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Senior Technical Program Manager (Planning – Payments Domain)
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 roles2 certified filings for “Principal Technical Program Manager” (Computer and Information Systems Managers) in MO: $181k–$181k, median $181k. 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).
- Last confirmed live 2 days agoWhen 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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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 Senior Technical Program Manager (Planning – Payments Domain) Who is Mastercard? 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. Overview The Mastercard Network & Digital Payment Services team is looking for a Senior Technical Program Manager to own planning and delivery execution across our product and platform portfolio. You will run the planning function for the organization — roadmap, forecast, budget, headcount, and delivery commitments — across multiple concurrent programs. As Senior Technical Program Manager, you will work with product managers, tech leads, architects, and operations and engineering leaders to deliver complex programs. You will define roadmap deliverables, build execution plans, align dependencies, track progress, anticipate risks, manage escalations, and balance business needs against delivery constraints. This is a planning and execution role rather than a hands-on engineering one. Success depends on structure, judgment, and problem-solving: bringing clarity to ambiguous work, making the plan and its trade-offs visible, and keeping leadership and delivery teams aligned on the same picture of reality. The ideal candidate brings an entrepreneurial mindset — comfortable operating in ambiguity, willing to build the mechanism that doesn't exist yet, and able to run several unrelated programs at once without dropping any of them. You will spend much of your time with senior leaders and partner teams you do not manage, so the ability to influence without authority and earn trust quickly is essential. Highly motivated, intellectually curious, analytical, detail-oriented, an excellent communicator, and a strong problem-solve Role • Lead Program Delivery: Drive complex technical programs end-to-end, aligning cross-functional teams, removing blockers, and delivering against committed outcomes. • Own Planning & Roadmaps: Translate strategy into prioritized roadmaps, delivery plans, milestones, and forecasts across multiple teams and initiatives. • Manage Budget & Resources: Partner with Finance and Engineering to manage budgets, headcount, capacity, vendor spend, and trade-offs across competing priorities. • Drive Program Health: Establish program metrics, manage risks and dependencies, track delivery performance, and provide clear executive-level reporting and recommendations. • Influence Cross-Functional Teams: Partner with senior leaders across Product, Engineering, Operations, and Finance to drive alignment and accountability without direct authority. • Solve Complex Problems: Bring structure to ambiguity, identify root causes, resolve delivery challenges, and proactively d