Vice President, Token Authentication Solutions

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, Token Authentication Solutions Overview Mastercard Checkout Services team is building the future of digital commerce by making online payments more secure, seamless, and trusted. Tokenization and authentication are strategic pillars of that vision across all digital payment use cases, such as card on file checkout, guest checkout, and Agentic commerce. We are looking for a visionary and execution-focused Vice President, Token Authentication Solutions to lead the development and deployment of Mastercard's suite of authentication methods enabled on tokenized transactions, such as payment passkeys and enhanced data sharing. This leader will be responsible for managing the token authentication framework and enhancing the token authentication service that allows merchants to access secure and seamless token authentication solutions. The successful candidate will operate at the intersection of product strategy, product development, issuer and merchant partnerships, standardization and integration of emerging authentication technologies such as Digital Payment Credentials. This leadership role requires strong business acumen, product leadership, ecosystem influence, and the ability to develop and deploy innovative products. Role • Lead Mastercard’s Token Authentication Solutions domain within Checkout Services, shaping the vision, strategy, and execution roadmap for authentication capabilities on tokenized transactions. • Own the evolution of the token authentication framework and related services that enable merchants, issuers, and ecosystem partners to deliver secure, seamless, and trusted digital payment experiences. • Drive product development and deployment of authentication methods such as payment passkeys, enhanced data sharing, and emerging capabilities aligned to Digital Payment Credentials. • Partner across Mastercard and the broader payments ecosystem to influence issuers, merchants, processors, technology partners, wallet providers, and standards bodies. • Balance long-term innovation with near-term business impact, scaling the deployment of authentication solutions while ensuring Mastercard continues to lead the payment industry. Key Responsibilities • Lead the definition and execution of token authentication solutions, including business cases, investment priorities, product roadmap, and executive stakeholder alignment. • Prioritize and scale authentication solutions such as payment passkeys, enhanced data sharing, Digital Payment Credentials, and emerging authentication methods across tokenized transactions, including card-on-file, guest checkout, and agentic commerce. • Lead the evolution of the token authentication framework, B2B services for acceptance partners and issuers to enable the token authentication solutions, and B2C passkey service. • Partner across product, engineering, regional, commercial, legal, and operations teams to translate strategy into requirements, analyze new use cases, develop scalable solutions, enable market adoption, and support global acceptance partners and issuers implementing our products. • Represent Mastercard externally with customers, partners, industry bodies, and standards organizations such as FIDO and W3C. • Build, lead, and develop a high-perfor