Manager, Industry Standards, Blockchain and Digital Assets

Mastercard Inc.; Lisboa; On-site; EUR 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Mastercard is at the forefront of blockchain and digital asset standards, translating emerging concepts into practical, secure frameworks that enable scalable adoption across ecosystems. The Manager, Industry Standards will drive strategy, engage in global forums, and work with internal teams to align security, product, and regulatory objectives.

You will lead in defining assurance models, certifications, and integration frameworks that support ecosystem trust and commercial scalability, while

Qualifications

• Expertise in cybersecurity, payments, or digital asset ecosystems with strong understanding of blockchain technologies and risk models.
• Ability to translate complex technical standards into practical, business-aligned outcomes.
• Experience operating in emerging domains and shaping strategic direction.

Responsibilities

• Define Mastercard’s approach to blockchain and digital asset standards.
• Represent Mastercard in global industry forums and influence security and interoperability standards.
• Operationalize blockchain security standards into measurable criteria, certifications, and audit frameworks.
• Partner with Security Solutions, Blockchain & Digital Assets, Legal, and Product teams to align standards with business priorities.
• Define approaches for security assurance, independent assessment, conformance validation, and trust signaling for ecosystems.
• Build and maintain relationships with industry peers, regulators, and ecosystem partners to shape standards.

Skills

Cybersecurity expertise

Payments industry knowledge

Blockchain understanding

Standards participation

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 Manager, Industry Standards, Blockchain and Digital Assets Overview

Mastercard is developing the standards that will define trust in the next generation of digital commerce. As blockchain and digital assets evolve, industry-wide standards are critical to ensuring security, interoperability, and scalable adoption across ecosystems. The Industry Standards team is responsible for shaping, driving, and operationalizing global standards that underpin Mastercard’s role in secure digital transactions. This includes active leadership in emerging blockchain and digital asset standards bodies, ensuring Mastercard influences the baseline frameworks that the ecosystem adopts.

We are seeking a Manager, Industry Standards to help drive Mastercard’s strategy and engagement in blockchain, cryptocurrency, and digital asset standards translating emerging standards into practical, adoptable frameworks that support ecosystem trust and commercial scalability.

Role

In this role, you will define and execute Mastercard’s approach to blockchain and digital asset standards. You will represent Mastercard across key industry forums, shape the direction of emerging standards, and ensure alignment with Mastercard’s broader security, product, and regulatory objectives. You will focus on driving real industry impact, translating standards into usable constructs such as assurance models, certifications, and integration frameworks that enable adoption at scale.

Responsibilities

• Support Mastercard’s engagement with global blockchain and digital asset standards bodies (e.g., BSSC, ISO, ANSI), influencing the development of security and operational standards
• Define Mastercard positions on emerging topics such as blockchain security, digital asset controls, and interoperability frameworks
• Help lead the operationalization of blockchain security standards into measurable controls, conformance criteria, assessment methodologies, certification programs, and audit frameworks that support ecosystem-wide adoption.
• Partner across internal teams (Security Solutions, Blockchain & Digital Assets, Legal, Product) to align standards strategy to business priorities
• Help define approaches for security assurance, independent assessment, conformance validation, and trust signaling for blockchain ecosystems
• Build and maintain relationships with industry peers, regulators, and ecosystem partners shaping blockchain standards
• Support thought leadership and market engagement to drive awareness and adoption of standards (e.g., industry forums, publications, webinars)

Experiences

• Expertise in cybersecurity, payments, or digital asset ecosystems, with strong understanding of blockchain technologies and risk models
• Ability to translate complex technical standards into practical, business-aligned outcomes
• Demonstrated ability to operate in emerging, ambiguous domains and shape strategic direction
• Comfortable navigating both technical and policy discussions across global forums
• Familiarity with blockchain security disciplines such as key management, smart contract security, node operations, custody, digital asset infrastructure, or related domains.
• Experience participating in standards development organizations, industry consortia, regulatory initiatives, or technical working groups.
• Working knowledge of security and control frameworks such as NIST, ISO 27001, SOC 2, PCI, cryptographic assurance programs, or equivalent.

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.

Everyone wants easier ways to pay; we invent them. Checkout lines are slow; we speed them along. Merchants want more sales; we give them data and insights. People need financial access; we connect them. Corporate purchasing is complicated; we make it simple. Commuters are busy; we speed them on their way. Governments need greater efficiencies; we help create them. Small businesses are virtual; we give them access to a world of buyers. Retailers want to fight fraud; we provide the tools.