VP Technical Program Management

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
VP Technical Program Management
Overview-
Mastercard is a global technology company in the payments industry, connecting billions of consumers, financial institutions, merchants, governments, and businesses worldwide. We are driving the future of commerce by enabling secure, simple, and smart transactions. Artificial Intelligence is at the core of our strategy to make Mastercard stronger and commerce safer, smarter and more personal.
The Role:
At Mastercard, we're building next-generation modernized platforms to drive innovation and impact. As a Vice President, Technology Program Manager, you will lead a high-performing team driving key program initiatives across the Platform Services program. This role partners closely with executive leadership, product, engineering and legal teams, to deliver key objectives.
Key Responsibilities:• Drives large, enterprise-wide efforts that solve complex or prevalent Mastercard problems (i.e. the multi-year roadmap for an executive vice president's book of business or the delivery of an organizational goal) in areas where product and technical strategies have not yet been defined. • Lead team of deeply technical TPMs to support initiatives in getting requirements, architecture defined and then alignment of cross-functional dependencies • Own RAID management across the products• Influences organizational priorities. Drives delivery within an area of broad cross organizational, architectural, or global complexity. Aligns teams and organizations to simple, coherent approaches. • Trusted to frame, construct, and manage written/verbal communications up to executive and CTO level. • Business, program, technical strategy not defined. May not even know what problem is. Defines outcomes and benefits, blazes new trails. Brings clarity to ambiguity and complexity and demonstrating ways to simplify and accelerate progress. Works with complete independence and autonomy.• Deep end-to-end understanding of Mastercard platforms, technologies, and domains. Recognized expert. Applies knowledge to invent, evolve, simplify, and deliver.• Removes institutionalized waste. Seeks out and solves for endemic problems in the organization. Optimizes architectural and/or organizational structures to enable/persist efficiencies. Shares knowledge on behalf of Mastercard participating in conferences and community events. • Lead by example by being hands-on and close to the details of technical program execution and using data to make decisions • Delivery (what and how) as well as associated artifacts set the company standard for engineering excellence, Mastercard Way culture, and technical program delivery• Provide technical and program delivery thought leadership/mentorship for the organization ultimately scaling the skills of technical staff and continuously raising the bar on performance, technical depth and program management results • Look forward 1-3 years to drive architecture
Key experience/skills required:
• Experience leading complex, cross-domain technology efforts• Proven success as a leader through influence vs just reporting line• Strong communications skills, demonstrated success in delivering senior leadership communications• Deep understanding of technology execution process to validate program-level planning.• Market delivery experience is a plus• Technology depth, past engineering experience is a plus• Financial reporting and budget management experience a plus
Mastercard is a merit-based, inclusive, equal opportunity employer that considers applicants without regard to gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, ethnicity, disabled or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. We hire the most qualified candidate for the role. In the US or Canada, if you require accommodations or assistance to complete the online application process or during the recruitment process, please contact [email protected] and identify the type of accommodation or assistance you are requesting. Do not include any medical or health information in this email. The Reasonable Accommodations team will respond to your email promptly.
Corporate Security Responsibility
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.
Pay Ranges
O'Fallon, Missouri: $200,000 - $330,000 USD