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Leads planning and delivery for complex technical programs across the payments portfolio. Owns roadmaps, forecasts, budgets, headcount, dependencies, risks, milestones, and executive reporting. Partners with Product, Engineering, Operations, Finance, architects, and technical leaders to align priorities, remove blockers, manage trade-offs, and deliver business outcomes. Requires strong influence without authority, analytical problem-solving, communication, and comfort operating across ambiguous, global, cross-functional environments.

Drive Mastercard’s SME revenue growth across North America through channel partners and ecosystem relationships. Develop sales strategies and pipelines, identify opportunities, position payment and financial solutions, negotiate contracts, and close deals. Collaborate with product, marketing, and partnerships teams on go-to-market execution, product differentiation, innovation, and sales enablement. Build relationships with fintechs, acquirers, issuers, and other payment ecosystem participants while tracking performance and representing Mastercard at industry events.

Supports senior executives with calendar management, scheduling, travel arrangements, expense reporting, meeting coordination, communications, records, budgets, contract administration, and departmental projects. Maintains spreadsheets and databases, researches assigned topics, prepares reports and presentations, and serves as an administrative liaison across the company. Requires strong organizational, relationship-management, prioritization, communication, multitasking, and problem-solving skills, along with proficiency in Microsoft Office and Oracle.

Leads AI engineering strategy and execution across Mastercard, overseeing AI/ML architecture, deployment, monitoring, optimization, governance, and risk management. Partners with product, technology, data science, and business leaders to deliver scalable AI solutions and measurable business impact. Provides technical mentorship, establishes engineering standards, evaluates emerging technologies, and guides enterprise transformation through generative AI and machine learning.

Lead the engineering strategy, architecture, execution, and organizational growth of Mastercard’s AI-native Decision Stream platform. Drive scalable distributed systems, cloud-native architecture, reliability, security, and technical excellence while partnering with Product, Architecture, AI, and Platform Engineering. Recruit and develop high-performing teams, establish engineering metrics, and deliver business outcomes across fraud, authentication, payments, and risk decisioning.

Develop predictive models and machine-learning solutions for cybersecurity, payment fraud detection, and vulnerability analytics. Analyze large datasets using distributed processing, identify patterns, create technical rules, integrate cybersecurity and transaction data, and design performance metrics. Collaborate with product, engineering, and operations teams, translate stakeholder needs into analytical solutions, and communicate insights to leadership. The role also involves graph databases and graph machine learning, including graph neural networks.

Leads a strategic North American acquiring-partner relationship and accelerates revenue growth for Mastercard Merchant Cloud. Responsibilities include account leadership, sales pipeline development, go-to-market strategy, product commercialization, sales enablement, market activation, business-case development, and cross-functional coordination. The role drives adoption of bundled acceptance and value-added services while scaling commercialization processes and training teams across the enterprise.

Leads Mastercard’s corporate development strategy, including identifying, evaluating, and executing acquisitions, equity investments, divestitures, and joint ventures. Develops investment profiles, market analyses, financial models, valuations, business cases, synergy plans, and integration strategies. Presents recommendations to executives and the Board, assesses financial risks, partners with business leaders, engages investors and financial institutions, and mentors strategy team members.

Supports Mastercard’s global mergers, acquisitions, and equity investment activity. Responsibilities include researching opportunities, assessing strategic fit, building valuation models and business cases, coordinating due diligence and deal execution, planning integrations, and preparing materials for senior executives and the Board. Requires strong financial modeling, accounting, valuation, communication, and analytical skills, with prior M&A, investment banking, corporate development, or transaction advisory experience.

Lead global communications for Mastercard’s consumer payments portfolio, advising the Chief Consumer Product Officer and senior product leaders. Develop product narratives, thought leadership, executive visibility, media strategies, customer engagement programs, launches, and integrated campaigns across earned, owned, social, digital, and experiential channels. Translate complex payments technologies into accessible stories, coach spokespeople, manage communications materials, support industry events, and coordinate cross-functional and regional teams while measuring communications impact.