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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 Senior Specialist, Talent Acquisition (12 Month FTC) Overview The Talent Acquisition team is looking for a Senior Specialist, Talent Acquisition on a 12 month fixed term contract to support our Core Payments, Commercial New Payment Flows and International Marketing Communications organisations with a primary focus on sales and product recruitment across Europe. You would be responsible for managing the end to end hiring process for our candidates, sourcing great talent for our teams and proactively delivering a high-quality experience for both candidates and hiring managers alike. The ideal candidate is passionate about the candidate and hiring manager experience journey, highly motivated, intellectually curious, loves engaging and sourcing new talent, and possesses an organised mindset (with the ability to navigate complex matrix environments). All About the Role • Managing requisitions across three business units with a focus on but not limited to product and sales. • Serves as the point of contact for internal and external candidates, initial hires, business groups and divisions. • Collaborate with stakeholders to tailor strategies to attract the best talent in the external market. • Collaborating with hiring managers to create job ads for current openings. • Advertising job openings on

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 Senior Product Manager -Technical Who is Mastercard? At Mastercard, we are revolutionizing the payments industry with cutting-edge technology. Our mission is to foster an inclusive, digital economy that empowers everyone, everywhere by making transactions safe, simple, smart and accessible. Through secure data and networks, strategic partnerships and our unwavering passion, we enable individuals, financial institutions, governments and businesses to achieve their highest 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 The Switching Solutions team is looking for a passionate, collaborative and experienced Senior Product Manager- Technical that will provide innovative, secure, and reliable solutions for core Mastercard transaction switching systems. The ideal candidate is passionate about connecting business with technology, highly motivated, and an innovator who embraces, adopts and studies the latest technology trends. In this Role you will: Be responsible for working with various product teams across Mastercard to understand their business needs and translate to business and functional

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 Principal Product Architect Mastercard powers economies and empowers people in more than 200 countries and territories worldwide. Together with our customers, we are building a sustainable economy where everyone can prosper. Through secure, simple and accessible digital payments, our technology, partnerships and networks help people, businesses and governments reach their full potential. A2A Risk Solutions: Principal Product Architect We are seeking a Principal Product Architect to join our award-winning Account-to-Account (A2A) Risk Solutions team. Our products combine advanced data science and payments expertise to help financial institutions combat fraud and financial crime. This role will be central to designing and scaling Mastercard's global A2A Risk Solutions. Working closely with product, engineering, data science, customers, financial institutions and technology partners, you will define scalable architecture patterns, shape technology strategy and support expansion into new markets. Responsibilities Define and maintain solution architectures that align with business objectives, product requirements and architectural principles. Translate business, customer and market requirements into scalable, secure and resilient technical designs. Lead architecture for A2A fraud and f

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 Senior Technical Program Manager Overview Are you a technical program manager who wants to work for a company that offers above and beyond benefits including paid parental leave, flexible work hours, gift matching, and even volunteer incentives? Do you want to work in an inclusive and nurturing culture that encourages your own professional learning and development? At Mastercard, our industry expertise is enhanced by our commitment to being a force for good in the world. We do well by doing good. Our core values of trust, partnership, agility and thoughtful risk taking are displayed in everything we do. Our culture of collaboration and inclusion makes our company the place where the best people choose to be. Come join us! ROLE Mastercard Data and Services (D&S) harnesses the power of Mastercard's transaction data to help Fortune 500 companies make multimillion-dollar business decisions. The D&S Data Delivery team is hiring a Senior Technical Program Manager to lead data integration strategy on some of our technically demanding client engagements. Responsibilities will include: • Proactively manage the end-to-end delivery of data engineering work on one or more client engagements, reporting out progress, ensuring dependencies are covered, overseeing the gaps between teams, processes

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 Data Scientist What is the opportunity? We are seeking a highly skilled and motivated Data Scientist to join our Cyber Analytics team within the Security Solutions Data Science organization. This role is critical to driving advanced analytics initiatives, improving fraud detection capabilities, and supporting strategic decision-making across cybersecurity and payment fraud domains. What will you do? • Gain subject matter knowledge on web application security, commonly exploited cyber vulnerabilities, and methods of online and payment card fraud including the common points of purchase for compromised cards. • Build, develop, and maintain innovative data-driven analytical solutions, including predictive models and machine learning algorithms, on large volumes of data to support analytics and reporting needs across products, markets, and services. • Competently handle large datasets, sifting for patterns and trends and translating those insights into technical rules and solutions. • Combine cybersecurity and transaction data into new and insightful views of fraud and vulnerability across the Mastercard network. • Collaborate with cross-functional teams including product, engineering, and operations to understand product, usage, and data pipelines as well as delivering scalable solutions. • T

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 Manager, Tax Overview: This role is responsible for supporting global employment tax compliance, advisory, risk management, and project execution activities. The role serves as a key technical resource and works closely with regional stakeholders and external advisors to ensure operational excellence and compliance across global employment tax processes. Role: • Support internal stakeholders on federal, state, and local employment tax compliance activities, such as reviewing tax notices, statutory tax filings, and reconciliations • Assist in research to support tax positions, resolve multi-state withholding issues, reciprocity agreements, nonresident allocation questions, and cross-border tax implications • Assist in taxation and reporting of equity compensation and incentive plans (RSUs, stock options, ESPP, ISIP-type plans) across jurisdictions, including year-end true-ups, and recharge arrangement considerations. • Provide tax guidance to cross-functional partners on the employment tax implications of compensation, benefits, travel & expense programs, and remote/flexible work arrangements globally. • Collaborate with stakeholders to develop processes and procedures to ensure accurate tax reporting and withholdings on employee compensation and benefits including long-term incentives and bonus

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 Specialist, Product Express Reporting and Analytics Job Title Specialist - Product Express Reporting and Analytics 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 Product Express is a no-code process orchestration and data capture platform. Product Express makes it simple, fast and transparent for Customers to adopt Mastercard products and services, directly and/or with our ecosystem partners. Customers can easily select the best payment solutions for their needs, quickly identify the right partners to implement them – when partners are relevant, and progress from application to launch with full transparency at every step. Part of Mastercard Optimization tea

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 Analyst, Media Planning Overview The US Media Analyst assists with the development, execution, and measurement of integrated media campaigns across key business priorities, product launches, and audience segments. Reporting to the US Media Director, this role partners cross-functionally with Marketing, Finance, Product, Research, and Agency teams to ensure campaigns are delivered with operational excellence. The Analyst works closely with the media agency to oversee campaign setup, execution, optimization, and reporting, helping drive effective and efficient media investments. This is an exciting opportunity for a media professional looking to expand their executional expertise while contributing to the growth of a high-profile brand and business in a fast-paced, collaborative environment. Role: Campaign Management • Support U.S. media team in planning and execution of integrated media campaigns across digital, social, video, search, programmatic, CTV and emerging channels. • Track campaign launches and ensure flawless execution. • Assist with planning deliverables, including audience sizing, channel mix, partner consideration set, budget allocation, timelines, and approvals across internal and external partners. • Work closely with the cross-functional marketing and product team

Scale Labs, Research Scientist — Agent Robustness As the leading data and evaluation partner for frontier AI companies, Scale plays an integral role in understanding the capabilities and safeguarding AI models and systems. Building on this expertise, Scale Labs has launched a new team focused on policy research, to bridge the gap between AI research and global policymakers to make informed, scientific decisions about AI risks and capabilities. Our research tackles the hardest problems in agent robustness, AI control protocols, and AI risk evaluations to help governments, industry, and the public understand and mitigate AI risk while maximizing AI adoption. This team collaborates broadly across industry, the public sector, and academia and regularly publishes our findings. We are actively seeking talented researchers to join us in shaping this vision. As a Research Scientist working on Agent Robustness you will work on the fundamental challenges of building AI agents that are safe and aligned with humans. For example, you might: Research the science of AI agent capabilities with a focus on how they relate to safety, risk factors, and methodologies for benchmarking them; Design and build harnesses to test AI agents’ tendency to take harmful actions when pressured to do so by users or tricked into doing so by elements of their environment; Design and build exploits and mitigations for new and unique failure modes that arise as AI agents gain affordances like coding, web browsing, and computer use; Characterize and design mitigations for potential failure modes or broader risks of systems involving multiple interacting AI agents. Ideally you’d have: Commitment to our mission of promoting safe, secure, and trustworthy AI deployments in the industry as frontier AI capabilities continue to advance. Practical experience conducting technical research collaboratively. You should be comfortable building and leveraging agent scaffolding, designing evaluation harnesses, an

Scale Labs, Research Scientist — AI Controls and Monitoring As the leading data and evaluation partner for frontier AI companies, Scale plays an integral role in understanding the capabilities and safeguarding AI models and systems. Building on this expertise, Scale Labs has launched a new team focused on policy research, to bridge the gap between AI research and global policymakers to make informed, scientific decisions about AI risks and capabilities. Our research tackles the hardest problems in agent robustness, AI control protocols, and AI risk evaluations to help governments, industry, and the public understand and mitigate AI risk while maximizing AI adoption. This team collaborates broadly across industry, the public sector, and academia and regularly publishes our findings. We are actively seeking talented researchers to join us in shaping this vision. As a Research Scientist focused on AI Controls and Monitoring, you will design methods, systems, and experiments to ensure that advanced AI models and agents remain aligned with intended goals, even in high-stakes or adversarial environments. For example, you might: Develop monitoring techniques and observability methods that track AI behavior in real time to identify and flag deviations, emergent capabilities, or anomalous outputs; Research mechanisms for layered control, including fail-safes, oversight protocols, and intervention methods that can halt or redirect AI systems when risks are detected; Design red-team simulations to probe weaknesses in oversight and control mechanisms, and build mitigations to close identified gaps; Collaborate with policymakers, engineers, and other researchers to establish standards and benchmarks for AI monitoring and escalation. Ideally you’d have: Commitment to our mission of promoting safe, secure, and trustworthy AI deployments in the industry as frontier AI capabilities continue to advance. Practical experience conducting technical research collaboratively. You should be

About Scale At Scale AI, our mission is to accelerate the development of AI applications. For 8 years, Scale has been the leading AI data foundry, helping fuel the most exciting advancements in AI, including: generative AI, defense applications, and autonomous vehicles. With our recent Series F round, we’re accelerating the abundance of frontier data to pave the road to Artificial General Intelligence (AGI), and building upon our prior model evaluation work with enterprise customers and governments, to deepen our capabilities and offerings for both public and private evaluations. About the ACE team The Agent Capabilities & Environments (ACE) team, part of Scale’s Research organization, brings together customer-facing Researchers and Applied AI Engineers. Our core mission includes research on agent environments and RL reward signals, benchmarking autonomous agent performance across real-world scenarios and environments, creating robust data programs to improve Large Language Models (LLMs) agentic capabilities and building foundational tools and frameworks for evaluating models as agents. ACE focuses on autonomous agents that dynamically interact with diverse external environments, including code repositories, GUI interfaces, browsers, and more. About This Role This role is at the intersection of cutting-edge AI research and practical application, with a focus on studying the data types essential for building state-of-the-art agents, such as browser and SWE agents. The ideal candidate will explore the data landscape needed to advance intelligent, adaptable AI agents, guiding the data strategy at Scale to drive innovation. This position requires not only expertise in LLM agents and planning algorithms but also creativity in addressing novel challenges related to data, interaction, and evaluation. You will contribute to impactful research publications on agents, collaborate with customer researchers, and work alongside the engineering team to translate t

Scale Labs, Research Scientist — Safety Post Training As the leading data and evaluation partner for frontier AI companies, Scale plays an integral role in understanding the capabilities and safeguarding AI models and systems. Building on this expertise, Scale Labs has launched a new team focused on policy research, to bridge the gap between AI research and global policymakers to make informed, scientific decisions about AI risks and capabilities. Our research tackles the hardest problems in agent robustness, AI control protocols, and AI risk evaluations to help governments, industry, and the public understand and mitigate AI risk while maximizing AI adoption. This team collaborates broadly across industry, the public sector, and academia and regularly publishes our findings. We are actively seeking talented researchers to join us in shaping this vision. As a Research Scientist working on Safety Post-Training you will develop and apply post-training methods and interpretability techniques to make frontier AI systems safer, and better understood by researchers and policymakers.. For example, you might: Design and run post-training pipelines to study how training choices affect model safety, robustness, and alignment properties; Develop interpretability-informed evaluations that reveal how and why models produce unsafe, deceptive, or otherwise undesirable behaviors, and use those insights to guide targeted mitigations; Collaborate with policymakers, engineers, and other researchers to translate post-training and interpretability findings into actionable safety standards, evaluation benchmarks, and best practices. Ideally you’d have: Commitment to our mission of promoting safe, secure, and trustworthy AI deployments in the industry as frontier AI capabilities continue to advance. Experience with post-training and RL techniques such as RLHF, DPO, GRPO, and similar approaches. A track record of published research in machine learning, particularly in generati

About Scale At Scale AI, our mission is to accelerate the development of AI applications. For 8 years, Scale has been the leading AI data foundry, helping fuel the most exciting advancements in AI, including: generative AI, defense applications, and autonomous vehicles. With our recent Series F round, we’re accelerating the abundance of frontier data to pave the road to Artificial General Intelligence (AGI), and building upon our prior model evaluation work with enterprise customers and governments, to deepen our capabilities and offerings for both public and private evaluations. About Data Engine Our Generative AI Data Engine powers the world’s most advanced LLMs and generative models through world-class RLHF (Reinforcement Learning with Human Feedback), human data generation, model evaluation, safety, and alignment. The data we are producing is some of the most important work for how humanity will interact with AI. Our Approach As part of the interview process, you’ll be considered for opportunities across several teams within the GenAI Engineering organization, based on your interests, expertise, and business needs. Potential team placements include Allocation, Growth, Frontier Data, Trust & Safety, Pay, Operator, or Tasking Experience. Together, these teams power Scale’s AI data operations - from building high-impact datasets that push the boundaries of LLM capabilities, to optimizing contributor onboarding and incentives, to safeguarding data integrity through advanced trust, safety, and security measures. They work at the intersection of ML, operations, and analytics to ensure we deliver the highest-quality data at scale. Responsibilities: Design, build, and maintain robust, scalable systems across the full stack, including front-end, back-end, and infrastructure layers Implement high-impact features using modern technologies such as TypeScript, React, Node.js, MongoDB, Elasticsearch, and Temporal Collaborate closely with internal operators (your use