Director, Strategic Growth & Special Initiatives

Mastercard; Purchase (NY); On-site; USD 177,000 - 284,000; Full time

Job summary

Mastercard seeks a Director, Integration Initiatives / Special Projects to lead a portfolio of high-priority efforts across Recorded Future integration. You will shape data strategy, commercialization approaches, AI-enabled offerings, and cross-portfolio opportunities, coordinating with Product and Strategy to set the initial roadmap and operating model.

The ideal candidate thrives in ambiguity, influencing senior leaders and driving complex programs from concept to implementation while building

Qualifications

• Be comfortable operating in ambiguity and creating clarity where priorities, ownership, and decision rights are evolving.
• Bring advanced stakeholder management skills to influence across senior leaders and cross-functional teams.
• Demonstrate strong strategic judgment to diagnose issues, frame options, assess tradeoffs, and guide decisions.
• Be highly organized and execution-oriented with a track record of moving enterprise-level work from concept to implementation.
• Communicate complex topics clearly through executive-ready updates, roadmaps, and decision materials.

Responsibilities

• Lead a portfolio of strategic, cross-functional initiatives critical to Mastercard and Recorded Future partnership.
• Drive initiatives from initial assessment through planning, execution, and handoff to long-term owners.
• Create structure and momentum across organizations and leaders with shared ownership.
• Partner across Product, Strategy, Sales, Marketing, Communications, Finance, Legal, Engineering, Public Sector, and Integration teams to align objectives.
• Facilitate executive decision-making by identifying risks, dependencies, tradeoffs, and clear recommendations.
• Serve as trusted advisor to senior leadership, translating strategy into executable plans.
• Create executive-ready updates, recommendations, and progress reports for timely decisions.

Skills

Stakeholder management

Strategic thinking

Executive communication

Execution oriented

Organizational skills

Curiosity across domains

Job description

Mastercard seeks a Director, Integration Initiatives / Special Projects to lead a portfolio of high-priority efforts across Recorded Future integration. You will shape data strategy, commercialization approaches, AI-enabled offerings, and cross-portfolio opportunities, coordinating with Product and Strategy to set the initial roadmap and operating model.

The ideal candidate thrives in ambiguity, influencing senior leaders and driving complex programs from concept to implementation while building