Vice President, Product Development, Digital Commerce Services

Location: San Francisco, California

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

Overview

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.

The Digital Commerce Services organization sits within the Digital Payments organization. We are focused on enabling innovative and seamless commerce experiences by combining Mastercard's payment capabilities with emerging technologies, platforms, and partner ecosystems. Through strategic partnerships and scalable platform capabilities, we help merchants, technology providers, mobility leaders, and digital commerce platforms accelerate adoption of secure, frictionless payment experiences.

This role is responsible for driving strategic partner engagements and solution development across emerging commerce initiatives, including biometric checkout, connected device payments, EV charging experiences, and other next-generation commerce opportunities. The role also oversees the Acceptance Accelerator Platform, ensuring Mastercard's capabilities can be efficiently integrated, scaled, and commercialized across a broad ecosystem of partners.

Role

The Vice President role is responsible for identifying, shaping, and scaling innovative commerce experiences through strategic partner engagement, solution development, and platform management.

This leader works directly with global technology companies, merchants, payment platforms, OEMs, and mobility ecosystem participants to understand market needs, design solutions that embed Mastercard capabilities within partner experiences, and influence product roadmap priorities. The role serves as a bridge between external partners and internal product, engineering, and commercialization teams to accelerate market adoption of Mastercard's digital payment solutions.

The Vice President also leads the strategy, roadmap, and delivery of the Acceptance Accelerator Platform, ensuring the platform evolves to support emerging commerce use cases and partner requirements.

Responsibilities

Strategic Partnerships & Solution Development

• Develop and manage strategic relationships with technology companies, merchants, payment platforms, OEMs, EV manufacturers, charging point operators, and other ecosystem partners.
• Partner directly with organizations such as Amazon, PayPal, Microsoft, and emerging commerce providers to identify opportunities to embed Mastercard capabilities within partner platforms, devices, and customer experiences.
• Support Mastercard's biometric checkout initiatives by designing and scaling innovative authentication and payment experiences in collaboration with external partners.
• Translate partner needs, customer feedback, and market trends into product requirements, business cases, and roadmap recommendations.
• Drive solution design efforts that balance customer experience, technical feasibility, scalability, and commercial value.

Product & Platform Leadership

• Own the strategy, roadmap, and ongoing evolution of the Acceptance Accelerator Platform.
• Partner with Product and Engineering teams to prioritize platform enhancements that improve partner onboarding, integration capabilities, and scalability.
• Ensure platform capabilities align with emerging market opportunities and support Mastercard's broader digital commerce objectives.
• Define success metrics and monitor platform adoption, partner engagement, and business outcomes.

Commercialization & Cross-Functional Execution

• Partner with market development, account management, engineering, legal, franchise, and customer experience teams to drive successful implementation and commercialization of solutions.
• Identify opportunities to accelerate customer adoption and expand Mastercard's presence in emerging commerce ecosystems.
• Monitor competitive developments, technology trends, and evolving customer demands to inform partner strategy and platform investments.
• Represent Mastercard in partner discussions, industry forums, and customer engagements related to emerging commerce and digital payment innovation.

All About You

• Deep understanding of digital payments, ecommerce, authentication, tokenization, and emerging commerce technologies.
• Experience building and managing strategic partnerships with technology companies, merchants, payment platforms, fintechs, OEMs, or mobility ecosystem participants.
• Demonstrated success translating customer needs and partner requirements into scalable product and platform solutions.
• Strong product management and solution development experience, including defining requirements and influencing product roadmaps.
• Ability to engage effectively with both technical and business stakeholders and drive alignment across complex partner ecosystems.
• Experience working across cross-functional teams including Product, Engineering, Business Development, Legal, and Customer Experience.
• Strong commercial acumen with the ability to evaluate business opportunities, develop value propositions, and support go-to-market efforts.
• Proven ability to operate independently, influence without authority, and manage multiple strategic initiatives simultaneously.

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 [email protected] 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

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 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.

THIS POSTING RELECTS ONE OR MORE CURRENT VACANCIES ON OUR TEAM, AND MASTERCARD INTENDS TO FILL THIS POSITION BY 01/19/2027. If the fill date has passed, Mastercard intends to fill this position as soon as possible.

Pay Ranges

• San Francisco, California: $245,000 - $391,000 USD
• New York City, New York: $245,000 - $391,000 USD
• Additional Locations: New York City, New York