Jobs at Mastercard

Advances Mastercard’s AI and data strategy through research, strategic analysis, responsible AI governance, stakeholder engagement, and adoption initiatives. Develops governance frameworks, evaluates emerging technologies and risks, supports AI and analytics integration, promotes data literacy, contributes to thought leadership, and mentors junior team members. Collaborates with product, engineering, legal, compliance, privacy, security, risk, and business stakeholders to promote responsible innovation.

Leads strategic customer success and commercial performance for an international real-time payments portfolio. Owns customer relationships, account plans, P&L, revenue growth, renewals, value delivery, roadmap governance, service performance, risk management, and executive engagement. Partners cross-functionally with Product, Engineering, Operations, Finance, Legal, Risk, and regional teams to resolve issues, deliver customer commitments, improve operational excellence, and expand Mastercard’s payment solutions.

Leads SME channel partner sales across Europe, owning revenue growth, sales strategy, pipeline development, partner acquisition, deal negotiation, and go-to-market execution. The role targets fintechs, spend management platforms, and payment solution providers. Responsibilities include analyzing market trends, tailoring Mastercard solutions, collaborating with account management, product, marketing, and business development teams, representing Mastercard at industry events, and expanding digital B2B payment adoption among SMEs.

Provides strategic legal support for Mastercard’s global SME and commercial solutions business. Advises on product development, payments automation, regulatory compliance, privacy, antitrust, risk, and commercial strategy. Drafts and negotiates complex customer, vendor, software, data licensing, and partnership agreements. Supports sales initiatives, compliance programs, process improvements, and transformation efforts while advising senior stakeholders and international business teams.

Leads end-to-end finance support for Global Partnerships business development deals, including financial modeling, business case development, deal structuring, approval governance, negotiations, contracting, KPI reporting, and process optimization. Partners with regional, corporate, account, and external stakeholders to evaluate complex opportunities, manage risks, ensure alignment, and support profitable business growth.

Manages financial planning and analysis for Mastercard’s real-time payments business, including reporting, budgeting, forecasting, strategic planning, revenue and expense analysis, business case review, product financials, and efficiency initiatives. Partners with global finance, product, engineering, tax, treasury, controllership, and regional teams to improve financial controls, processes, and business performance reporting.

Develops and commercializes innovative small-business payment solutions from ideation through piloting and launch. Owns product concepts, roadmaps, launch plans, business cases, and commercialization efforts while collaborating with product, engineering, research, design, customer, and global teams. Evaluates market opportunities using data-driven revenue and expense analysis, builds project pipelines, and manages relationships across Mastercard’s Foundry and Global Products organizations.

Leads financial crime compliance governance for Mastercard Transaction Services’ fiat, digital asset, crypto, and payment product intake. Assesses AML, sanctions, fraud, KYC, and transaction-monitoring risks; defines governance frameworks and controls; oversees compliance technology and operational requirements; manages risk assessments, issue remediation, reporting, and approvals; and coordinates stakeholders across Product, Legal, Finance, Compliance, MLRO, and global teams.

Leads Mastercard’s global SME market expansion strategy, owning growth initiatives, revenue, gross dollar volume, market share, and pipeline outcomes. Identifies priority markets, segments, payment flows, partnerships, and distribution channels; builds investment cases; oversees pilots and commercialization; and scales successful programs globally. Partners with Product, Sales, Marketing, Finance, regional teams, issuers, fintechs, platforms, and ecosystem partners while presenting strategies and performance to executive leadership.

Oversee accounting treatment and controls for customer business agreements under Mastercard policies and US GAAP. Advise on contract drafting, pricing implementation, billing, rebates, customer rates, and billing analysis. Coordinate European local reporting compliance with external providers and tax teams. Support audit and control activities while advancing AI and automation across Controller processes.

Provides legal counsel for global treasury operations and cross-border payment flows, including liquidity, foreign exchange, settlement, safeguarding, banking arrangements, and customer funds. Drafts and negotiates financial agreements, advises on AML/KYC, sanctions, regulatory and operational resilience requirements, supports market expansion, and develops legal controls, templates, policies, and playbooks. Partners with Treasury, Product, Operations, Technology, Compliance, Risk, and external counsel across jurisdictions.

Leads second-line-of-defense risk oversight for Mastercard’s Core Payments business and serves as Chief Risk Officer for Real Time Payments International entities. The role establishes risk governance, appetite, controls, reporting, escalation, and operating cadence across operational, credit, technology, cyber, conduct, third-party, and strategic risks. It partners with executives and regulators, supports examinations and remediation, provides independent challenge and assurance, and strengthens enterprise risk culture across jurisdictions.

Lead global commercialization for CA&E platforms by translating platform capabilities into clear narratives, GTM playbooks, demos, and enablement. Build scalable sales tools, run field enablement, partner cross-functionally to reflect roadmaps, and iterate using win/loss and field feedback to increase adoption and platform-led deals.

Drive B2B acceptance growth across the UK and Ireland by developing supplier, acquirer, issuer, fintech, and strategic partner relationships. Build opportunity pipelines, support partner go-to-market initiatives, create industry-specific sales strategies, and position commercial card acceptance within broader working capital and liquidity solutions. Engage senior finance stakeholders, activate suppliers, identify market opportunities, and coordinate cross-functional execution across Product, Sales, Services, Marketing, and Customer Delivery.

Manages first-line controls testing, certification audits, assurance activities, and compliance assessments across security frameworks. Evaluates control design and operating effectiveness, identifies gaps, tracks remediation, prepares audit documentation, and coordinates external audits. Supervises junior analysts, supports governance reporting, partners with control owners, and improves assurance methodologies. The role focuses on cybersecurity risk management, regulatory compliance, certification maintenance, and control effectiveness across complex technology environments.

Leads Mastercard Services business development by identifying client needs, developing recommendations, managing prospecting and proposal processes, coordinating contract execution, and building relationships with clients and internal stakeholders. Partners with account managers and project teams to identify opportunities, ensure project quality, align dependencies, and contribute consulting intellectual capital.

Leads finance business partnering for Mastercard’s Payment Networks and real-time payments organization. Oversees budgeting, forecasting, long-range planning, financial performance management, investment prioritization, risk mitigation, executive reporting, and strategic decision support. Partners with product, engineering, business, regional, and corporate finance leaders on business cases, pricing, partnerships, vendor economics, and operating models. Establishes financial governance and KPIs, improves processes, and leads, coaches, and develops a finance team.

Leads employee relations for the UK, Ireland, and broader European region. Advises managers and HR partners on employment policies, investigations, performance, disciplinary matters, absence management, reorganizations, TUPE, and termination risk. Partners with employment counsel and compliance, manages case documentation and reporting, analyzes ER data, and improves processes. Requires strong employment law knowledge, extensive employee relations experience, investigative judgment, project management, and communication skills in a multinational environment.

Lead infrastructure automation and DevOps engineering across public, private, and on-premises cloud environments. Build and optimize CI/CD pipelines, provision containerized and virtualized systems, implement Infrastructure as Code, and improve observability, reliability, scalability, and cost efficiency. Develop automation in Go, troubleshoot complex distributed systems, collaborate with global engineering teams, and align platform initiatives with business objectives.

Lead solution architecture for Mastercard's digital checkout and acceptance products. Support Business Development and Account Management with tailored value propositions, customer-facing technical discussions, product customization, bundling solutions, process and template creation, KPI tracking, and cross-functional coordination between sales, product, and technical teams to accelerate revenue and customer engagement.