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VP, Publisher Experience and Platform, Commerce Media
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 “Director, Product Experience Design” (Industrial Engineers) in NY: $170k–$170k, median $170k. 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 VP, Publisher Experience and Platform, Commerce Media Role Overview We are seeking a VP of Publisher Experience and Platform Mastercard Commerce Media, a newly established digital media network, where advertisers can reach consumers with highly personalized, targeted ads and offers on premium publishing channels. This leader will be responsible for the new platform for publishers, inclusive of front end, back end, decision engine, reporting, onboarding, and overall publisher experience to display ads and offers. Key Responsibilities Key Responsibilities Product Strategy & Vision • Own the end to end platform vision and multi year roadmap for the Commerce Media platform. • Set strategy for publisher experience to include platform front end, back end, adapters (Pre-Bid, SDK, JS, VAST), core decisioning, monetization, reporting and billing, and streamlined onboarding. • Make tradeoffs balancing customer value, revenue growth, platform scalability, and operational reliability. Product Execution & Delivery • Translate publisher needs and current processes into clear product priorities and outcomes to deliver scaled platform by Q3 2026. • Drive an API first product approach that enables extensibility, partner integrations, and internal reuse. • Partner closely with Engineering to ensure product requirements align with architectural and operational constraints. • Work closely with cross functional partners on data strategy, privacy to integrate identify graph into platform. • Champion responsible, AI first product strategies to improve decision quality, automation, and speed to market. • Identify and prioritize AI driven opportunities across product experiences, experimentation, and analytics. • Establish product level guardrails for AI use in performance and correctness critical environments. • Act as a senior partner to Engineering, Data Science, Sales, Marketing, Legal, and Operations. • Communicate complex product strategies and tradeoffs clearly to executives, customers and non technical stakeholders. • Represent the product portfolio in executive discussions, customer engagements, and strategic partnerships. • Build, lead, and mentor a high performing team of senior product leaders and managers. • Foster a culture of ownership, clarity, and customer centric decision making. • Lead distributed teams across time zones with alignment and accountability. Qualifications • Solid Ad Tech platform experience • Background in commerce media, marketplaces, or real time platforms • Platform owner of a commerce media business, have either built from the ground up or intimately familiar with existing platforms • Proven experience leading platform or infrastructure adjacent solutions at enterprise scale. • Strong judgment in complex, high throughput, real time or decisioning driven environments. • Demonstrated success partnering deeply with Engineering on technically sophisticated products. • People leader, talent developer • Experience driving AI enabled product strategies with a focus on responsible adoption. • Excellent executive communication and stakeholder influence skills. Mastercard is a merit-based, inclusive, equal opportunity employer that considers applicants without regard to gender, gender identity, sexual ori