Vice President, Product Management, Agentic Commerce

Our Purpose

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.

Title and Summary

Vice President, Product Management, Agentic Commerce

Mastercard is a global technology company in the payments industry. Our mission is to connect and power an inclusive, digital economy that benefits everyone, everywhere by making transactions safe, simple, smart, and accessible. Using secure data and networks, partnerships and passion, our innovations and solutions help individuals, financial institutions, governments, and businesses realize their greatest potential.

Our decency quotient, or DQ, drives our culture and everything we do inside and outside of our company. With connections across more than 210 countries and territories, we are building a sustainable world that unlocks priceless possibilities for all.

Overview

Mastercard's Agentic & Digital Growth Products team is looking for a Vice President, Product Management, Agentic Commerce to serve as a global product leader, business strategy owner, and key decisionmaker for Mastercard's flagship agentic commerce products, 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, e-commerce and financial services to leverage Mastercard's technological capabilities to solve partner business problems, create new propositions, and ensure seamless, secure and inclusive payments.

Role

The Vice President, Product Management, Agentic Commerce will be focused on defining key elements of Mastercard's strategy to enable access to digital credentials wherever AI agents are enabled to initiate or facilitate payments.

They will act as a close partner and counterpart to the leaders driving the development and implementation of Agent Pay and Agent Pay for Machines globally, providing direct leadership to ensure these products and associated value-added services quickly scale in market.

This individual will act as the primary orchestrator across product, franchise, legal, treasury, and regional teams. They will also act as a leader in representing our vision for agentic commerce to external ecosystem partners, building trust and credibility together with partnerships and account teams.

Success in this endeavor will mean delivering a robust commercial strategy for the products in focus, a cutting-edge customer and developer experience, and rapid validation and iteration of these products with customers - driving towards measurable results for Mastercard and ecosystem partners. This individual will assemble and lead a team that draws on the full breadth of Mastercard's technology stack to develop and commercialize the product, driving adoption of secure digital payments to new contexts, interfaces, and market segments.

• Act as product and business/strategy lead. Collaborate and interface daily with internal and external stakeholders and customers, including frontier AI labs, agentic commerce providers, large issuers, digital wallets, merchants, acquirers, and payment service providers, to ensure the strategic (competitive, commercial) landscape is thoroughly understood, documented, and incorporated into the product roadmap. Regularly present these findings to executive leadership.
• Build and maintain healthy partnerships across franchise, legal, treasury, digital assets, partnerships, and regional teams to accelerate delivery of the product vision.
• Help to develop and refine product value propositions that resonate with customers, balance contrasting interests among customer sets, and function across target markets and regions with different consumer-level considerations.
• Drive primary inputs for the commercial strategy for the products, including pricing at the global and regional level, ongoing P&L management, and long-term revenue projections.
• Serve as the primary internal and external voice representing the product strategy in customer and partner engagements.
• Help to define the strategy for development, pilot, go-to-market, and scaling of the products, continual assessment of product/market fit, and direction on product pivots.
• Plan and track product performance and develop product enhancements to address emerging customer requirements or scale customer adoption.
• Support adjacent products, and drive connections between products and features.

All About You

• You possess a blend of analytical capability, strategic thinking, and emotional intelligence, and are able to dive deeply into all areas of the business to deliver creative solutions to unstructured problems.
• You have more than 10 years of demonstrated product leadership, having driven cross-functional teams through successful zero-to-one and one-to-many 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 knowledge of the business drivers of consumer and B2B payments, with experience across multiple payment rails, including card networks, crypto/stablecoin, and more. Possess a kee