Associate Specialist, Product Management, Launch Graduate Program 2026 – Shanghai, China

• Acts as a business owner and manages long-term and short-term strategic initiatives for a commercialized product
• Roles in this family oversee product evolution, establish go-to-market strategy, optimize products and resources, implement incremental improvements within the product’s life cycle, conduct ongoing care and maintenance, and manage P&L.

• Assists in analyzing and interpreting user data, considers 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
• Actively listens to and learns how to probe for additional information from key stakeholders
• Seeks to understand the importance of building cross-cultural peer networks and actively works towards building one’s own
• Seeks to understand Mastercard's business operations and how value is created at each step of the payments value chain
• Asks meaningful and appropriate questions to understand and translate business requirements into desired functionality
• Exhibits general knowledge of Mastercard business processes, systems, products, customers and how they impact own area of work
• Develops awareness of key business issues and major stakeholders in own area by helping to perform research & analysis
• Takes personal ownership for seeing tasks through to timely completion while keeping team updated on progress
• Approaches work situations with intellectual curiosity regularly sharing ideas for process modifications/ improvements.
• Participates in Guild activities which develop others and reinforces good team spirit while working with others
• Demonstrates active learning and sharing of product development practices via Guild/Product community initiatives
• Understands relationships within own work area and participates in teamwork and collaborative efforts
• Shows eagerness to learn new business knowledge, technologies, tools or systems
• Exhibits effective oral, written and non-verbal communications within Mastercard and delivers high quality work
• Exhibits understanding of the importance of collaboration in communications planning and execution
• Contributes near-term input (quarterly) for the product portfolio and roadmap
• May coordinate internal forums to collect and identify feature-level development opportunities
• Helps build product documentation that are clear and easily consumable by product teams
• Deliver assigned work seeking guidance from experienced team members

• Exposure to relevant Microsoft Office programs and ability to create deliverables on a timely basis (e.g., Excel, PowerPoint, Access, etc.)
• Exposure to collecting and/or working with data including standardizing, summarizing, offering initial observations and highlighting inconsistencies
• Exposure to working with various product lines, technologies, and industries
• Takes the time to fully learn the product portfolio
• Familiar with business and technical writing.

• Currently enrolled in a bachelor’s or accelerated master’s program graduating between Dec 2025 – July 2026.
• Able to start work on 6 July 2026 (Start dates are fixed).
• You do not require any work visa sponsorships to work in China.
• Highly motivated, intellectually curious, analytical, and a strong team player.
• Extremely organized and able to independently manage multiple projects and initiatives with varying scope concurrently.
• Excellent relationship building skills; able to foster and maintain strong, positive working internal and external relationships across multiple business functions and markets.
• Highly customer focused with a demonstrated ability to understand and respond to customer needs.
• Outstanding communication and presentation skills, able to clearly tailor the message to the audience and communicate complex products and processes.
• Ability to communicate complex ideas effectively – both verbally and in writing – in English and the local office language (viz. Mandarin).

Mastercard