Vice President of Product Management (Agentic Commerce)

Join Mastercard's Agentic & Digital Growth Products team as the Vice President of Product Management, Agentic Commerce. In this role, you will lead the product strategy and commercialization of Mastercard's flagship machine commerce product, Agent Pay for Machines. You will collaborate with various internal and external stakeholders, define the ecosystem architecture, and drive the product's success in the market. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in product leadership, a deep understanding of the tech industry, and a passion for driving innovation in digital payments.

• Define and evolve the ecosystem architecture for Agent Pay for Machines, including participant roles, trust frameworks, credential models, program rules, and operating standards.
• Lead the end-to-end product strategy, roadmap, ecosystem design, commercialization, technical direction, and delivery across all workstreams required to bring the platform to market.
• Build and lead a team to develop and commercialize the product by leveraging Mastercard’s technology stack, driving adoption of secure digital payments to new contexts, interfaces, and market segments.
• Extremely strong presentations, supported by strong written and verbal communication skills
• Comfortable communicating strategy, competitive insights, and complex ideas to executive leadership
• Bachelor's degree required
• Comfortable rapidly absorbing large volumes of complex business and technical knowledge. You seek out daunting intellectual challenges as a pastime
• Fluency in the business side of the tech industry, including current movers in AI and blockchain
• 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
• Willing to hear new ideas and objectively consider challengers in the interest of achieving the best possible customer outcomes
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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