Sr. Specialist Product Designer - UX/UI

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

Sr. Specialist Product Designer - UX/UI 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.

Services within Mastercard is responsible for acquiring, engaging, and retaining customers by managing fraud and risk, enhancing cybersecurity, and improving the digital payments experience. We provide value-added services and leverage expertise, data-driven insights, and execution.

Overview:

Join the Mastercard Safety Net team as a UX/UI Designer and play a critical role in designing intuitive, user-centric interfaces that help protect our global network against large-scale fraud. Safety Net is Mastercard's proprietary fraud mitigation platform that provides a secondary layer of defense by monitoring network activity and blocking suspicious transactionsminimizing financial and reputational impact during cyber attacks.

As a UX/UI Designer, you'll collaborate closely with Product Management and Engineering to translate complex requirements into elegant, scalable design solutions. This role is ideal for someone who thrives at the intersection of user experience, business needs, and technical feasibility.

Role:
Provides designs specifications for and develops new products and services or their components. Defines functional and technical requirements. Researches new technologies and competitive products to develop additional product ideas and enhancements. Performs launch-related activities associated with new or highly customized product implementations, including marketing/communication and collateral. Defines business and technical requirements and manages the relationships of technical resources and the Global Technology Organization to maintain and build out platforms

Major Accountabilities:
Lead end-to-end UX design efforts for new products and enhancements, from research and wireframes to visual design and developer handoff
Collaborate with Product Managers and Engineers to understand business goals, system capabilities, and technical constraints
Conduct UX research with customers and internal stakeholders to inform priorities and validate designs
Translate insights into design artifacts such as user flows, wireframes, mock-ups, and interactive prototypes
Contribute to and help evolve our UX Design System to ensure visual and functional consistency
Work alongside engineers and QA to ensure that design intent is implemented accurately and effectively
Help define UX best practices and processes as we grow the UX function within the Safety Net team

Knowledge / Experience:
Proven experience designing UX for complex, enterprise-level web applications
Strong skills in UX research, interaction design, and visual design
Proficiency with modern design and prototyping tools (e.g., Figma, Sketch, InVision, Adobe XD)
Ability to communicate design decisions clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders
Familiarity with front-end development (e.g., HTML, CSS, JavaScript) and ability to collaborate closely with engineers
Comfort navigating trade-offs between usability, performance, and development effort

Skills Required:
Understanding of product development concepts and practices across the product development life cycle
Demonstrated ability to multi-task and manage a significant workload
Advanced organization and project management skills
Solid verbal and written communications skills
Ability to understand, interpret and analyze financial information
Ability to interact effectively at various organizational levels and to work collaboratively with internal and external business partners Mastercard is a merit-based, inclusive, equal opportunity employer that considers applicants without regard to gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, ethnicity, disabled or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. We hire the most qualified candidate for the role. In the US or Canada, if you require accommodations or assistance to complete the online application process or during the recruitment process, please contact ... and identify the type of accommodation or assistance you are requesting. Do not include any medical or health information in this email. The Reasonable Accommodations team will respond to your email promptly.

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.

In line with Mastercard's total compensation philosophy and assuming that the job will be performed in the US, the successful candidate will be offered a competitive base salary based on location, experience and other qualifications for the role and may be eligible for an annual bonus or commissions depending on the role. Mastercard benefits for full time (and certain part time) employees generally include: insurance (including medical, prescription drug, dental, vision, disability, life insurance), flexible spending account and health savings account, paid leaves (including 16 weeks new parent leave, up to 20 paid days bereavement leave), 10 annual paid sick days, 10 or more annual paid vacation days based on level, 5 personal days, 10 annual paid U.S. observed holidays, 401k with a best-in-class company match, deferred compensation for eligible roles, fitness reimbursement or on-site fitness facilities, eligibility for tuition reimbursement, gender-inclusive benefits and many more.

Pay Ranges

O'Fallon, Missouri: $99,000 - $158,000 USD