Vice President, Product Development, Digital Commerce Services

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, Product Development, Digital Commerce Services Overview 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. The Digital Commerce Services organization sits within the Digital Payments organization. We are focused on enabling innovative and seamless commerce experiences by combining Mastercard's payment capabilities with emerging technologies, platforms, and partner ecosystems. Through strategic partnerships and scalable platform capabilities, we help merchants, technology providers, mobility leaders, and digital commerce platforms accelerate adoption of secure, frictionless payment experiences. This role is responsible for driving strategic partner engagements and solution development across emerging commerce initiatives, including biometric checkout, connected device payments, EV charging experiences, and other next-generation commerce opportunities. The role also oversees the Acceptance Accelerator Platform, ensuring Mastercard's capabilities can be efficiently integrated, scaled, and commercialized across a broad ecosystem of partners. Role The Vice President role is responsible for identifying, shaping, and scaling innovative commerce experiences through strategic partner engagement, solution development, and platform management. This leader works directly with global technology companies, merchants, payment platforms, OEMs, and mobility ecosystem participants to understand market needs, design solutions that embed Mastercard capabilities within partner experiences, and influence product roadmap priorities. The role serves as a bridge between external partners and internal product, engineering, and commercialization teams to accelerate market adoption of Mastercard's digital payment solutions. The Vice President also leads the strategy, roadmap, and delivery of the Acceptance Accelerator Platform, ensuring the platform evolves to support emerging commerce use cases and partner requirements. Responsibilities Strategic Partnerships & Solution Development • Develop and manage strategic relationships with technology companies, merchants, payment platforms, OEMs, EV manufacturers, charging point operators, and other ecosystem partners. • Partner directly with organizations such as Amazon, PayPal, Microsoft, and emerging commerce providers to identify opportunities to embed Mastercard capabilities within partner platforms, devices, and customer experiences. • Support Mastercard's biometric checkout initiatives by designing and scaling innovative authentication and payment experiences in collaboration with external partners. • Translate partner needs, customer feedback, and market tr