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Technical Manager roles qualify for H-1B visa sponsorship as specialty occupations requiring at least a bachelor's degree in engineering, computer science, or a related technical field. Employers file the LCA and I-129 on your behalf, and most large technology and manufacturing firms have established sponsorship pipelines for this role.
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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
Senior Product Manager - Technical
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.
Overview
The Services Access team is looking for a Program Manager - Technical to drive our customer experience strategy forward by consistently innovating and problem-solving. The ideal candidate is passionate about the customer experience journey, highly motivated, intellectually curious, analytical, and possesses an entrepreneurial mindset.
Role
In this position, you will:
- Meet with product managers to discuss and elicit needs, translating them into features, user stories, and technical stories.
- Facilitate story mapping sessions, enabling product managers to visualize and prioritize work.
- Actively groom and prioritize the product backlog, ensuring work is ready for the Dev teams.
- Facilitate backlog grooming sessions, articulating the what and why of each user story, enabling the dev team to define the how.
- Create features and stories aligning with product increments that are individually testable and shippable.
All About You
The ideal candidate for this position should:
- Have experience as a business analyst managing work across multiple squads.
- Have extensive experience leveraging agile tools (JIRA, ALM, Kanban) to facilitate agile ceremonies.
- Have proven success in systems architecture/design, managing complex projects, scoping multiple work-streams, and working across multiple teams/geographies.
- Have relevant experience in requirements gathering, specifically user story creation, and relationship building with business clients.
- Be skilled at collaborating with team members to ideate appropriate design solutions.
- Possess strong writing and verbal communication skills.
- Be a strong, confident, and exacting writer and speaker, able to communicate your vision and roadmap effectively to a wide variety of stakeholders.
- Always look for potential solutions to solve problems.
Preferred Skills
- Certified Product Owner (CPO).
- Experience in facilitating Agile workshops geared toward feature definition and prioritization.
- Experience leveraging story mapping to define business value increments and breaking stories down to their smallest value increment.
- Experience breaking stories down into 1-2 increments, enabling CI/CD principles.
Education
BS or MS in Computer Science.
Corporate Security Responsibility
Every person working for, or on behalf of, Mastercard is responsible for information security. All activities involving access to Mastercard assets, information, and networks come with an inherent risk to the organization and therefore, it is expected that the successful candidate for this position 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.
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 reasonable_accommodation@mastercard.com 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.
Pay Ranges
O'Fallon, Missouri: $104,000 - $177,000 USD
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 and may be eligible for an annual bonus or commissions depending on the role. The base salary offered may vary depending on multiple factors, including but not limited to location, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. 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 of new parent leave and up to 20 days of bereavement leave); 80 hours of Paid Sick and Safe Time, 25 days of vacation time and 5 personal days, pro-rated based on date of hire; 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; and many more. Mastercard benefits for interns generally include: 56 hours of Paid Sick and Safe Time; jury duty leave; and on-site fitness facilities in some locations.
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
Senior Product Manager - Technical
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.
Overview
The Services Access team is looking for a Program Manager - Technical to drive our customer experience strategy forward by consistently innovating and problem-solving. The ideal candidate is passionate about the customer experience journey, highly motivated, intellectually curious, analytical, and possesses an entrepreneurial mindset.
Role
In this position, you will:
- Meet with product managers to discuss and elicit needs, translating them into features, user stories, and technical stories.
- Facilitate story mapping sessions, enabling product managers to visualize and prioritize work.
- Actively groom and prioritize the product backlog, ensuring work is ready for the Dev teams.
- Facilitate backlog grooming sessions, articulating the what and why of each user story, enabling the dev team to define the how.
- Create features and stories aligning with product increments that are individually testable and shippable.
All About You
The ideal candidate for this position should:
- Have experience as a business analyst managing work across multiple squads.
- Have extensive experience leveraging agile tools (JIRA, ALM, Kanban) to facilitate agile ceremonies.
- Have proven success in systems architecture/design, managing complex projects, scoping multiple work-streams, and working across multiple teams/geographies.
- Have relevant experience in requirements gathering, specifically user story creation, and relationship building with business clients.
- Be skilled at collaborating with team members to ideate appropriate design solutions.
- Possess strong writing and verbal communication skills.
- Be a strong, confident, and exacting writer and speaker, able to communicate your vision and roadmap effectively to a wide variety of stakeholders.
- Always look for potential solutions to solve problems.
Preferred Skills
- Certified Product Owner (CPO).
- Experience in facilitating Agile workshops geared toward feature definition and prioritization.
- Experience leveraging story mapping to define business value increments and breaking stories down to their smallest value increment.
- Experience breaking stories down into 1-2 increments, enabling CI/CD principles.
Education
BS or MS in Computer Science.
Corporate Security Responsibility
Every person working for, or on behalf of, Mastercard is responsible for information security. All activities involving access to Mastercard assets, information, and networks come with an inherent risk to the organization and therefore, it is expected that the successful candidate for this position 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.
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 reasonable_accommodation@mastercard.com 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.
Pay Ranges
O'Fallon, Missouri: $104,000 - $177,000 USD
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 and may be eligible for an annual bonus or commissions depending on the role. The base salary offered may vary depending on multiple factors, including but not limited to location, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. 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 of new parent leave and up to 20 days of bereavement leave); 80 hours of Paid Sick and Safe Time, 25 days of vacation time and 5 personal days, pro-rated based on date of hire; 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; and many more. Mastercard benefits for interns generally include: 56 hours of Paid Sick and Safe Time; jury duty leave; and on-site fitness facilities in some locations.
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Get Access To All JobsTips for Finding H-1B Visa Sponsorship as a Technical Manager
Verify your degree aligns with the role
USCIS requires your degree field to directly relate to Technical Manager duties. A degree in a technical discipline like engineering or computer science is the clearest path. Unrelated degrees can trigger RFEs, so confirm alignment before applying.
Check LCA filings by occupation code
Technical Manager positions are typically filed under SOC code 11-9041. Use Migrate Mate to filter employers who have certified LCAs under this code, so you're targeting companies with documented H-1B filing history for this exact role.
Research prevailing wage levels before negotiating
Your offered salary must meet the DOL prevailing wage for your location and experience level. Use the OFLC Wage Search to look up Level II and Level III wages for Technical Manager roles in your target metro before entering salary discussions.
Target cap-exempt employers to bypass the lottery
Universities, nonprofit research organizations, and government entities can sponsor H-1B visas outside the annual lottery. Technical Manager roles at these institutions are cap-exempt, meaning USCIS can approve the petition year-round without a registration slot.
Confirm the employer's E-Verify enrollment before accepting an offer
H-1B employers must use E-Verify to confirm work authorization. Ask HR whether the specific hiring entity, not just the parent company, is enrolled. Subsidiaries and staffing intermediaries sometimes have separate enrollments that delay onboarding.
File premium processing if your start date is fixed
USCIS offers premium processing on I-129 petitions for a guaranteed 15-business-day adjudication. If your Technical Manager role has a contracted start date or project deadline, ask your employer to elect premium processing to avoid status gaps.
H-1B Visa Technical Manager: Frequently Asked Questions
Does a Technical Manager role qualify as a specialty occupation for H-1B purposes?
Yes, provided the position requires at least a bachelor's degree in a specific technical field such as engineering, computer science, or information technology. USCIS evaluates the job duties, not just the title. If the role involves general management with no required technical degree, it may not qualify, so the job description must clearly tie the duties to a specialized body of knowledge.
How do I find employers who actively sponsor H-1B visas for Technical Manager positions?
Migrate Mate surfaces employers with verified LCA filing history filtered by occupation code, so you can identify companies that have previously certified H-1B petitions for Technical Manager roles specifically. This removes guesswork and helps you focus your applications on employers already familiar with the sponsorship process for this title.
Can I transfer my H-1B to a new employer if I'm already a Technical Manager?
Yes. H-1B portability under AC21 lets you start working for a new employer as soon as the transfer petition is filed, provided your current H-1B has been approved for at least 180 days and the new role is in the same or a similar occupational classification. Technical Manager positions generally satisfy same-classification continuity with other management and senior technical roles.
What happens to my H-1B if my Technical Manager role is reclassified or my team is restructured?
A material change in job duties, location, or reporting structure can require your employer to file an amended I-129 petition before the change takes effect. If your role shifts from a technical leadership function to a purely administrative one, the amended petition may face specialty occupation scrutiny. Your employer's immigration counsel should evaluate any restructuring before it's finalized.
Does the O*NET classification for Technical Manager affect my H-1B petition?
O*NET provides the SOC code and job zone classification that employers use to define the role and determine the prevailing wage tier. Technical Manager positions typically fall under SOC 11-9041, Job Zone 4, which requires a bachelor's degree and several years of experience. Employers reference O*NET in the LCA and supporting documentation to justify the specialty occupation designation to USCIS.