Vice President, Product - AI Center of Excellence

Vice President, Product - AI Center of Excellence

Role Overview
We are seeking a Vice President, AI Product Management to lead product strategy and execution for the company’s enterprise AI platform capabilities, including the Agent Factory control plane, agent development lifecycle, LLM enablement, evaluation frameworks, and governed AI build patterns.
This leader will own the product vision, roadmap, and operating model for enabling internal teams to design, build, evaluate, deploy, monitor, and scale trusted AI agents across the enterprise. The role will manage a small team of Product Managers and Product Managers-Technical responsible for the platform capabilities that make AI agent development safe, reusable, observable, and production-ready.

• Product Strategy & Roadmap

• Agent Factory Control Plane Ownership

• AI Build & Agent Enablement

• Governance, Risk & Compliance

• Customer Adoption & Commercialization

• Experience owning enterprise-scale platforms, internal developer platforms, AI/ML platforms, data platforms, cloud platforms, workflow platforms, or governed technology products.


• Strong understanding of generative AI, LLMs, AI agents, RAG, prompt management, model evaluation, tool use, and enterprise AI risk considerations.


• Experience working in regulated, security-conscious, or highly governed environments such as financial services, payments, banking, insurance, healthcare, or large enterprise technology.


• Ability to translate complex technical capabilities into clear product strategy, roadmaps, executive narratives, and customer-facing value propositions.


• Strong executive communication skills with the ability to influence senior leaders across product, engineering, data, security, risk, compliance, legal, and business functions.


• Experience defining product metrics, OKRs, adoption goals, platform KPIs, and business value measures.


• Strong technical fluency with cloud, APIs, platform architecture, data governance, identity/access management, observability, and CI/CD concepts.

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.

In line with Mastercard’s total compensation philosophy and assuming that the job will be performed in the US, the successful candidate will be offered a competitive base salary and may be eligible for an annual bonus or commissions depending on the role. The base salary offered may vary depending on multiple factors, including but not limited to location, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Mastercard benefits for full time (and certain part time) employees generally include: insurance (including medical, prescription drug, dental, vision, disability, life insurance); flexible spending account and health savings account; paid leaves (including 16 weeks of new parent leave and up to 20 days of bereavement leave); 80 hours of Paid Sick and Safe Time, 25 days of vacation time and 5 personal days, pro-rated based on date of hire; 10 annual paid U.S. observed holidays; 401k with a best-in-class company match; deferred compensation for eligible roles; fitness reimbursement or on-site fitness facilities; eligibility for tuition reimbursement; and many more. Mastercard benefits for interns generally include: 56 hours of Paid Sick and Safe Time; jury duty leave; and on-site fitness facilities in some locations.

New York City, New York: $245,000 - $391,000 USD