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Vice President, Strategy & Operations
Mastercard International Incorporated · 🇺🇸 New York City, New York
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, Strategy & Operations Overview: The NAM Strategy & Operations team leads key strategic initiatives for the NAM region, providing analytics and insights to drive business results, monitoring risks, assisting with the articulation of market strategy and progress against it, supporting the Presidents of the US and CAN markets. The Vice President of Strategy & Operations is a multi-dimensional position focused on driving growth across the NAM Digital Partnerships and Fintech (DP&F) Sales teams, reporting to the Senior Vice President of Strategy & Operations for NAM. The role is responsible for driving growth by creating, assessing, and managing business opportunities and will have oversight of Strategy Execution, as well as manage high priority strategic initiatives for the DP&F segment. Additional responsibilities include leading a team of 3 high performing sales analysts, working across the NAM Executive team with other relevant functional leads on developing and assessing the region’s key DP&F strategic priorities. The role will focus on driving rigor around go-to-market strategies, analytic insights, acceptance deal strategies, and long-term regional strategies to capture opportunities and mitigate risks, and extend these best practices across the team. The Vice President of Strategy & Operations, DP&F will possess a solid understanding of the payments industry, digital partnership & fintech landscape, Mastercard’s analytic capabilities, and how to weave opportunities into the segment’s already ambitious objectives. Role: - Lead DP&F analytical and strategic insights, as well as thought leadership to drive priority initiatives with quantitative and qualitative analysis and recommendations to support NAM DP&F and US Executive Leadership. - Manage NAM DP&F performance across payment trends, regulatory changes and tracking to team targets. - Drive Acceptance modeling for net new DP&F opportunities alongside the account teams and BD Finance teams. - Engage cross-functional teams and be an analytical resource to other teams across NAM. - Manage a team of high performing sales analysts in the US, focused on DP&F accounts. Support team with development, sharing best practices and identifying opportunities to drive value to the NAM organization. All About You: Qualifications - Passion for Mastercard and working in a fast-paced sales environment to drive results. Experience in leading teams (either direct or cross-functional) to drive data-backed recommendations, insights, and the creation and execution of strategies. - Undergraduate degree with a focus in Finance, Accounting, Engineering, Economics is preferred; attainment of a MBA, CFA, and/or CPA, is desirable. - Proven ability to analyze, evaluate and make recommendations on strategic questions. - Strategic – can understand ‘the big picture’ and exercise good business judgment. - Problem solver – can structure, break down, and solve complex business issues. - Analytical – can analyze and draw conclusions from large and/or complex data sources (both qualitative and quantitative data sets). - Communicator – can synthesize ideas and thinking for sharing with others. - Self-directed – can manage his/her own work in a fast-changing environment. - Colla