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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 Director, Finance Business Partner, A&CS Overview • Mastercard Services provides Consulting and Innovation Services, Insights & Analytics, Managed Services and more to customers around the world. These lines of business are supported by both Sales and Delivery organizations. • The Director will be part of the A&CS Global Finance Team and a strategic value added business partner to the A&CS Delivery team. He or she will provide vision, leadership and innovation while reporting and supporting short term and long term business and financial objectives. • The Director will be responsible for developing and managing relationships in a complex matrix organization with business partners at multiple career levels in the organization • Are you motivated to understand the complexity of a business unit and apply your learnings to identify insights, opportunities and risks, and partner with the Group Executive to achieve the business and financial goals? • Have you ever been part of a matrix global organization where your are the financial lead and driving force of the financials? • Do you enjoy mastering complex puzzles, where there are customers across the globe and you are responsible in understanding them and how they impact the P&L? Role • Planning & Analysis o Finance lead fo

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 Director, SME Growth Program Management Overview: SMEs are the backbone of the global economy and a key driver of Mastercard’s growth strategy. As both buyers and sellers within the payment ecosystem, they represent a significant opportunity to expand adoption, deepen engagement, and deliver innovative solutions that help businesses thrive. The Director, SME PMO & Strategic Execution will serve as the operational backbone of Mastercard's global SME business across the enterprise, ensuring priorities are translated into coordinated action and measurable outcomes. This role is responsible for driving cross-functional execution, governance, and accountability across the SME organization, partnering closely with senior leaders to align stakeholders, prioritize investments, and maximize business impact. As a trusted advisor and chief integrator, the Director will establish the operating rhythms, performance management processes, and decision-making frameworks that keep strategic initiatives on track. The role requires a highly collaborative leader who can influence across a complex global matrix, anticipate risks and dependencies, and bring teams together around shared objectives. The ideal candidate combines strong business acumen with exceptional program management and stakeholder leadership skills.

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 Director, Specialist Sales 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 (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 Across North America (U.S. & Canada), Small, and Medium Businesses (SMEs) are essential to economic growth, contributing significantly to employment and GDP. However, small businesses often face payment inefficiencies, relying on manual, cash, and check-based transactions that limit growth and financial access. Mastercard is dedicated to enabling businesses to grow and thrive in a digital-first economy. Our rallying cry is “Empowering Every Business, Everywhere”—this segment is central to Mastercard’s growth strategy, given its importance in the payments ecosystem as both payers and

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 Director Product Management - Technical About 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 help individuals, financial institutions, governments, and businesses realize their greatest potential. Role Summary We are looking for a **Principal Product Manager – Technical** to lead product strategy and execution for **global, real‑time switching and authorization platforms**.In this role, you will own the vision, roadmap, and delivery of **mission‑critical transaction processing capabilities** that operate at massive scale with strict requirements for availability, latency, resiliency, and correctness. You will work closely with engineering, architecture, operations, and business leaders to deliver platforms that support billions of transactions and enable reliable, secure payment experiences worldwide. This is a **senior individual contributor role** with broad influence across teams, regions, and portfolios. What You’ll Do Product Strategy & Vision* Define and own the long‑term product vision and strategy for switching and authori

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 Director, AI Engineering, Transformation Team Overview: The Transformation Team leads strategic change initiatives to reimagine how Mastercard works and scales, simplifies, and accelerates business outcomes. The team partners across leadership, product, technology, and operations to design and implement new organizational models, embed AI across key workflows, drive enterprise-wide transformation programs, improve operating effectiveness, and ensure successful adoption of change. By combining strategy, AI engineering, organizational design, change management, and program execution, the team helps align people, processes, and priorities to support long-term growth and business performance. Role: • This job develops and executes short-term and medium-term strategic plans for AI Engineering across Mastercard, aligning functional initiatives with organizational objectives by modifying existing methods to make significant improvements to existing processes, programs, and/or policies. • Drives the development and execution of short-term functional strategies for AI/ML teams, translating organizational priorities into actionable plans and deliverables. • Collaborates with product and business leaders to translate organizational needs into scalable AI solutions and operational strategies. • Ove

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 Director, Tax Overview: This role serves as the primary subject-matter expert on employment tax matters, working in close partnership with cross-functional stakeholders and external providers, to execute global employment tax initiatives, translates complex, multi-jurisdictional regulatory requirements into sustainable operating models, risk management, and serves as advisor on regulatory developments, and on complex employment tax matters affecting the global workforce across all jurisdictions in which the company operations. Role: • Execute and support global employment tax strategy, balancing compliance, risk mitigation, financial accuracy, operational efficiency, and cost optimization across all jurisdictions • Serve as a trusted advisor to internal stakeholders and business units on employment tax implications relating to workforce strategy, mobility programs, mergers and acquisitions, organizational restructuring, and evolving workforce models • Interpret, and operationalize complex employment tax and social security legislation, in alignment with company policies, internal controls, and governance • Lead tax planning initiatives and provide technical guidance on taxation of compensation and benefits, multi-jurisdictional taxation, recharge treatment and employer reporting and withholding requi

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 Director, Product Management 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 Director, Product Management 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

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 Director, Mastercard Transaction Services, Compliance Officer and Money Laundering Reporting Officer (MLRO) Mastercard Transaction Services (MTS) and its subsidiaries are the legal entities under which all Mastercard's licensed money transfer and payment initiation services will be conducted, reporting into the Commercial and New Payments Platform (CNPF) division. The MTS business unit and the MTS shared services functions are housed under the umbrella of MTS and are comprised of components central to the activities of a licensed payment services firm. These components include: • Payment/Money transmitter licenses for operating payments business in defined jurisdictions • Contract definition (associated T&Cs) specific to the MTS entity and its umbrella geographies • Associated settlement accounts and other services for the relevant MTS entity • Compliance services including, but not limited to, due diligence, real-time sanctions screening/AML/fraud management, etc. • Regulatory reporting to the relevant regulators on behalf of the regulated business and its subsequent activities MTS LAC (MTS Mexico) is the authorized and regulated licensed entity within Mastercard Transaction Services (MTS) in Mexico through which regulated payments activity is undertaken for our Mexico-based customers and other

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 Director, Customer Performance Who is Mastercard? Mastercard is a global technology company in the payments industry, operating as the world’s fastest payment processing network. Our mission is to connect and power an inclusive, digital economy that benefits consumers, financial institutions, merchants, governments and businesses in more than 210 countries and territories. Safety and security are top priorities and we continually find opportunities to make transactions safe, simple, smart, and accessible. Overview: Franchise is core to all Mastercard business. Franchise enables business growth and value, fostering interactions with customers which provides ongoing trust and confidence in the evolving payments and data driven ecosystem. This role enables high-risk acquirers to participate in the Mastercard global ecosystem by engaging directly with customers to improve ecosystem performance and strengthen participants’ understanding of business requirements. About the Role: With the growth of merchant fraud, acquirers must strengthen their screening of new merchants, as well as closely monitor new risk signals in transaction data, while ensuring their merchants remain compliant with local laws and Mastercard standards. To help acquirers achieve this, the Franchise team is looking for a fraud

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 Director, Risk Management Overview: The Core Payments Strategy & Execution team tackles critical strategic opportunities and challenges across Mastercard’s most foundational business. This role is suited for a senior risk leader with a passion for payments, innovation, and operating at enterprise scale. Mastercard powers an inclusive, digital economy that makes transactions safe, simple, smart, and accessible for everyone, everywhere. Through secure data, trusted networks, and strong partnerships, we help individuals, businesses, financial institutions, and governments realize their greatest potential. Our Decency Quotient (DQ) shapes how we operate—guiding a culture of inclusion, collaboration, and integrity that enables better decisions, stronger innovation, and better outcomes. Role Description: The Director, Risk Management – Core Payments is a senior risk leader responsible for supporting the design, execution, and continuously strengthening the risk management framework supporting Mastercard’s Core Payments business. This role partners closely with business leadership and the second and third lines of defense to anticipate, mitigate, and remediate risk while enabling responsible growth. This position requires deep expertise in enterprise risk management, regulatory environments, and operational r

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 Director, Product Management - Tokenization Role Summary The Director, Product Management – Tokenization is responsible for defining and executing the strategic vision, product roadmap, and commercialization of tokenization solutions across the digital payment ecosystems. This role will lead the product development, deployment and scaling of tokenization capabilities that enhance payment security, enable digital experiences, support ecosystem partners, and drive payment innovation. The successful candidate will collaborate closely with issuing and acquiring partners, card schemes, digital wallet providers, merchants, fintechs, technology teams, risk, compliance, and external stakeholders to deliver secure, scalable, and commercially successful tokenization products. Key Responsibilities Product Strategy & Leadership - Define and own the tokenization product strategy aligned with business objectives and market opportunities. - Act as a support function to the markets and help accelerate market plans - Develop and maintain a multi-year product roadmap for payment tokenization services. - Identify emerging industry trends, technologies, regulations, and competitive developments impacting tokenization and digital payments. - Drive innovation across card-on-file, network tokenization, wa

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 Director, Accounting Overview: The Director, Accounting reports to the VP, Controller – Technology, and supports the TECH Controllership team based in St. Louis, MO and Purchase, NY. This role is critical to maintaining the integrity of financial statements by overseeing key accounting, financial reporting, and internal control activities. The Director will also help build and manage a team that supports TECH Controllership and will serve as a trusted advisor and liaison across Corporate Controllership, SOX, Internal Audit, Tax, Legal, and Shared Services functions. Role: - Oversee key accounting and financial reporting procedures for monthly, quarterly, and year-end close activities in support of the TECH Controllership team. - Support accounting, internal controls, and compliance activities, including Mastercard policies, Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX), and Operational Risk Management (ORM), and communicate potential exposures to leadership. - Liaise with Regional Controllers on global initiatives to support consistency and accuracy across regions. - Periodically review processes to ensure risks are appropriately mitigated based on control design and evolving business processes. - Identify opportunities to implement AI and automated solutions to streamline processes. - Partner with Fina

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 Director, Strategic Insights & Analytics Overview: Overview The Director, Strategic Insights & Analytics plays a key role in the Global Portfolio Optimization (GPO) team. This lead is responsible to drive enablement of portfolio performance management by leveraging advanced analytics to prioritize and accelerate opportunity conversion at scale. Main Responsibilities: • Member of GPO Target Team (Insights, Analytics Data, Performance, KPIs) • Key Contributor of Key/Strategic Methodology Stage and Assets of Portfolio Optimization Methodology (Business Performance Management/Data/Insights/Data Anchored Value for Customers) • Drive/Support Development of Performance Analytics capabilities & tools • Deliver BAU Performance Analytics output and develop new capabilities, expanded scope/KPIs, etc. Leveraging research, analytics and industry insights to create value for clients • Delivery of Annual Portfolio Optimization Opportunity Sizing & Prioritization Output & Packaging/Maintenance • Data Visualization of Data Output & Efficient Delivery of output to Key Regional & Functional Stakeholders • Global KPI Definition, Management & Insight & Recommendations Development- Identify, prioritize the challenges that stand in the way of customer efficiency, growth and sus

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 Director, Product Management, Rewards - Enterprise Loyalty Overview: Mastercard’s Loyalty team is part of Consumer Acquisition and Engagement (CA & E) and works with leading financial institutions, retailers, airlines, and digital partners to deliver loyalty capabilities that improve customer engagement and create measurable business value. The team’s rewards products help clients modernize rewards, expand consumer choice, increase program value, and deliver more seamless loyalty experiences across channels and markets. The Director, Product Management, Enterprise Loyalty will help shape the global product strategy for Enterprise Loyalty, define how new capabilities come to market, and support commercialization across regions. This role will partner across Product, Marketing, Sales, Delivery, Servicing, regional teams, and external partners to build clear product narratives, strengthen go-to-market execution, and ensure rewards solutions deliver measurable value for clients, consumers, and Mastercard. Role and Responsibilities: • Contribute to the global product strategy and roadmap for Enterprise Loyalty, with a focus on client value, market relevance, and scalable growth. • Translate client needs, market insights, and business priorities into clear product opportunities, roadmap recommend

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 Employee Relations Director 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: Mastercard is looking for an experienced Employee Relations professional to join its Global Employee Relations team. Working closely with the People Business Partners, employment law, compliance and business stakeholders, the desired candidate will develop and leverage ER best practices and processes to support our culture of decency and fairness consistent with Mastercard values and local laws. The role will be based in London, Angel Lane on a hybrid work schedule (3 days per week in office). All About the Role • Provide expert advice to People Business Partners, managers and employees about comp