Job Description

Our Purpose

We work to connect and power an inclusive, digital economy that benefits everyone, everywhere by making transactions safe, simple, smart and accessible. Using secure data and networks, partnerships and passion, our innovations and solutions help individuals, financial institutions, governments and businesses realize their greatest potential. Our decency quotient, or DQ, drives our culture and everything we do inside and outside of our company. We cultivate a for all employees that respects their individual strengths, views, and experiences. We believe that our differences enable us to be a better team \xe2\x80\x93 one that makes better decisions, drives innovation and delivers better business results.

Title and Summary

Data Product Manager, APAC Region - IDS20010

Overview
The Identity Verification Data Strategy team is looking for a Data Product Manager to drive data performance and new data products in the APAC region. The ideal candidate is energized by solving challenging technical and business problems and is experienced partnering with cross-functional teams, both internally and externally, in the APAC region. This role requires a highly motivated and intellectually curious person who can drive a long-term strategy to completion. The program outcomes are well defined but the execution plan is not. This role will pioneer new ways to use data in the region and impact customers around the globe.

Responsibilities

• Plan and manage initiatives from inception through successful delivery to impact data and product performance for our APAC customers
• Independently identify and research anomalous performance within the data portfolio and partner with the relevant engineering or data science team to develop solutions
• Deeply understand the products that your data powers and address product issues by debugging data flows, troubleshooting with data providers, and communicating findings with market-facing teams
• Develop creative solutions to work with non-traditional data partners and data types by partnering with the product and engineering teams
• Serve as a technical expert and share specialist knowledge to cross-functional teams to advise business partners on APAC data-related issues
• Manage data sourcing strategy and roadmap to improve data performance while optimizing costs
• Identify, collect, synthesize and communicate risks and blockers in a concise, accurate, and professional manner for senior leadership to ensure alignment based on evolving priorities

Requirements

• Experience working with data brokers and data vendors in Southeast Asia
• Background in technical product management or adjacent engineering/data-focused role with decisive business outcomes
• Ability to travel for business within Southeast Asia a few times a year
• Clear written and oral communication across the corporate hierarchy
• Experience working with complex data flows and architectures, demonstrating an ability to influence engineering roadmaps to improve products
• Creativity in solving technical and business problems and a desire to explore diverse options to enable revenue growth
• Track record of managing multiple parallel initiatives to drive the overall program strategy
• Extensive experience developing and nurturing relationships, serving as the main point of contact for internal and external stakeholders
• Ability to incorporate feedback from cross-functional stakeholders in Legal, Data Privacy, Finance, Product, and Sales to identify the right data partners and prioritize the most impactful projects
• Demonstrated success building relationships and delivering results with global, multi-cultural, and remote project teams

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\xe2\x80\x99s 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\xe2\x80\x99s guidelines.

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