Mastercard Incorporated Hiring for Director, Product Development at Dubai Full Time

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Director, Product Development – Cross Border Payments

locationsDubai, United Arab Emirates time typeFull time posted onPosted Today job requisition idR-205503 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 – one that makes better decisions, drives innovation and delivers better business results.

Title and Summary

Director, Product Development – Cross Border Payments*Researches and analyses market trends on cross border payments, cross border corridors, payment types to develop and support product go to market strategy and providing data to support customers in building of business cases relevant to the product.

Researches new technologies and competitive products to develop additional product ideas and enhancements.
Performs launch-related activities associated with new or highly customized product implementations, including marketing/communication and collateral.

Defines business and technical requirements and manages the relationships of technical resources and the Global Technology Organization to maintain and build out platforms.

Analyses post launch KPIs and provides consulting to customer as well as product development team to improve KPIs linked to product evolution and product usage

Major Accountabilities:

• Participate in the execution of product strategies
• Contribute to the development of new products and product enhancements to meet customers’ needs
• Follow the New Product Development/Go-To-Market (NPD/GTM) Process for assigned areas of responsibility
• Participate in assigned phases of the product development life cycle which may range from concept to launch
• Enhance the development of the product value proposition
• Participate in the planning, development and design of product marketing strategy and in the execution of advertising, promotional and sales programs
• Coordinate activities with client facing teams, internal development teams, third parties and/or joint ventures

Education:

• Bachelor’s degree in business or equivalent

Work experience

Knowledge / Experience:

• prior related work experience in products/systems development, execution planning and project management, preferably in financial services or banking industry
• Knowledge of product development operations
• Experience in banking/financial operations highly desirable
• At least 2 years of management experience preferred

Skills/ Abilities:

• Ability to apply product development concepts and practices across the product development life cycle
• Solid understanding of the payments industry with an ability to identify viable solutions to business problems
• Business acumen coupled with a strong customer focus and analytical skills
• Advanced verbal and written communication skills including presentation skills
• Ability to interact effectively at all levels and team with internal and external business partners
• Interpersonal skills and the ability to work collaboratively in a highly matrixed organization

Work Conditions:

• limited domestic/international travel required*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.

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