Director, Customer Performance

Mastercard; St Leonards; On-site; AUD 180,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

Mastercard seeks a Director, Customer Performance to support the AP Region's Customer Care Performance Team within Technology. The role focuses on incident coordination, product health monitoring, and strategic engagement with senior customer stakeholders to position Mastercard as a trusted technology partner.

You will lead cross-functional efforts spanning engineering and customer-facing teams, driving improvements in technical resilience, security, and operational excellence for customers

Qualifications

• Experience in technology operations and service reliability.
• Experience collaborating across engineering and customer teams to translate issues into business impact.
• Hands-on familiarity with observability/monitoring tools such as Splunk or Grafana.
• Strong strategic thinking and ability to operate in a fast-paced environment.
• Demonstrated leadership and influencing skills across teams and stakeholders.
• Ability to use data to identify trends and drive decisions for customers.

Responsibilities

• Facilitate timely and accurate flow of information during incidents.
• Monitor product health and performance trends across regions and customers.
• Build strong relationships across GCDC and Global Technology to drive outcomes.
• Use data and insights to identify resilience trends and opportunities for improvement.
• Lead technology-to-technology engagements with senior customer stakeholders.
• Lead stakeholder engagement during major incidents to minimise customer impact.
• Shape and execute strategic tech initiatives aligned with global priorities.

Skills

Technology operations

Incident management

Cross-functional collaboration

Observability tools

Strategic thinking

Leadership

Data-driven decisions

Customer orientation

Tools

Splunk

Grafana

Job description

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

Director, Customer Performance

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

Director, Customer Performance

The Director, Customer Performance role will support the newly formed Customer Care Performance Team (CCPT) within Technology and the AP Region. As a key member of the CCPT AP team, this role will support the region in positioning Mastercard as a preferred technology partner, bringing Mastercard’s vision for technology innovation, security and operational excellence to customers.

Role

• Facilitate the timely and accurate flow of information between product and customer-facing teams during incidents.
• Monitor product health and performance trends across regions, divisions and customers, collaborating with stakeholders to address gaps or issues that could impact customer satisfaction.
• Build strong, strategic relationships across GCDC and Global Technology to drive positive outcomes for the region, address escalations and bridge gaps impacting customers.
• Use data and strategic insights to understand customer resilience across the full lifecycle, identifying trends and opportunities for improvement.
• Lead technology-to-technology engagements with senior customer stakeholders, building trust through transparency, openness and accountability while positioning Mastercard as a key partner for innovation, security and transformation.
• Lead stakeholder engagement during major incidents or crises, ensuring effective communication and timely resolution to minimise customer impact.
• Shape and execute strategic technology initiatives that strengthen Mastercard’s position in the region while ensuring alignment with broader global priorities.

About You

• Strong experience in technology operations / service reliability, including managing major incidents, service restoration, root cause analysis and complex technical escalations.
• Experience working across engineering/technical and customer-facing teams, translating technical issues into clear business/customer impact and driving resolution across teams without direct authority.
• Hands-on familiarity with observability and monitoring tools such as Splunk, Grafana or similar platforms.
• Strong strategic thinking and ability to operate effectively in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.
• Demonstrated ability to lead change and transformation, with a continuous improvement mindset and willingness to challenge the status quo.
• Strong leadership and influencing skills, with the ability to build trusted relationships and collaborate effectively across teams and senior stakeholder groups.
• Ability to use data and insights to identify trends, inform decisions and develop scalable solutions.
• Strong customer orientation, with the ability to balance customer needs, technology considerations and broader business priorities.
• Curious and innovative mindset, with a focus on improving processes, outcomes and customer experience.

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.