# Associate Product Specialist, Graduate Launch Program, Cairo - Egypt

**Company**: Mastercard
**Location**: Cairo
**Experience**: entry
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Product Management
**Industry**: Finance

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## Description

Mastercard's Graduate Launch Program is an 18-month program that provides hands-on experience, structured learning, and mentorship from industry leaders. As an Associate Product Specialist, you will work on real business challenges, applying your skills to projects that create meaningful impact.

Responsibilities:

- Manage and own tasks across the product life cycle

- Assist in establishing and monitoring progress against key milestones in the development and implementation process

- Work with various product lines and technologies

- Provide competitive landscape, trends, consumer insights, research and end-to-end program analytics

- Engage with the business and engineering teams to track progress and identify dependencies and risks

- Contribute to inspiring product visions, derived from market and customer needs, and evolving technology trends

- Identify and measure product and business metrics to increase adoption and understand customers' ongoing needs

- Conduct iterative experiments to identify and prioritize key features for inclusion with product releases and product roadmap

- Develop presentations to be used in sales/partnership meetings

- Define product pricing strategies

- Speak with customers (existing or prospective) to fully understand how Mastercard product will impact their systems and business models

- Assist customers to resolve operational issues that have been escalated

- Project management of strategic initiatives

- Work on potential product areas such as: Analytics, APIs, Artificial Intelligence, Cryptocurrency/Blockchain, Cybersecurity, Loyalty, Marketing, Open Banking, or Payments (e-commerce, store, etc.)

- Evaluate opportunities to leverage AI-enabled and data-driven capabilities to improve product experiences and business outcomes.

- Collaborate with technical teams to understand emerging technologies, assess trade-offs, and translate technical concepts into customer and business value.

Requirements:

- Anticipated graduation date between in Spring 2027

- Strong verbal and written communication skills

- Demonstrates a high level of adaptability and flexibility in a fast-paced environment, with a strong ability to collaborate effectively across teams and stakeholders.

- Highly organized and detail-oriented, with strong planning and time management skills to prioritize work and deliver results efficiently.

- Able to balance multiple priorities while maintaining a structured and proactive approach to achieving objectives.

- Curiosity about emerging technologies and understanding how AI can create customer and business value.

- Foundational knowledge of AI, data, APIs, and modern technology platforms.

## Skills

### Required
- AI
- data
- APIs
- modern technology platforms
- communication
- project management

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