Mastercard
Associate Product Specialist, Launch Graduate Program 2027 - Lisbon, Portugal
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Participate in Mastercard’s 18-month Launch Graduate Program within Product Management. Develop business cases, create scalable customer-centric products, measure product and business metrics, run experiments, prioritize roadmap features, support product releases, and help resolve escalated customer operational issues.
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
Associate Product Specialist, Launch Graduate Program 2027 - Lisbon, Portugal
Why join Mastercard's Launch Program?
Over the course of this 18-month program, you'll build specialized expertise through hands-on experience, structured learning, and mentorship from industry leaders. You'll work on real business challenges, applying your skills to projects that create meaningful impact. Along the way, you'll deepen your knowledge of Mastercard's business, collaborate with teams across the organization, and develop the technical, analytical, and professional capabilities needed to accelerate your career. By the end of the program, you'll have a strong foundation in your chosen field and the confidence to continue to grow here at Mastercard.
Product Management
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.
What you'll do
As an Associate Product Specialist, Product Management, you will:
Identify and measure product and business metrics to increase adoption and understand customers' ongoing needs
Conduct iterative experiments to identify and prioritise key features for inclusion with product releases and product roadmap
Assist customers to resolve operational issues that have been escalated
What we're looking for:
Currently enrolled in a Bachelor's or Master's degree, with an anticipated graduation date between December 2026 and August 2027
Available to start 1st September 2027
Analytical and problem-solving skills
Strong strategic and conceptual aptitude
High-energy, can-do attitude, very strong sense of ownership
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:
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
Associate Product Specialist, Launch Graduate Program 2027 - Lisbon, Portugal
Why join Mastercard's Launch Program?
Over the course of this 18-month program, you'll build specialized expertise through hands-on experience, structured learning, and mentorship from industry leaders. You'll work on real business challenges, applying your skills to projects that create meaningful impact. Along the way, you'll deepen your knowledge of Mastercard's business, collaborate with teams across the organization, and develop the technical, analytical, and professional capabilities needed to accelerate your career. By the end of the program, you'll have a strong foundation in your chosen field and the confidence to continue to grow here at Mastercard.
Product Management
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.
What you'll do
As an Associate Product Specialist, Product Management, you will:
Identify and measure product and business metrics to increase adoption and understand customers' ongoing needs
Conduct iterative experiments to identify and prioritise key features for inclusion with product releases and product roadmap
Assist customers to resolve operational issues that have been escalated
What we're looking for:
Currently enrolled in a Bachelor's or Master's degree, with an anticipated graduation date between December 2026 and August 2027
Available to start 1st September 2027
Analytical and problem-solving skills
Strong strategic and conceptual aptitude
High-energy, can-do attitude, very strong sense of ownership
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.
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