Our Purpose

We work 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. We cultivate a culture of inclusion for all employees that respects their individual strengths, views, and experiences. We believe that our differences enable us to be a better team – one that makes better decisions, drives innovation and delivers better business results.

Title and Summary

Manager, Digital Innovation - Foundry

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
Mastercard Foundry is the innovation engine of Mastercard and a hub for new product development. We do this by driving product innovation in emerging technologies and interfaces while focusing on developing a point of view to enhance existing solutions and new use-cases. We also focus on building revenue generating ecosystems and flywheels that can be standalone in adjacent segments and markets. Examples of focus areas include Merchant Acceptance, Tokenization, Open Finance, New Commerce Interfaces, Future of Retail, and applications of Artificial Intelligence.

Within Foundry, the Manager, Digital Innovation will be a critical driver of new product development, including identification, execution, and in-market delivery of new Digital products and solutions. The responsibilities will include execution of near-term opportunities that drive significant in year revenue and strategic differentiation for Mastercard, as well as scoping, identification, in-market testing of longer-term product concepts and solutions.

Role:
• Uncover new trends and identify relevant opportunities in the future of payments.
• Present findings that translate complex concepts into simple, compelling narratives.
• Experiment quickly with proposed solutions via development of prototypes and proofs-of-concept.
• Develop go-to-market plan to deploy pilots and commercial solutions in market, in partnership with regional leads and sponsoring business units.
• Coordinate strategic, tactical efforts, and planning to facilitate execution and deployment of key priorities globally, partnering with cross-functional teams.
• Drive thought leadership and the learning agenda across key opportunity spaces and emerging technologies (e.g., Social Commerce, Generative AI).
• Build analytics and business cases to prove commercial value of products launched.
• Partner with cross-functional teams (e.g., Technology, Legal, Data Privacy, Delivery, Finance, Marketing, Sales, etc.) to develop concepts and navigate the product development lifecycle, from early-stage concept ideation through commercialization.
• Analyze and translate information into actionable insights and recommendations to drive business strategy and innovation.
• Manage assigned initiatives and compile updates to share progress with executive leadership.
• Mentor and provide guidance to junior team members.

All about you:
• Passion for innovation and emerging technology
• Strong problem solving, research, analytical and quantitative skills, with the ability to build business cases that articulate commercial value
• Experience in product management, fast prototyping and design thinking
• Experience in the evolution of digital payments, including key trends market, competitive and regulatory trends
• Excellent project management and organizational skills
• Strong track record of driving tangible business results
• Excellent presentation and communication skills, both drafting and presenting, oral and written
• Prior consulting, banking or emerging payments experience a plus
• Bachelor’s degree required, Advanced degree a plus
Corporate Security Responsibility
Every person working for, or on behalf of, Mastercard is responsible for information security. All activities involving access to Mastercard assets, information, and networks comes with an inherent risk to the organization and therefore, it is expected that the successful candidate for this position must:

• 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 the US, Mastercard is an inclusive Equal Employment 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. If you require accommodations or assistance to complete the online application process, please contact reasonable_accommodation@mastercard.com 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

All activities involving access to Mastercard assets, information, and networks comes with an inherent risk to the organization and, therefore, it is expected that every person working for, or on behalf of, Mastercard is responsible for information security and must:

• 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.

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