Vice President- AI, Center of Excellence

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- AI, Center of ExcellenceVice President, AI Engineering - AI CoE

Mastercard | AI Center of Excellence

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. 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.

Overview:

The AI Center of Excellence is seeking a Vice President, AI Engineering - AI CoE to lead the delivery and scale of enterprise AI products, agentic AI solutions, and new and evolving AI capabilities across Mastercard.

This is a people manager role leading a global AI Engineering organization responsible for moving AI from experimentation to production-grade, reusable products and capabilities. The Vice President will focus on AI engineering delivery and execution, translating business priorities into AI solutions, shared capabilities, and measurable outcomes while ensuring security, reliability, governance, and operational excellence.

About the Role:

• Lead end-to-end AI engineering delivery from solution design through development, production deployment, adoption, and value realization.
• Build and scale reusable AI assets, agent patterns, multi-agent orchestration, workflow automation, shared components, and new and evolving AI capabilities that accelerate delivery and reduce duplication.
• Drive execution against prioritized business needs, ensuring AI initiatives deliver measurable business value.
• Partner across AI Platform Engineering, Infrastructure, Data, Security, Architecture, Risk, Product, and business teams to deliver secure, scalable enterprise AI solutions.
• Own production readiness, including reliability, resiliency, observability, scalability, lifecycle management, and operational performance.
• Embed Responsible AI, security, privacy, governance, compliance, and auditability throughout the AI engineering lifecycle.
• Drive adoption and measure product performance, customer impact, productivity, risk reduction, and business outcomes.
• Lead and develop a global organization of AI engineering leaders, architects, and AI engineers, building talent, accountability, and engineering excellence.

All About You:

• Years of leadership experience in AI engineering, software or product engineering, or enterprise technology delivery.
• Proven success delivering and scaling enterprise AI products, agentic AI applications, intelligent automation, or mission-critical digital platforms.
• Strong technical understanding of agentic AI, generative AI, large language models (LLMs), multi-agent orchestration, workflow automation, and new and evolving AI capabilities.
• Experience with hybrid cloud and cloud-native architectures, distributed systems, APIs, enterprise integration, and modern AI engineering.
• Experience leading production technology in highly regulated environments with accountability for security, resiliency, governance, compliance, and risk.
• Demonstrated ability to drive complex, cross-functional engineering delivery and execution at enterprise scale.
• Proven people leadership experience, including leading leaders, building high-performing global engineering organizations, coaching and developing talent, and driving accountability.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Data Science, Information Systems, or a related field required; master’s degree preferred.

#AI1Mastercard 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 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.THIS POSTING IS NOT FOR A CURRENT VACANCY, BUT MASTERCARD IS SEEKING RESUMES TO REVIEW IN THE FUTURE WHEN JOBS BECOME AVAILABLE. Pay Ranges

San Francisco, California: $254,000 - $407,000 USDAtlanta, Georgia: $212,000 - $339,000 USDBoston, Massachusetts: $244,000 - $390,000 USDMiami, Florida: $212,000 - $339,000 USDNew York City, New York: $254,000 - $407,000 USDO'Fallon, Missouri: $212,000 - $339,000 USDPurchase, New York: $244,000 - $390,000 USDRemote - New York: $212,000 - $339,000 USDSeattle, Washington: $244,000 - $390,000 USD Job Posting Window

Posting windows may change based on the volume of applications received and business necessity. Candidates are encouraged to apply expeditiously. Originally posted on Himalayas