Manager, Product Experience & Design

Full-time Job Type
Hybrid Work Arrangement
Senior-Level Experience
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Hybrid role in Leixlip, Ireland for a senior-level Product Experience & Design Manager at Mastercard. The position focuses on designing AI-driven user experiences and integrating behavioral science, data, and technology to create innovative solutions.

Skills / Requirements

  • AI-assisted Design
  • Atomic Design
  • Component Systems
  • Design Systems
  • Design Thinking
  • Figma
  • Human-Centered Design
  • Journey Maps
  • Product Strategy
  • Prototyping
  • Technical Communication
  • User Flows
  • UX/UI Design
  • Vibe Coding

Why Apply

This role is ideal for those skilled in AI-assisted design tools like Figma Make, which accelerates ideation and prototyping. You'll engage in vibe coding, merging design and code for rapid prototyping and iteration.

What You'll Be Doing

You'll collaborate with cross-functional teams to design and implement user experiences that align with Mastercard's product strategies. This involves creating reusable components, prototyping, and iterating design systems to enhance customer engagement.

Working in Leixlip, Ireland

  • Leixlip offers a blend of urban and rural living, with easy access to Dublin's tech scene.
  • The area is known for its historical sites and scenic landscapes, providing a balanced lifestyle.
  • Leixlip's proximity to Dublin means access to a vibrant job market and networking opportunities.
  • Public transport connects Leixlip to Dublin, making commuting convenient for professionals.

Pay and Career Growth

The role offers professional development within Mastercard's extensive design community, providing access to training and a guild of designers. It emphasizes continuous learning and innovation, with opportunities to influence product design at a global scale.

Benefits and Perks

  • Collaborative Environment
  • Innovative projects
  • Professional Development
  • training

Is This Role Right for You?

Good fit if you...

  • Experienced in UX/UI design with a strong focus on user-centric solutions.
  • Proficient in Figma and AI-assisted design tools for rapid prototyping.
  • Comfortable with cross-functional collaboration and iterative design processes.

May not be for you if...

  • Lacks experience in AI-driven design or vibe coding methodologies.
  • Prefers working in isolation rather than in cross-functional teams.
  • Unfamiliar with design systems or component-based design approaches.

Original Job Description

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

Manager, Product Experience & Design

Overview

We are building a next-generation CXD Squad focused on designing and delivering Agentic Experiences, systems where AI agents proactively assist, act and collaborate with users to achieve outcomes.

You’ll join our pioneering CX&D Squad in the AI & Data organization at Mastercard to design new User Experiences, drive innovation and conceptualize design thinking within our products.

You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to create impactful experiences that resonate with our target audience.

Role

We are looking for an experienced & dynamic Product Experience & Design Manager (IC) to join our AI & Data team at Mastercard. This role requires a blend of product thinking, design craft, and fluency in emerging AI-driven workflows.

You will play a critical role in designing the next generation of Mastercard’s business solutions and data-driven products. Our UX team integrates Behavioral Science, Data, Design & Technology to create future conceptual designs, iterate design systems, and develop new product solutions that elevate existing features.

If you’re passionate about Design Systems and components, live in Figma, are driven by user-centric solutions, and are interested in learning advanced product design skills then we’d love to hear from you.

About Product Experience Design

As a Product Experience Designer, you’ll work closely with UX Research, Product Designers, Product Managers, Engineers, and more.

In addition to contributing to our Design System, you’ll be creating & building new experiences to increase conversion rates by creating reusable components via high-fidelity design tokens, UI Kits that address technical challenges, and applying advanced interaction design prototypes.

As an empathetic user advocate, you strive to turn complexity into simple beautiful solution that meet customers’ needs. You love building great products by applying best practices and standards to create innovative products.

We’re always evolving and learning, it’s a place where you’ll grow as a professional, both individually and as a team. You’ll help us to design the best Customer Experience for a range of even more innovative things we can’t talk about yet!

As a Mastercard’s CX&Design community member, you’d have access to our internal Guild of hundreds of designers, researchers, and strategists, training, and professional development.

What you’ll be doing

• Contribute to our design system between Design, Product and Engineering.

• Ensure that our User Experience optimizes business objectives and user engagement, working closely with Product Design partners & Product Managers.

• Ideate and conceptualize new features aligned with product strategies.

• Rapid prototyping of Proof-of-Concepts and MVPs using human-centered design principles.

• Create new visual designs, reusable components via high-fidelity assets, user flows, journey maps, and beyond, to achieve the best Customer Experience.

• Adapting & iterate Proof-of-Concept components onto our Design System.

• Continuously improve efficiency in the design process and the overall product experience by using atomic design principles.

All about you

• Over 6 years of UX/UI design experience for consumer-facing products and B2B solutions.

• A master & advanced proficiency in Figma, including component systems, prototyping, and scalable design systems.

• Experience using Figma Make (or similar AI-assisted design tooling) to accelerate ideation, prototyping and iteration.

• Hands-on experience with Vibe Coding or similar rapid prototyping approaches where design and code converge.

• Ability to iterate & craft detailing new components based on a design North Star.

• Strong UX focus and understanding of component properties, behaviors and grids.

• Ability to think strategically about product strategy and articulate design iterations.

• Experience adapting to changes and implementing updates to keep the design system relevant.

• Ability to understand technical implications in design decisions.

• You practice Design Thinking and can demonstrate success in bringing products to market using this methodology.

• Passion for solving problems and being challenged.

• Adaptability – constant willingness to learn and hit the ground running.

• Initiative and ability to collaborate independently.

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.