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Title and Summary

Data Science Product Lead

Overview

At Mastercard, the People Insights Team play a crucial role in shaping our talent strategy and enhancing employee experience through data-driven insights. The Data Science Product Lead role is a newly created role in our Consulting Team within the Global People Operations and Insights team at Mastercard, operating across multiple Regions & time zones. The ideal candidate will have experience of introducing innovation in a large scale organization through implementation of advanced analytical solutions within the HR functional domain.

Role

Product Strategy and Vision: Define the vision and roadmap for data science products within the People Analytics function, aligning with our People Strategy and business objectives;

Stakeholder Engagement: Proactively collaborates with HR stakeholders and People Analytics Partners to gather & prioritize requirements for potential use cases; keeps stakeholders informed of progress and timelines

Cross functional collaboration: Works in close partnership with Data Science Delivery Lead to execute on Data Science roadmap; converts inputs from stakeholder teams into creative, scalable solutions

Change Management & Enablement: Develop, execute and track change management strategies to drive adoption of data science products amongst intended users; creation of training and support material to drive enablement and adoption of analytical solutions

Continuous Improvement Mindset: Stay up-to-date with industry trends and emerging themes in people analytics domain, identifying opportunities to introduce external perspectives, enhance product offerings and maximize impact

Data Integrity & Governance: Demonstrates exceptional judgment and discretion when dealing with highly sensitive people data including partnering with Data Privacy & Governance teams to obtain appropriate data governance approvals

Outcome focused: Partners with Data Science Delivery Lead to track KPIs (key performance indicators) to measure the success and impact of data-driven HR products. 



All About You

Essential

Outcome driven; with experience providing innovative advanced analytical solutions that have lasting impact in multiple dimensions; strategic, operational and financial

Understanding of the HR functional domain; either through hands on experience or external research

Experience of relationship building and managing a group of either internal or external clients

Comfortable working in a technical environment; strong understanding of data science concepts, algorithms, and statistical modelling techniques.

Proven practical experience as a Data Scientist, Product Manager or similar role, with a focus on delivering data-driven products and solutions at scale in organizations.

Flexible and responsible; ability to prioritize and manage multiple projects simultaneously, including adapting where required to changes in business priorities

End-to-end problem-solving and communication abilities: diagnosis, data cleaning, integration and transformation, analysis, visualization, and presentation

Ability to collaborate with peers and cross functional teams, working across multiple time zones

Openness to feedback and strong self-awareness

Ability to work within the confines of data governance and privacy standards

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.