About the Role
Mastercard's Agentic & Digital Growth Products team seeks a Vice President, Product Management, Agentic Commerce to lead the product strategy, business strategy, and decision-making for Mastercard Agent Pay for Machines. This role is crucial for enabling AI agents and autonomous systems to transact securely at high velocity and scale, driving commerce across devices, contexts, and geographies.
Responsibilities
- Own the end-to-end vision, strategy, roadmap, and commercialization of Mastercard's Agent Pay for Machines product.
- Act as product and business/strategy lead, collaborating with internal and external stakeholders and customers.
- Define and evolve the AP4M ecosystem architecture, including participant roles, trust frameworks, credential models, program rules, and operating standards.
- Direct cross-functional delivery of all AP4M workstreams spanning onboarding, architecture, buyer agent funding mechanisms, developer tooling, specifications and protocols, credential and registry services, settlement systems, dispute processes, production operations, and reporting.
- Build and maintain healthy partnerships across blockchain, engineering, architecture, franchise, legal, treasury, and regional teams.
- Develop and refine product value propositions that resonate with customers and function across target markets.
- Drive primary inputs for the commercial strategy, including pricing, P&L, and long-term revenue projections.
- Serve as the primary internal and external voice representing the product.
- Define the strategy for development, pilot, go-to-market, and scaling of the products.
- Plan & track product performance and develop product enhancements.
- Support adjacent products, and drive connections between products and features.
Requirements
- 10+ year track record of strong product leadership, driving cross-functional teams through successful 0-1 and 1-n product journeys.
- Comfortable acting as a decision maker in high-ambiguity, high-pressure workstreams.
- Demonstrated ability to synthesize disorganized inputs and oppositional stakeholder interests into a cohesive strategic point of view.
- Alliance-builder and alignment-finder even in contentious situations.
- Strong experience and knowledge of the business drivers of B2B and consumer payments, including familiarity across multiple payment rails.
- Keen understanding of the tradeoffs between rails and flows for merchants, PSPs, and SME buyers.
- Awareness and understanding of Mastercard's key customers, partners, and external stakeholders.
- High degree of comfort and firsthand experience using agentic coding tools.
- Ability to distinguish between high-quality and low-quality AI practices and products.
- Fluency in the tech sector, including deep technology foundations and thorough industry awareness.
- Fluency in the business side of the tech industry, including current movers in AI and blockchain.
- Comfortable rapidly absorbing large volumes of complex business and technical knowledge.
- 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.
- Extremely strong presentations, supported by strong written and verbal communication skills.
- Comfortable communicating strategy, competitive insights, and complex ideas to executive leadership.
- Willing to hear new ideas and objectively consider challengers.
- Bachelor's degree required.
Skills
- Product Management
- Product Strategy
- Roadmap Development
- Ecosystem Design
- Commercialization
- Technical Direction
- Delivery Management
- Stakeholder Management
- Cross-functional Collaboration
- Business Strategy
- AI Agents
- Autonomous Systems
- Digital Payments
- B2B Payments
- Consumer Payments
- Payment Rails (Card Networks, Stablecoins/Crypto, ACH, Real-Time Payments)
- Agentic Coding Tools
- AI Practices
- Blockchain
- Financial Services
- Product Value Propositions
- Pricing Strategy
- P&L Management
- Revenue Projections
- Product Performance Tracking
- Product Enhancements
- Market Analysis
- Competitive Analysis
- Executive Communication
- Presentation Skills
- Written Communication
- Verbal Communication
- Analytical Skills
- Strategic Thinking
- Emotional Intelligence
Location
- New York City, New York
- O'Fallon, Missouri
- San Francisco, California
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Vice President
- 10+ years of product leadership
Education Level
- Bachelor's degree
Salary/Compensations
- New York City, New York: $245,000 - $391,000 USD
- O'Fallon, Missouri: $204,000 - $326,000 USD
- San Francisco, California: $245,000 - $391,000 USD
Benefits
- Competitive base salary
- Potential for annual bonus or commissions
- Insurance (medical, prescription drug, dental, vision, disability, life insurance)
- Flexible spending account and 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 company match
- Deferred compensation for eligible roles
- Fitness reimbursement or on-site fitness facilities
- Eligibility for tuition reimbursement
About the Company
- Mastercard powers economies and empowers people in 200+ countries and territories worldwide.
- We are building 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.
Equal Opportunity
- Mastercard is a merit-based, 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.
- We hire the most qualified candidate for the role.
- In the US or Canada, if you require accommodations or assistance to complete the online application process or during the recruitment process, please contact reasonable_accommodation@mastercard.com 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.
