About the Role
The Global Partnerships team cultivates and manages strategic partnerships across the payments ecosystem, working with global players in tech, e-commerce, and financial services to create innovative solutions. The Global Fintech team specifically manages relationships with partners across the global fintech ecosystem, leveraging Mastercard's capabilities to solve real-world problems, create new product propositions, and ensure seamless, secure, and inclusive payments. This high-profile, customer-facing role involves owning global relationships with key Fintech partners, developing and executing mutually aligned strategies, driving Mastercard's go-to-market strategy, co-innovating new product propositions, driving revenue growth, developing business cases, leading RFP responses, and negotiating terms and contracts.
Responsibilities
- Own global relationships with Fintech partners in strategic focus areas for Mastercard
- Manage customers such as Airwallex, Brex, Rho across various verticals including acquiring, issuing, and multi-rail/infrastructure providers
- Build mutually aligned strategies and plans with partners
- Execute strategies and plans by effectively leveraging the Mastercard organization
- Execute Mastercard’s go-to-market strategy across a holistic suite of products and services
- Co-innovate with partners to build new product propositions through close collaboration with Mastercard product development and innovation teams
- Drive Mastercard revenue growth
- Develop business cases including ROI analyses
- Lead responses to RFPs
- Lead negotiations with partners and internal stakeholders
- Develop term sheets and contracts
Requirements
- Self-starter/self-motivated
- Prior experience in Account Management or Sales roles
- Strong commercial acumen
- Ability to close deals
- Ability to navigate through large organizations and influence without direct authority
- Ability to communicate complex technical requirements to Product and Engineering teams
- Possess a blend of analytical capability, strategic thinking, and emotional intelligence
- Able to dive deep on all areas of the business to deliver creative solutions to unstructured problems
- Comfortable aptitude for onboarding complex business and technical knowledge to a level sufficient to engage in meaningful partner discussions and identify and drive solutions
- Good communicator and influencer with strong negotiation skills
- Excellent presentation skills, both drafting and presenting
- Comfortable in a multi-tasking environment
- Ability to build and maintain relationships with key internal and external stakeholders to support the business's strategic direction across regions
- Travel required
Skills
- Account Management
- Sales
- Commercial acumen
- Deal closing
- Organizational navigation
- Influence
- Technical communication
- Analytical capability
- Strategic thinking
- Emotional intelligence
- Problem-solving
- Business knowledge onboarding
- Technical knowledge onboarding
- Communication
- Negotiation
- Presentation
- Multi-tasking
- Relationship building
- Business case development
- ROI analysis
- RFP response leadership
- Contract development
Location
- New York City, New York
- San Francisco, California
Salary/Compensations
- $190,000 - $304,000 USD (New York City, New York)
- $190,000 - $304,000 USD (San Francisco, California)
Benefits
- Insurance (medical, prescription drug, dental, vision, disability, life insurance)
- Flexible spending account
- Health savings account
- Paid leaves (16 weeks of new parent leave, up to 20 days of bereavement leave)
- 80 hours of Paid Sick and Safe Time
- 25 days of vacation time
- 5 personal days
- 10 annual paid U.S. observed holidays
- 401k with a best-in-class company match
- Deferred compensation (for eligible roles)
- Fitness reimbursement or on-site fitness facilities
- Eligibility for tuition reimbursement
About the Company
- Powers economies and empowers people in 200+ countries and territories worldwide
- Helps build a sustainable economy where everyone can prosper
- Supports a wide range of digital payments choices, making transactions secure, simple, smart and accessible
- Leverages technology, innovation, partnerships and networks to deliver products and services
- Helps people, businesses and governments realize their greatest potential
- Invents easier ways to pay
- Speeds along checkout lines
- Gives merchants data and insights for more sales
- Connects people to financial access
- Makes corporate purchasing simple
- Speeds commuters on their way
- Helps governments create greater efficiencies
- Gives virtual small businesses access to a world of buyers
- Provides tools for retailers to fight fraud
Equal Opportunity
- Mastercard is a merit-based, inclusive, equal opportunity employer
- Considers applicants without regard to gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, ethnicity, disabled or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law
- Hires the most qualified candidate for the role
- Provides accommodations or assistance to complete the online application process or during the recruitment process in the US or Canada
