Director, Product Management- DCP Platform Operations

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, Product Management- DCP Platform Operations

The Services team and solutions fuel growth for partners globally by providing cutting edge services in the areas of Customer Acquisition and Engagement, Security Solutions, Business and Market Insights, and Open Banking. Focused on thinking big and scaling fast, our agile sales team is responsible for end-to-end solutions for a diverse global customer base including retailers, airlines, hotels, tourism agencies, public sector entities, restaurants, consumer goods and telecom companies.

The Director, Product Management- DCP Platform Operations role is responsible for scaling adoption, improving customer experience, and operationalizing product excellence for the Data Commercialization Platform (DCP) —an enterprise, cloud-native data platform enabling analytics, AI/ML, and data-driven products across the organization.

This role focuses on how the platform is experienced, adopted, and used at scale by internal customers, ensuring frictionless onboarding, clear documentation, effective feedback loops, and continuous improvement of the end-to-end platform experience.

The Director, Product Operations acts as the connective tissue between Product Management, Engineering, Customer/Developer Enablement, and Platform Users, ensuring insights from real usage and customer feedback consistently inform roadmap decisions and platform evolution.

About the Role:
1. Voice of Customer (VoC) & Product Feedback
• Own the Voice of Customer strategy for the Data Commercialization Platform.
• Establish structured mechanisms to capture customer feedback, including:
o User interviews and listening sessions
o Surveys (NPS, CSAT, CES)
o Usage analytics and behavioral insights
o Support tickets and issue trends
• Synthesize qualitative and quantitative feedback into clear insights and themes.
• Translate customer insights into actionable inputs for Product Management and Engineering.
2. Platform Adoption & Customer Onboarding
• Own the end-to-end onboarding experience for new platform customers (product teams, data scientists, analysts, commercial users).
• Design and scale onboarding assets such as:
o Getting started guides
o Reference architectures
o Sample pipelines and notebooks
o Environment setup checklists
• Partner with Product and Engineering to reduce time-to-first-value.
• Track onboarding effectiveness and continuously optimize adoption journeys.
3. Enablement, Documentation & Self-Service
• Own platform enablement strategy, ensuring customers can self-serve with confidence.
• Establish and maintain high-quality:
o FAQs and knowledge bases
o Platform documentation and playbooks
o Best-practice guides and standards
o Release notes and change communications
• Ensure documentation is:
o Discoverable
o Role-appropriate (PM, engineer, data scientist, analyst)
o Continuously updated as the platform evolves
• Drive adoption of self-service capabilities to reduce support burden.
4. Platform Experience & Operational Excellence
• Define and measure platform experience metrics, including:
o Adoption and activation rates
o Engagement and retention
o Time-to-value
o Support volume and resolution trends
• Identify friction points in the customer journey and drive cross-functional improvements.
• Ensure platform launches are operationally ready from a customer perspective (docs, enablement, comms).
5. Cross-Functional Partnership
• Act as the primary partner to:
o Product Management for customer insights and experience improvements
o Engineering for usability and operability feedback
o Program Management for readiness and rollout coordination
• Ensure customer needs are represented in platform operating rhythms without owning delivery mechanics.
• Influence roadmap discussions through evidence-based customer insights, not prioritization authority.
6. Change Management & Communication
• Own customer-facing change management for the platform.
• Ensure customers are informed, trained, and prepared for:
o New capabilities
o Deprecations or breaking changes
o Behavioral or process shifts
• Create clear, consistent communication channels and messaging.

All About You:
• Experience in Product Operations, Platform Enablement, Product Management, or Developer roles.
• Experience supporting enterprise data platforms or developer-centric platforms.
• Strong understanding of modern data ecosystems (cloud, lakehouse, analytics, AI/ML).
• Expertise in:
o Voice of Customer programs
o Product analytics and usage insights
o Documentation and enablement at scale
• Ability to translate complex technical capabilities into clear, consumable guidance.
• Customer-obsessed mindset with strong empathy for technical and non-technical users.
• Exceptional communication and storytelling skills.
• Strong cross-functional influence without direct authority.
• Systems thinker who understands how experience, adoption, and outcomes connect.
• Comfortable operating in ambiguity and scaling processes in fast-evolving platforms.

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 reasonable_accommodation@mastercard.com 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.

In line with Mastercard’s total compensation philosophy and assuming that the job will be performed in the US, the successful candidate will be offered a competitive base salary and may be eligible for an annual bonus or commissions depending on the role. The base salary offered may vary depending on multiple factors, including but not limited to location, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Mastercard benefits for full time (and certain part time) employees generally include: insurance (including medical, prescription drug, dental, vision, disability, life insurance); flexible spending account and health savings account; paid leaves (including 16 weeks of new parent leave and up to 20 days of bereavement leave); 80 hours of Paid Sick and Safe Time, 25 days of vacation time and 5 personal days, pro-rated based on date of hire; 10 annual paid U.S. observed holidays; 401k with a best-in-class company match; deferred compensation for eligible roles; fitness reimbursement or on-site fitness facilities; eligibility for tuition reimbursement; and many more. Mastercard benefits for interns generally include: 56 hours of Paid Sick and Safe Time; jury duty leave; and on-site fitness facilities in some locations.

Pay Ranges

O'Fallon, Missouri: $156,000 - $265,000 USD