Product Management Intern (Jun 2025)

As an Associate Product Specialist Intern, you will be assigned to a business unit where you will learn, develop new skills, and gain valuable on-the-job experience. You will have the chance to gain an understanding of how Mastercard develops business cases for new product opportunities, develops scalable customer-centric products, and sees those projects through to go to market. They are looking for passionate and talented interns, who share their vision for developing scalable customer-centric products with agility and excellence. Program Components: Impactful assignments that drive business results Networking sessions and leadership speaker series Volunteer and team-building experiences As an Associate Product Specialist Intern, you may: Partner with your team to manage 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 Project management of strategic initiatives Work on potential product areas such as: Analytics APIs Artificial Intelligence Cryptocurrency/Blockchain Cybersecurity Loyalty Marketing Open Banking Payments (e-commerce, in-store, etc.) Projects other Associate Product Specialist Interns have worked on: Antonia worked on a product that helps customers assess their cyber risk. Her team needed to understand the performance of new features, so she built a dashboard tool to analyze user engagement and inform future product improvements. Thomas developed a competitive analysis of a business intelligence product to understand market offerings and how Mastercard's products are compared. His analysis helped the team identify which features to accelerate on their roadmap. Sarah worked with stakeholders and customers to understand the analytics needed for their application, then developed the roadmap for incorporating a 3rd-party data analytics tool into the app experience.

Mastercard is an American financial services company known best for its payment processing services dedicated to debit, credit, or prepaid cards that carry the Mastercard brand.