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Vice President- AI, Center of Excellence
Mastercard International Incorporated · 🇺🇸 9 Locations
Sponsorship verdict
Sponsorship possible
One solid signal, not two — worth applying, and worth asking about sponsorship early.
- Employer is on a government sponsor recordThe US Department of Labor certified 76 H-1B/E-3 labor condition applications for this employer between Oct 2025 and Jun 2026 (latest Jun 2026) — the step every H-1B hire needs first. USCIS also records 286 H-1B approvals in FY2023. Source: LCA disclosure data (US Department of Labor (OFLC)).
- The posting doesn’t mention sponsorshipSilence isn’t a refusal — ask the recruiter before investing much time.
- No salary bar for this routeH-1B has no fixed salary bar: the employer must pay at least the prevailing wage for the role and area. Cap-subject employers enter a lottery weighted by wage level. Source: https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/12/29/2025-23853/weighted-selection-process-for-registrants-and-petitioners-seeking-to-file-cap-subject-h-1b, rules effective 2026-02-27.
- What Mastercard International Incorporated paid sponsored hires in similar roles1 certified filing for “Senior Vice President, Cardholder Services” (General and Operations Managers) in NY: $241k–$241k, median $241k. Most were filed at wage level IV (100%) — 4 lottery entries, ≈61% projected selection odds for cap-subject employers. Source: US Department of Labor LCA disclosure data (Oct 2025 – Jun 2026).
- Confirmed live todayWhen a source last listed this job as open.
US H-1B: cap-subject employers enter a lottery weighted by wage level — Level I gets 1 entry, Level IV gets 4 (DHS projected selection odds ≈15% at Level I to ≈61% at Level IV). Universities and non-profit research employers are cap-exempt. The $100,000 fee for new petitions from abroad is currently blocked by a court order (appeal pending).
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Sponsor Radar — Mastercard International Incorporated
The US Department of Labor certified 76 H-1B/E-3 labor condition applications for this employer between Oct 2025 and Jun 2026 (latest Jun 2026) — the step every H-1B hire needs first. USCIS also records 286 H-1B approvals in FY2023. Source: LCA disclosure data (US Department of Labor (OFLC)).
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About the role
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 Vice President- AI, Center of Excellence Vice President, AI Engineering - AI CoE Mastercard | AI Center of Excellence 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. 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. Overview: The AI Center of Excellence is seeking a Vice President, AI Engineering - AI CoE to lead the delivery and scale of enterprise AI products, agentic AI solutions, and new and evolving AI capabilities across Mastercard. This is a people manager role leading a global AI Engineering organization responsible for moving AI from experimentation to production-grade, reusable products and capabilities. The Vice President will focus on AI engineering delivery and execution, translating business priorities into AI solutions, shared capabilities, and measurable outcomes while ensuring security, reliability, governance, and operational excellence. About the Role: • Lead end-to-end AI engineering delivery from solution design through development, production deployment, adoption, and value realization. • Build and scale reusable AI assets, agent patterns, multi-agent orchestration, workflow automation, shared components, and new and evolving AI capabilities that accelerate delivery and reduce duplication. • Drive execution against prioritized business needs, ensuring AI initiatives deliver measurable business value. • Partner across AI Platform Engineering, Infrastructure, Data, Security, Architecture, Risk, Product, and business teams to deliver secure, scalable enterprise AI solutions. • Own production readiness, including reliability, resiliency, observability, scalability, lifecycle management, and operational performance. • Embed Responsible AI, security, privacy, governance, compliance, and auditability throughout the AI engineering lifecycle. • Drive adoption and measure product performance, customer impact, productivity, risk reduction, and business outcomes. • Lead and develop a global organization of AI engineering leaders, architects, and AI engineers, building talent, accountability, and engineering excellence. All About You: • Years of leadership experience in AI engineering, software or product engineering, or enterprise technology delivery. • Proven success delivering and scaling enterprise AI products, agentic AI applications, intelligent automation, or mission-critical digital platforms. • Strong technical understanding of agentic AI, generative AI, large language models (LLMs), multi-agent orchestration, workflow automation, and new and evolving AI capabilities. • Experience with hybrid cloud and cloud-native architectures, distributed systems, APIs, enterprise integration, and modern AI engineering. • Experience leading production technology in highly regulated environments with accountability for security, resiliency, governance, compliance, and risk. • Demonstrated ability to drive complex, cross-functional engineering delivery and execution at enterprise scale. • Proven people leader