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, Product Architect
overview

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.

Key Responsibilities

• Support highly technical product ideas from early ideation through discovery, feasibility assessment, and validation
• Develop research proposals, technical designs, and experimental approaches to explore new authentication concepts
• Design and build proof of concepts (PoCs) to validate functionality, scalability, security, and performance
• Assess and respond to industry, technology, and regulatory changes impacting authentication and digital identity
• Translate external trends and insights into actionable recommendations that inform Mastercard’s authentication strategy and roadmap
• Contribute to thought leadership around future authentication models and product differentiation
• Define conceptual and high-level architectures for new authentication products and platforms
• Ensure alignment with Mastercard’s architecture principles, security frameworks, and platform strategies
• Identify technical risks, dependencies, and design trade-offs early in the product lifecycle