Product Management Intern, Internship Program 2025 - Warsaw, Poland-R-228707

Our Purpose

We work 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. We cultivate a culture of inclusion for all employees that respects their individual strengths, views, and experiences. We believe that our differences enable us to be a better team – one that makes better decisions, drives innovation and delivers better business results.

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Product Management Intern, Internship Program 2025 - Warsaw, Poland

Who is Mastercard?

Mastercard is a global technology company behind the world’s fastest payments processing network. We are a vehicle for commerce, a connection to financial systems for the previously excluded, a technology innovation lab, and the home of Priceless®. We ensure every employee has the opportunity to be a part of something bigger and to change lives. We believe as our company grows, so should you. We believe in connecting everyone to endless, priceless possibilities.

Our Purpose

We work 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. We cultivate a culture of inclusion for all employees that respects their individual strengths, views, and experiences. We believe that our differences enable us to be a better team – one that makes better decisions, drives innovation and delivers better business results.

Make an impact as an Associate Product Specialist Intern

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. We are looking for passionate and talented interns, who share our vision for developing scalable customer-centric products with agility and excellence.

The Mastercard internship program in Poland is a comprehensive journey where students will gain hands on real work-life skills while having fun and contributing to a global company. As an intern, you will be challenged with completing projects that will enhance your skills as well as contribute to the department’s goals and objectives. You will have six-month internship starting on February, and based on performance evaluations and future opportunities, you may have the chance to extend your internship and transition into a full-time Launch role starting in September.

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, or 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 product 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 our application, then developed the roadmap for incorporating a 3rd-party data analytics tool into the app experience.
  
  
  

All About You

• Undergraduate or master’s degree with a target graduation date between June 2025 - August 2025
• Be able to start on 3rd of February (at least 3 days a week from the office in Warsaw)
• Outstanding record of academic achievement
• Strong oral and written communication skills
• Proficient with Microsoft Office Suite (e.g., Excel, PPT)
• High energy level; flexible, adaptive and strong collaborator
• Well planned, organized & structured to manage time & work effectively
  
  
  

Application Process

• Submit your application
• If eligible, receive invitation for a digital interview; this includes answering pre-recorded interview questions that advance your application
• If recommended to advance, receive invitation for final round interview(s); you will have the opportunity to meet with us virtually to learn more about our business and culture
  
  
  

This role is not eligible for Mastercard’s work authorization sponsorship. As such, candidates must be eligible to work in the Poland, now as well as in the future, without employer sponsorship.

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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