Agentic Commerce & Services Program, Mastercard Start Path

Agentic Commerce & Services Program, Mastercard Start Path

Overview

• Deliver the vision, mission, and execution of Start Path Agentic Commerce & Services Program, including:


• Sourcing high-potential and strategic startups,


• Driving partnerships and engagements with selected startups for commercial and strategic outcomes


• Collaborating closely with product teams on developing partnership strategy.


• Track and analyze fast-emerging market trends in the agentic start-up space, doing market landscaping, startup due diligence and bringing back key strategic insights.


• Drive innovative commercial engagements with agentic startups across multiple use cases and parts of the agentic stack.


• Advocate and evangelize the agentic commerce & services strategy with internal and external stakeholders, including senior leadership at Mastercard, startups, venture capital firms, industry organizations and more.


• Liaise with Product teams across Mastercard on their product roadmaps and strategies to find opportunity for startup partnership


• Anticipate significant domestic and regional fintech trends while developing and modifying strategies to manage these trends.

• Proven track-record working with startups - well-versed in the AI, startup engagement and venture capital ecosystem


• Strong experience in cross-functional collaboration – driving alignment across product and commercial teams to drive outcomes


• Strong strategic prowess enabling swift distillation of fast-developing trends & analysis of the competitive landscape


• Strong project management experience - highly organized, meticulous attention to detail & experience executing multiple projects concurrently


• Comfortable in a fast-paced team environment


• MBA preferred; candidates may also qualify through an equivalent combination of education and experience.

All activities involving access to Mastercard assets, information, and networks comes with an inherent risk to the organization and, therefore, it is expected that every person working for, or on behalf of, Mastercard is responsible for information security and must:

• 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, and


• Complete all periodic mandatory security trainings in accordance with Mastercard’s guidelines.