Vice President

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, Digital PaymentsOverview

The Digital Payments portfolio consists of Mastercard’s digital products and platforms including tokenization, authentication, checkout services (i.e. Click to Pay), new acceptance capabilities, and buy-now-pay-later. The team is focused on making payments simpler, more efficient, and more secure.

Reporting into the SVP, Core Payments Canada, the VP, Digital Payments will lead the highly collaborative and dynamic team that manages the Digital Payments products and portfolios in Canada.

Role

Lead the Digital Payments portfolio for the Canada market. Key responsibilities include:
- Define product strategy by understanding customer and end user needs, anticipating future market trends, and conducting competitive analysis.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams in Canada, North America, and globally to develop Canada specific go-to-market strategies for multiple initiatives while understanding the local market dynamics including competitive trends, and regulatory and pricing considerations.
- Execute on the defined strategies and deliver best-in-class experience and value for end users by collaborating with and influencing internal and external partners, vendors, and customers .
- Set portfolio objectives, define KPIs, monitor performance, and adjust as necessary to achieve the objectives.
- Provides consultative product leadership acting as the Digital Payments subject matter expert, externally representing the team at customer, partner, workshops, and events.

All About You

- Strong people leadership skills; proven ability to develop and grow a team
- A business-minded senior product leader who excels at developing new products to help accelerate our next stage of growth
- Strong understanding of the payments ecosystem; industry knowledge/experience.
- Strong understanding of competitive offerings and industry trends; international markets knowledge/experience a plus.
- Demonstrated experience leading product and technology projects to deliver new solutions and bring them to market.
- Proven track record of translating digital strategies into execution plans and driving end-to-end execution in a cross-functional environment.
- Analytical capabilities and can apply these in defining and executing product plans.
- Excellent ability to communicate complex ideas and solutions to both business and technical audiences.
- Strong problem-solving skills with an ability to identify key issues, structure analysis, develop solid business cases and provide recommendations effectively.
- Good relationship-building and influencing skills and can communicate persuasively within the organization as well as with customers and partners.
- Excellent project management and presentation skills.
- Ability to drive results and work independently in a self-directed manner while operating in a team environment.Mastercard is an inclusive equal opportunity employer that considers applicants without regard to gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, ethnicity, disabled or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. In the US or Canada, if you require accommodations or assistance to complete the online application process or during the recruitment process, please contact [email protected] and identify the type of accommodation or assistance you are requesting. Do not include any medical or health information in this email. The Reasonable Accommodations team will respond to your email promptly.

Corporate Security Responsibility

All activities involving access to Mastercard assets, information, and networks comes with an inherent risk to the organization and, therefore, it is expected that every person working for, or on behalf of, Mastercard is responsible for information security and must:

• Abide by Mastercard’s security policies and practices;

• Ensure the confidentiality and integrity of the information being accessed;

• Report any suspected information security violation or breach, and

• Complete all periodic mandatory security trainings in accordance with Mastercard’s guidelines.