Product Manager - Data Governance and Management Platforms

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

Product Manager - Data Governance and Management Platforms

Position Summary:
We are seeking a strategic and execution-focused Director-level Product Manager within our Data Catalog and Data Management Platform, with a focus on data use enablement and data marketplace adoption. This role will be instrumental in enabling data product discovery across the organization and building strong partnerships with data science and AI modeling teams. The ideal candidate combines deep product management experience with a passion for data governance, metadata management, and data enablement. In this role, you will define product vision and roadmap, prioritize initiatives for maximum business impact, and work cross-functionally to deliver a high-value, scalable data marketplace to accelerate discovery, streamline data access, and insight across the enterprise.

Key Responsibilities:
• Serve as a trusted liaison between business stakeholders, data science teams, engineering, and governance to ensure product alignment with data consumption and usage needs.
• Align governance platform and data marketplace capabilities with the needs of analytics teams, data owners, data stewards, and compliance stakeholders.
• Gather and translate complex business needs into clear product requirements, features, and user stories.
• Ensure all data products meet enterprise data governance, security, privacy, and compliance standards.
• Drive adoption and usage of the data catalog to enable data discovery, understanding, and data product advocacy across business units.
• Provide processes to audit and report on data use that does not align to standards for data product and machine learning model standards.
• Promote lineage, data classification, policy enforcement, and audit capabilities within the data product and marketplace ecosystem.
• Continuously assess product opportunities and evolve capabilities to support new AI efforts through monitoring market trends, emerging tools, and best practices in metadata management and AI enablement.
• Evolve the platform to better leverage AI capabilities for scale and meaningful insights for data.
• Drive adoption of the platform and related tools by championing user education, support, and engagement.
• Collect feedback from users and stakeholders to iterate and improve platform usability, functionality, and trust.
• Advocate for self-service data access and discovery while safeguarding data assets through robust governance.

Required Qualifications:
• Significant experience in product management or data governance roles in a director-level or senior leadership position.
• Proven success managing data products or platforms (e.g., data catalogs, metadata management, data quality tools).
• Expertise in modern data architecture, data movement and consumption practices, data marketplaces, and data governance frameworks.
• Experience working with or implementing tools such as Atlan, Alation, Unity Catalog, or similar.
• Exceptional talent in creating executive level communications (powerpoint, executive briefings) for product strategies, execution, and reporting.
• Strong understanding of data science workflows, machine learning lifecycle, and data enablement best practices.
• Exceptional communication and leadership skills; able to engage both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Preferred Qualifications:
• Experience leading enterprise-scale metadata and governance initiatives across complex organizations.
• Familiarity with data product operating models and promoting of gold standard data products.
• Knowledge of compliance and risk practices and policies from Privacy and Information Security.
• Background in change management, stakeholder adoption, and product evangelism.

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.