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Staff UX Researcher & Innovation Lead

(2023-2025)

Mastercard | Digital Labs

Ex-Mastercard Digital Labs innovation & product-strategy consultant. Translated ambiguous business problems into testable bets, co-created prototypes with clients, and drove adoption/upsell with evidence-based stories. Named one of the world’s “Best Innovation Labs” (Global Finance).

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Mastercard Innovation Hub in NYC

$50M+

in upsell generated from the output of my projects

Medical Tourism · Developer Portal · Loan Decisioning

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Key Achievements & Responsibilities

Overview:

Innovation & product-strategy consultant within Mastercard Digital Labs, translating loosely defined business challenges into testable problems and delivering solutions that create measurable value. Primarily responsible for ingesting abstract/loosely defined business challenges, identifying/understanding requirements, applying available product offerings alongside industry best practices, and ultimately delivering a solution that adds tangible value to business clients/consumers. Clients included (but are not limited to) large national banks, small regional banks, startups, FinTechs, merchants, and internal product teams.

With clients such as:

large national banks, medium regional banks, small credit unions, fintechs, merchants, non-profits, internal product teams, healthcare and travel startup

Other Duties:

  • Served as Salesforce Program Manager for North American Region, assigning projects to team members, balancing workload, and ensuring documentation was captured from all projects

  • Served in regional FinOps committee performing financial audits, ensuring compliance with corporate comptroller

Dozens

of Virtual & In-Person rapid innovation engagements