About the Role
Mastercard's Services division focuses on customer acquisition, engagement, and retention through fraud and risk management, cybersecurity enhancement, and digital payment experience improvement. We offer value-added services, leveraging expertise, data-driven insights, and execution to help clients address their most challenging strategic questions, with a focus on technology and data across various industries.
Responsibilities
- Collaborate within small teams to answer and implement solutions for clients' strategic questions.
- Take ownership of deliverables and build external relationships with clients.
- Gain exposure to a range of industries, including financial services, retail, restaurants, and hospitality.
- Participate in volunteer and team building experiences.
- Gain exposure to leadership through networking sessions and speaker series.
- Build relationships with clients to understand business needs, seek strategic solutions, and guide impactful decisions.
- Receive hands-on mentorship from an experienced management team.
- Make meaningful contributions.
- Collaborate with colleagues across different areas of the organization.
- Gain exposure to business development, account management, and product management.
- Leverage Mastercard's predictive analytics platform, Test & Learn®, and SQL to run data-backed business experiments for clients (Business Experimentation track).
- Provide data science-based insights on product launches, marketing campaigns, customer loyalty, and pricing (Business Experimentation track).
- Partner directly with clients to share findings and help determine effective implementation strategies (Business Experimentation track).
- Support 2 to 4 clients concurrently, developing a deep understanding of client business challenges through longer-term engagements (typically 1 to 2 years) (Business Experimentation track).
- Guide clients through strategic, tactical, operational, and transformational challenges to enhance performance and operations (Strategy & Transformation track).
- Engage in diverse areas including product development, marketing, customer loyalty, and innovation (Strategy & Transformation track).
- Interface with numerous Fortune 500 companies on engagements (Strategy & Transformation track).
- Support 1 to 3 projects concurrently, with each project lasting approximately 8 to 16 weeks (Strategy & Transformation track).
- Abide by Mastercard’s security policies and practices.
- Ensure the confidentiality and integrity of information being accessed.
- Report any suspected information security violation or breach.
- Complete all periodic mandatory security trainings.
Requirements
- Bachelors or Masters students enrolled in a full-time degree program.
- Expected graduation between Nov 2027 and June 2028.
- Outstanding record of academic achievement.
- Proven record of leadership in a work setting and/or through extracurricular activities.
- Exceptional analytical and quantitative problem-solving skills.
- Proficiency in English language.
- Proficiency in local office language (Japanese language).
- Do not require work visa sponsorship to work in Japan now nor any time in the future.
- Indicate first track preference in cover letter.
- Submit an updated resume in English language.
- Applications will be reviewed on a first come first served basis.
Skills
- Data analysis
- Querying tools (e.g., SQL, SAS, Excel or Tableau)
- Structured problem solving
- Analytical skills
- Quantitative skills
- Business intuition
- Teamwork
- Communication skills (written and verbal)
- Ability to communicate complex ideas effectively
Location
- Japan
Work Type
- Internship
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Intern
Education Level
- Bachelors or Masters degree program
Benefits
- Networking sessions
- Speaker series
- Hands-on mentorship
About the Company
- Mastercard powers economies and empowers people in 200+ countries and territories worldwide.
- We are 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.
- We help people, businesses and governments realize their greatest potential.
- Everyone wants easier ways to pay; we invent them.
- Checkout lines are slow; we speed them along.
- Merchants want more sales; we give them data and insights.
- People need financial access; we connect them.
- Corporate purchasing is complicated; we make it simple.
- Commuters are busy; we speed them on their way.
- Governments need greater efficiencies; we help create them.
- Small businesses are virtual; we give them access to a world of buyers.
- Retailers want to fight fraud; we provide the tools.
