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 culture of inclusion (https://www.mastercard.us/en-us/vision/who-we-are/diversity-inclusion.html) 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.

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Associate Product Specialist, Product Management, Launch Graduate Program 2025 - Lisbon, Portugal

Associate Product Specialist, Product Management Launch Program 2025 – Lisbon, Portugal

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 culture of inclusion 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.

Mastercard Launch

Mastercard Launch is an 18-month global development program providing recent graduates with opportunities and exposure. You will not only enhance your professional growth and skills in a global setting, you’ll launch your Mastercard career.

Make an impact as an Associate Product Specialist:

As an Associate Product Specialist, you will have the chance to learn how to develop business cases for new product opportunities, develop scalable customer-centric products, and see those projects through to go-to-market. When joining one of our highly collaborative product teams, you will have the opportunity to build and manage great products. We are looking for passionate and talented professionals, who share our vision for developing scalable customer-centric products with agility and excellence.

As an Associate Product Management, you may:

• Partner cooperatively in a team environment to support evolution of a wide array of programs across Mastercard business.

• Assist in analysing and interpreting user data, consider context and bias in data, and makes a point to highlight data issues / inconsistencies. 

• Seeks to learn drivers of product stakeholder priorities/preferences and how to bring new insights to own team.

• Perform project management duties, creating and documenting processes, developing timelines, and beyond.

• Communicate across key stakeholders to implement action plans to support the business.

• Perform desktop research to identify regional or global trends and develop key performance metrics and reporting.

• Assist with ad hoc requests, participate in special projects as required, and provide cross-functional support as needed.

• Shows eagerness to learn new business knowledge, technologies, tools or systems Shows eagerness to learn new business knowledge, technologies, tools or systems.

All about you:

• Undergraduate or master’s degree with an expected graduation date between Dec 2024-August 2025

• Project management skills, highly organized with strong attention to detail

• Expert PC skills including proficiency in Microsoft Excel, Word, PowerPoint, and Access; programming and coding ability a plus.

• Ability to multi-task and prioritize multiple projects concurrently.

• Strong verbal and written communication skills  

• Analytical and problem-solving skills

• Strong strategic and conceptual aptitude

• Ability to multi-task and prioritize multiple projects concurrently. 

• High-energy, can-do attitude, very strong sense of ownership and desire to succeed with commensurate analytical, technical, and strategic skills.

Languages

• English

• Additional language is a plus.

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.