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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.\nTitle and Summary\nPrincipal Analyst (Product Manager - Technical)OverviewMastercard is seeking an experienced Principal Product Manager - Technical (PM-T) to help drive the evolution of the MIND platform.\nThis is a senior individual contributor role responsible for shaping platform investments, governing portfolio intake, driving capability-based planning, and partnering closely with Product Management, Architecture, and Engineering leaders. 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They are comfortable working directly with stakeholders, evaluating opportunities, making prioritisation recommendations, and influencing strategic decisions through data, technical understanding, and business context.\nRole\nIn this position, you will:\nPartner with Product Managers to evaluate, shape, and prioritise product and technology investments across the platform.\nLead portfolio intake activities, including demand assessment, capability mapping, dependency analysis, and prioritisation recommendations.\nMaintain and evolve the platform capability model, ensuring new initiatives are aligned to strategic capabilities and technology objectives.\nIdentify opportunities for platform reuse, consolidation, standardisation, and technical simplification.\nWork closely with Architects and Engineering leaders to ensure portfolio decisions support long-term platform scalability, operability, and sustainability.\nDrive visibility and transparency of portfolio priorities, dependencies, 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