectural direction.
The ideal candidate combines deep technical product management expertise with strong analytical thinking and a bias for action. They are comfortable working directly with stakeholders, evaluating opportunities, making prioritisation recommendations, and influencing strategic decisions through data, technical understanding, and business context.
Role
In this position, you will:
• Partner with Product Managers to evaluate, shape, and prioritise product and technology investments across the platform.
• Lead portfolio intake activities, including demand assessment, capability mapping, dependency analysis, and prioritisation recommendations.
• Maintain and evolve the platform capability model, ensuring new initiatives are aligned to strategic capabilities and technology objectives.
• Identify opportunities for platform reuse, consolidation, standardisation, and technical simplification.
• Work closely with Architects and Engineering leaders to ensure portfolio decisions support long-term platform scalability, operability, and sustainability.
• Drive visibility and transparency of portfolio priorities, dependencies, investment decisions, and technology roadmaps.
• Act as a trusted adviser to Product, Technology, and Delivery leaders on platform investment and prioritisation decisions.
• Partner with PM-Ts across delivery pods to ensure consistent product management practices, alignment, and effective cross-domain planning.
• Champion understanding and adoption of platform capabilities across internal stakeholders.
• Facilitate discussions regarding trade-offs, dependencies, risks, and investment decisions across multiple teams and domains.
• Develop practical mechanisms, tools, and governance processes that improve portfolio execution and decision-making.
• Translate complex technical concepts into clear recommendations for senior leadership and business stakeholders.
All About You
• Significant experience as a Technical Product Manager, Principal PM-T, Platform Product Manager, or similar product leadership role.
• Deep understanding of software engineering, platform architecture, APIs, distributed systems, and modern product development practices.
• Experience operating across multiple engineering teams, products, or technology domains.
• Proven ability to drive prioritisation and investment decisions in complex, matrixed organisations.
• Strong understanding of platform strategy, capability modelling, portfolio management, and architecture-driven planning.
• Demonstrated ability to influence senior stakeholders without direct authority.
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to engage effectively with engineers, architects, product leaders, and executives.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with a data-driven approach to decision-making.
• Comfortable operating in ambiguous environments and independently driving clarity, alignment, and outcomes.
• Thrives as a hands-on individual contributor and is passionate about solving complex technology and platform challenges.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Business, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
What Success Looks Like
• Establish a transparent and effective intake and prioritisation process across the platform.
• Ensure demand is consistently aligned with platform strategy and capability investment priorities.
• Improve visibility of platform capabilities, dependencies, and investment opportunities.
• Increase adoption of reusable platform capabilities and reduce duplication across initiatives.
• Enable better investment decisions through capability-based planning and portfolio analysis.
• Become a trusted technical product leader across Product Management, Architecture, and Engineering organisations.
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.
How we rate this
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