Manager, Authentication Product Management-1

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

Manager, Authentication Product Management-1

Overview-Mastercard is seeking an experienced Product Manager to help drive the development
and adoption of digital payment credential solutions across Europe, with a particular focus on
the European Digital Identity Wallet (EUDI Wallet) ecosystem.
Role-This role will play a key part in shaping Mastercard's strategy and execution within
industry initiatives, pilot programs, and standards activities related to digital identity, authentication, and payments. The successful candidate will work across a broad network of internal and external stakeholders to define product strategies, support solution delivery, and drive industry collaboration.
In this product management position, you will: ·
• Support regional product strategies for Digital Payment Credentials and digital wallet solutions, particularly within the European Digital Identity Wallet ecosystem.
• Lead Mastercard's participation in strategic European digital identity and digital credential initiatives, supporting the end-to-end delivery of innovative payment and authentication use cases.
• Act as the primary point of contact for internal and external stakeholders on digital credential initiatives across Europe.
• Coordinate complex multi-stakeholder programs involving financial institutions, wallet providers, merchants, technology partners, regulators, and industry bodies.
• Define project scope, requirements, success criteria, implementation plans, testing activities, and delivery milestones.
• Manage partner onboarding, readiness assessments, implementation support, and ongoing stakeholder engagement.
• Collaborate with product, engineering, architecture, authentication, and user experience teams to deliver high-quality, user-centric solutions.
• Track risks, issues, dependencies, and key decisions across internal and external stakeholders, escalating where necessary.
• Monitor industry trends, emerging technologies, standards, and regulatory developments to inform product direction.
• Support Mastercard's go-to-market strategy for digital credential solutions through the development of internal and external thought leadership, educational materials, and market-facing content.
• Prepare executive updates and recommendations, clearly communicating progress, opportunities, risks, and strategic considerations.
All About You:
The ideal candidate for this position should have:
• Strong interest in digital identity, digital credentials, authentication technologies, and payments.
• Experience in product management, program/project management roles within payments, banking, fintech, technology, or digital identity ecosystems.
• Ability to understand and discuss technical concepts with engineering, architecture, and solution teams.
• Ability to navigate complex, multi-stakeholder environments involving internal teams, customers, partners, industry groups, and public-sector stakeholders.
• Strong leadership, influencing, and stakeholder management skills, including engagement with senior executives and external partners.
• Experience leading cross-functional initiatives and driving alignment across product, technology, business, legal, and operational teams.
• Ability to balance strategic thinking with hands-on execution and delivery.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to structure ambiguity and drive outcomes.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills, with the ability to explain complex topics clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Experience managing project plans, dependencies, risks, issues, and executive reporting.
• Understanding of the European regulatory landscape, including eIDAS 2.0, PSD2, PSD3, PSR, and their impact on digital identity, authentication, and payments.
• Comfortable working in an international environment with geographically distributed teams and partners.
• Master’s degree in engineering, Computer Science, Business Administration, Economics, or a related discipline.
• Fluency in English; additional European languages are an asset.
Nice to Have:
• Experience with European digital identity initiatives and wallet ecosystems.
• Familiarity with card payments, tokenization, strong customer authentication, EMV 3DS, or digital credential-based solutions.
• Experience participating in industry consortia, ecosystem partnerships, pilot programs, or standards-related initiatives.

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.