Vice President, Product Management, Agentic Commerce

Vice President, Product Management, Agentic Commerce

Mastercard's Agentic & Digital Growth Products team is looking for a Vice President, Product Management, Agentic Commerce to serve as the product leader, business strategy owner, and key decision-maker for Mastercard Agent Pay for Machines - Mastercard's flagship machine commerce product – with a mission to enable AI agents and autonomous systems to transact securely at high velocity and massive scale. The ideal candidate will be highly motivated, intellectually curious, analytical, and excited by the challenge of balancing the needs of many diverse stakeholders.

Our team leads Mastercard's efforts to build and scale digital payment products that enable commerce across devices, contexts, and geographies. We work with the biggest names in tech, ecommerce and financial services to leverage Mastercard's technological capabilities to solve partner business problems, create new propositions, and ensure seamless, secure and inclusive payments.

The Vice President, Product Management, Agentic Commerce will be focused on defining key strategic and commercial elements of Mastercard's strategy to enable access to digital credentials wherever AI agents are being enabled for payment.

This individual will lead Agent Pay for Machines end-to-end — owning product strategy, roadmap, ecosystem design, commercialization, technical direction, and delivery across all workstreams required to bring the platform to market. They will act as the primary orchestrator across product, engineering, architecture, franchise, legal, treasury, settlement operations, regional teams, and external ecosystem partners.

Success in this endeavor will mean delivering a robust commercial strategy for the products in focus, a cutting-edge customer and developer experience, and rapidly validating and iterating products with customers. This individual will build and lead a team to develop and commercialize the product by building on the full breadth of Mastercard's technology stack, driving adoption of secure digital payments to new contexts, interfaces, and market segments.

All About You

You have a 10+ year track record of strong product leadership, having driven cross-functional teams through successful 0-1 and 1-n product journeys.

Comfortable acting as a decision maker in high-ambiguity, high-pressure workstreams. You have a demonstrated ability to synthesize disorganized inputs and oppositional stakeholder interests into a cohesive strategic point of view. You are an 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, including card networks, stablecoins / crypto rails, ACH, and real-time payments. Possess a 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 in these areas, including Issuers, Payment Service Providers, Acquirers, Digital Wallet Operators, and Merchants.

High degree of comfort and firsthand experience using agentic coding tools – you'd be excited to showcase a few personal or professional projects, and you can 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. You seek out daunting intellectual challenges as a pastime.

Possess a blend of analytical capability, strategic thinking, and emotional intelligence and 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 in the interest of achieving the best possible customer outcomes.

Bachelor's degree required.