Product Operations Specialist

**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**
Product Operations Specialist
Who is Mastercard?
Mastercard is a global technology company in the payments industry. Our mission is to connect and power an inclusive, digital economy that benefits everyone, everywhere by making transactions safe, simple, smart, and accessible. Using secure data and networks, partnerships and passion, our innovations and solutions help individuals, financial institutions, governments, and businesses realize their greatest potential.
Our decency quotient, or DQ, drives our culture and everything we do inside and outside of our company. With connections across more than 210 countries and territories, we are building a sustainable world that unlocks priceless possibilities for all.
The Position:
The Customer Engagement & Delivery team is looking to grow our Research function for handling the Research, Validation and Testing of subscription merchants. Our Product Operation Specialists excel in collecting deep secondary data, ensuring the quality of data collected, validating the data and testing through primary research to ensure it meets quality. This data would be used to drive the product, and it is critical for the success of the company, hence this is a high-visibility, high-impact role.
Role:
**Requirements**:
- Minimum of 3 years of work experience in secondary or primary research roles
- Experience over a range of research projects is welcome
- You have a degree level education
- Comfortable with collaboration tools Microsoft suite include MS Teams, OneDrive, and Word/Excel/PowerPoint
- Comfort with speaking, reading and writing Brazilian Portuguese
- Strong communication skills in English and Brazilian Portuguese
- Should be operationally creative, solution-oriented, self-motivated, and persistent
**Responsibilities**:
- Research global B2C subscription merchants
- Validate the research based on internal standard operating procedures and methods.
- Reporting progress to Research lead and communicating with the head of data on milestones achieved
- Ensure that the required data is collected, transformed and made available for our internal teams and/or external partners.
- Supporting senior stakeholders in other "quick wins" for key business outcomes in Finance, Product, Sales and Customer Success.
- Contribute to simple and innovative ways to ingest, transform, store and analyze various data sources.
- Provide recommendations for enhancements of testing data specifications, processes and products.
- Clearly document findings, procedures, and recommendations.
**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.

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