Manager, Product Architect

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.

Manager, Product Architect

At Mastercard, we connect and power an inclusive digital economy that benefits everyone, everywhere by making transactions safe, simple, smart, and accessible.

Within Product Innovation, in Authentication Services, we are building the future of secure, seamless digital authentication - and we are looking for a Manager, Product Architect to help shape what comes next.

This is a highly technical, individual contributor role focused on early-stage innovation, research, and architecture. You will help turn emerging technologies and bold ideas into validated product concepts, working proof points, and protected intellectual property that drive Mastercard’s authentication strategy.

Role

As a Manager, Product Architect, you will operate at the convergence of product innovation, architecture, and applied research. You will support discovery and feasibility efforts for new authentication capabilities, design future-state architectures, and deliver working proof of concepts that validate technical and business hypotheses.

You will also serve as a trusted technical advisor to delivery teams, helping transition innovative concepts into scalable product constructs while ensuring alignment with Mastercard’s security, regulatory, and architectural standards.

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:

• Proven experience in product architecture, solution architecture, or software engineering
• Strong background in authentication, identity, security, or fraud-related technologies
• Hands-on experience delivering research-driven initiatives, prototypes, or proof of concepts
• Ability to evaluate emerging technologies and assess their applicability to real-world products
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field (advanced degree preferred)
• Knowledge of authentication standards, biometrics, MFA, and risk-based authentication approaches
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with comfort operating in ambiguous problem spaces
• Ability to communicate complex technical ideas clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences
• Collaborative mindset with the ability to influence without formal authority

• Work on globally impactful products used by millions of consumers and businesses every day
• Be part of a culture that values innovation, curiosity, and continuous learning
• Collaborate with world-class talent across product, engineering, security, and research
• Contribute directly to Mastercard’s long-term technology strategy and intellectual property portfolio