Job Title:
Product Owner - Commercial Connect API
Overview:
Role Overview
The Commercial Connect API is a modern platform enabling unified access to Mastercard's commercial payment capabilities, including virtual cards, payment flows, entity operations, controls, data attributes, and reporting.
As a Product Owner, you will execute the product vision defined by senior leadership by converting strategy into detailed functional requirements and driving delivery with engineering. This role is central to ensuring clarity, consistency, and high quality execution across a broad and technically complex API surface.
Key Responsibilities
Product Execution & Requirements
• Translate leadership's product direction into structured Epics, user stories, acceptance criteria, and workflow definitions.
• Ensure requirements are complete, technically sound, and aligned to intended business outcomes.
• Keep the backlog healthy, prioritized, and ready for development at all times.
Engineering Collaboration
• Work hand in hand with engineering to break down requirements, clarify edge cases, and support architectural feasibility.
• Participate in refinement, sprint planning, and delivery ceremonies to maintain alignment and unblock development.
• Validate delivered functionality through acceptance testing and close partnership with QA.
Cross Team Alignment & Communication
• Coordinate with commercialization, program managers, integrators, and customer facing teams to support testing, onboarding, and release activities.
• Provide internal stakeholders and delivery partners with clear product explanations, workflows, and API behavior guidance.
• Ensure documentation, change notes, and reference materials reflect current product capabilities.
Quality, Risk & Release Support
• Help ensure releases meet expected quality, performance, and reliability standards.
• Identify risks, surface dependencies early, and support mitigation planning.
• Assist in readiness for MTF and production releases, working with engineering and operations teams.
Qualifications
• 3+ years in product ownership, business analysis, or API-focused product delivery.
• Ability to translate complex workflows into clear, testable requirements.
• Comfortable partnering deeply with engineering in Agile environments.
• Strong analytical thinking, written clarity, and stakeholder communication skills.
• Experience with APIs, data structures, or payments is a plus but not required.
Success Measures
• Backlog quality and readiness enable predictable engineering delivery.
• Features meet acceptance criteria with minimal rework or ambiguity.
• Releases are stable, well tested, and aligned to intended product direction.
• Cross functional teams view the PO as a reliable, detail oriented execution partner.
• Execution consistently supports leadership's broader roadmap.
To find US Salary Ranges, visit People Place. Under the Compensation tab, select "Salary Structures." Within the text of "Salary Structures," click on the link "salary structures 2025," through which you will be able to access the salary ranges for each Mastercard job family. For more information regarding US benefits, visit People Place and review the Benefits tab and the Time Off & Leave tab.
Product Owner - Commercial Connect API
Overview:
Role Overview
The Commercial Connect API is a modern platform enabling unified access to Mastercard's commercial payment capabilities, including virtual cards, payment flows, entity operations, controls, data attributes, and reporting.
As a Product Owner, you will execute the product vision defined by senior leadership by converting strategy into detailed functional requirements and driving delivery with engineering. This role is central to ensuring clarity, consistency, and high quality execution across a broad and technically complex API surface.
Key Responsibilities
Product Execution & Requirements
• Translate leadership's product direction into structured Epics, user stories, acceptance criteria, and workflow definitions.
• Ensure requirements are complete, technically sound, and aligned to intended business outcomes.
• Keep the backlog healthy, prioritized, and ready for development at all times.
Engineering Collaboration
• Work hand in hand with engineering to break down requirements, clarify edge cases, and support architectural feasibility.
• Participate in refinement, sprint planning, and delivery ceremonies to maintain alignment and unblock development.
• Validate delivered functionality through acceptance testing and close partnership with QA.
Cross Team Alignment & Communication
• Coordinate with commercialization, program managers, integrators, and customer facing teams to support testing, onboarding, and release activities.
• Provide internal stakeholders and delivery partners with clear product explanations, workflows, and API behavior guidance.
• Ensure documentation, change notes, and reference materials reflect current product capabilities.
Quality, Risk & Release Support
• Help ensure releases meet expected quality, performance, and reliability standards.
• Identify risks, surface dependencies early, and support mitigation planning.
• Assist in readiness for MTF and production releases, working with engineering and operations teams.
Qualifications
• 3+ years in product ownership, business analysis, or API-focused product delivery.
• Ability to translate complex workflows into clear, testable requirements.
• Comfortable partnering deeply with engineering in Agile environments.
• Strong analytical thinking, written clarity, and stakeholder communication skills.
• Experience with APIs, data structures, or payments is a plus but not required.
Success Measures
• Backlog quality and readiness enable predictable engineering delivery.
• Features meet acceptance criteria with minimal rework or ambiguity.
• Releases are stable, well tested, and aligned to intended product direction.
• Cross functional teams view the PO as a reliable, detail oriented execution partner.
• Execution consistently supports leadership's broader roadmap.
To find US Salary Ranges, visit People Place. Under the Compensation tab, select "Salary Structures." Within the text of "Salary Structures," click on the link "salary structures 2025," through which you will be able to access the salary ranges for each Mastercard job family. For more information regarding US benefits, visit People Place and review the Benefits tab and the Time Off & Leave tab.