Manager, Product Innovation & Strategy, Foundry

Mastercard
Toronto
Workplace: OnsiteFull timeCAD 121,000 - 169,000 annuallyFunction: Strategy & Corporate DevelopmentSkills: ["Communication","Analytical thinking","Critical thinking","Cross-functional collaboration","Workshop facilitation"]

Lead new product initiatives for Mastercard Foundry across the Business & Market Insights and Open Finance groups, moving concepts from idea to commercialization. You’ll drive customer discovery, market testing, and prototype/product concept development, partnering with Product, Engineering, and Customer Experience & Design to validate solutions. Own business case development and high-quality decision materials, facilitate cross-functional workshops, and deliver near-term opportunities with measurable revenue impact.

Loading

Loading job details...

Preparing the role view and application actions.

FursaFursa
Mastercard
Mastercard
1 month ago

Manager, Product Innovation & Strategy, Foundry

✓ Verified Job

Canonical indexed version, validated from employer's careers page.

Source: Company careers pageValidated by: Fursa AI
Status: Live

Job Summary

Lead new product initiatives for Mastercard Foundry across the Business & Market Insights and Open Finance groups, moving concepts from idea to commercialization. You’ll drive customer discovery, market testing, and prototype/product concept development, partnering with Product, Engineering, and Customer Experience & Design to validate solutions. Own business case development and high-quality decision materials, facilitate cross-functional workshops, and deliver near-term opportunities with measurable revenue impact.
Location: Toronto
Workplace: Onsite
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Strategy & Corporate Development
Seniority: Manager level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Engage in idea generation for new data and analytics focused products and solutions, including workshop facilitation and collateral development.
  • •Contribute to and independently own delivery of product concepts and prototypes.
  • •Conduct customer discovery (interviews, feedback sessions, and market testing) to validate concepts and guide product decisions.
  • •Partner with Product & Engineering and Customer Experience & Design to validate concepts and conduct market testing.
  • •Develop business cases and deliver high-quality internal collateral; lead cross-functional workshops and drive follow-up actions to completion.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: CAD 121,000 - 169,000 annually
Perks:Annual Incentive

Key Requirements

  • •Proven experience building and validating new products.
  • •Strong analytical and communication skills, with a background in AI being a plus.
  • •Strong product development and management experience, including rapid opportunity identification, concept development, business model innovation, and in-market testing.
  • •In-depth understanding of the payment ecosystem or prior experience in payments innovation delivering new-to-market value propositions.
  • •Experience working with R&D teams and comfort with technical details; product strategy, innovation, venture building, or management consulting is a plus.
Experience:Digital paymentsPaymentsOpen financeFintechData and analytics
Skills:CommunicationAnalytical thinkingCritical thinkingCross-functional collaborationWorkshop facilitation

Company Brief

Mastercard
Mastercard is a global payments and technology company that processes transactions, provides fraud prevention and data services, and builds payment infrastructure for consumers, businesses, merchants and governments across 200+ countries.
Industry: Payments
Company Size: Enterprise (1,001+ employees)
Revenue: USD 1B+
Growth: Public Company
Valuation: Public Company (Market Cap in USD)
Funding: IPO / Publicly Listed
Headquarters: Purchase, New York, United States
Founded: 1966
Glassdoor
Glassdoor: 4.1
WebsiteLinkedInGlassdoor