About the Role
The Strategic Accounts Lead, Global Enterprise Unit, is responsible for end-to-end solutions for a diverse global customer base, focusing on data-driven technologies and innovation. This role supports consulting, loyalty and marketing programs, business experimentation, and data-driven information and risk management services. The Global Enterprise Unit leads complex, custom, and strategic customer engagements with Tier 1 global retailers, financial institutions, and QSR networks. This is the first hire into a newly formed global pod, reporting to the VP, Global Enterprise Unit, and will work closely with the VP on flagship global engagements, progressively expanding into independent ownership.
Responsibilities
- Partner directly with the VP, Global Enterprise Unit, across discovery, solutioning, POC design, commercial structuring, negotiation, and close.
- Act as a force multiplier on live pursuits by preparing executive materials, shaping POCs, coordinating cross-functional teams, and maintaining momentum between VP touchpoints.
- Gradually take on responsibility for specific workstreams and sub-accounts, progressing toward independent accountability.
- Proactively identify and originate new opportunities within target global accounts, contributing to incremental pipeline growth and expanding the unit’s portfolio.
- Collaborate closely with Mastercard regional teams and in-market resources while retaining primary accountability within the global unit.
- Translate long-horizon personalization and agentic decisioning strategies into phased, executable commercial programs.
- Partner with regional teams post-sale to ensure delivery quality, manage escalations, and drive strong customer outcomes.
- Maintain accurate forecasts, account plans, and structured pursuit documentation.
- Represent the Global Enterprise Unit in executive briefings, customer advisory sessions, and internal forums.
Requirements
- Experience in enterprise SaaS sales, pre-sales, or strategic consulting, ideally within MarTech, CDP, personalization, decisioning, or applied AI platforms.
- Proven track record of owning complex enterprise deals end-to-end and independently building pipeline within target accounts.
- Exposure to multi-stakeholder, high-value enterprise engagements, often spanning global organizations.
- Strong initiative with the ability to anticipate needs, create structure, and consistently close loops.
- Consultative, outcome-oriented approach to sales; familiarity with MEDDPICC, Command of the Message, or Gap Selling is an advantage.
- Comfortable operating in ambiguity and contributing to the development of processes within a new and evolving unit.
- Demonstrated commitment to sustaining customer relationships beyond the point of sale.
- Fluency in agentic AI and generative UI concepts, particularly their application within personalization.
- Experience in regulated industries, global retail, or QSR environments is a plus.
- Willingness to travel and work across multiple markets.
- 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.
- Complete all periodic mandatory security trainings in accordance with Mastercard’s guidelines.
Skills
- MarTech
- CDP
- personalization
- decisioning
- applied AI platforms
- MEDDPICC
- Command of the Message
- Gap Selling
- agentic AI
- generative UI
Location
- global
Work Type
- travel
Experience Level
- strategic
- enterprise
About the Company
- 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.
- Mastercard is building the next generation of customer relevance.
- As foundation models, agentic systems, and generative interfaces reshape how enterprises engage their customers, technologies such as Dynamic Yield and others within our CA&E portfolio act as the decisioning and composition layer—turning raw AI capability into relevant, governed, and measurable experiences across every channel: app, web, branch, kiosk, contact center, and messaging.
- 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.
