Director, Strategic Growth /Special Projects

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

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, Strategic Growth /Special Projects

Who is Mastercard?

Mastercard is a global technology company in the payments industry. Our mission is to connect and power an inclusive, digital economy that benefits everyone, everywhere by making transactions safe, simple, smart, and accessible. Using secure data and networks, partnerships and passion, our innovations and solutions help individuals, financial institutions, governments, and businesses realize their greatest potential.

Our decency quotient, or DQ, drives our culture and everything we do inside and outside of our company. With connections across more than 210 countries and territories, we are building a sustainable world that unlocks priceless possibilities for all.

Overview

The Recorded Future integration team is looking for a Director, Integration Initiatives / Special Projects to lead a select portfolio of high-priority initiatives that sit across multiple functions, organizations, and leaders. As Mastercard and Recorded Future continue to integrate and identify new opportunities for growth, this role will bring structure, accountability, and momentum to initiatives where ownership is distributed and end-to-end outcomes require strong cross-functional orchestration.

The ideal candidate will be intellectually curious, commercially minded, highly collaborative, and comfortable operating in ambiguity. Success requires the ability to understand underlying business issues, shape recommendations, align stakeholders, drive decisions, escalade risks, and transition work into the appropriate long-term business owner once the operating model is established.

Role

In this position, you will help identify, shape, and incubate initiatives that create long-term growth for Recorded Future within Mastercard, including data strategy, commercialization approaches, product adjacency opportunities, AI-enabled offerings, and other cross-portfolio opportunities. Work with Product and Strategy teams to establish the initial roadmap and operating model before transitioning ownership into the appropriate business function.

• Lead a portfolio of strategic, cross-functional initiatives that are critical to the long-term success of the Mastercard and Recorded Future partnership.
• Drive initiatives from initial assessment and recommendation through planning, execution, operationalization, and handoff to long-term business owners.
• Create structure, accountability, and momentum in areas where ownership spans multiple organizations, leaders, or functional teams.
• Partner across Product, Strategy, Sales, Marketing, Communications, Finance, Legal, Engineering, Public Sector, and Integration teams to align objectives, clarify dependencies, and move work forward.
• Facilitate executive decision-making by identifying risks, dependencies, tradeoffs, and clear recommendations.
• Serve as a trusted advisor to senior leadership, coordinating activities across stakeholder groups and helping translate strategic intent into executable plans.
• Create executive-ready updates, recommendations, and progress reports that enable timely decisions and maintain visibility into priority work.

All About You

The ideal candidate for this position should:

• Be comfortable operating in ambiguity and creating clarity where priorities, ownership, and decision rights are still evolving.
• Bring advanced stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence across senior leaders and cross-functional teams without relying solely on formal authority.
• Demonstrate strong strategic judgment, including the ability to diagnose business issues, frame options, assess tradeoffs, and guide leaders toward decisions.
• Be highly organized and execution-oriented, with a track record of moving complex, enterprise-level work from concept to implementation.
• Communicate complex topics clearly and succinctly through executive-ready written updates, recommendations, roadmaps, and decision materials.
• Show curiosity about cyber, intelligence, payments, public sector, and adjacent growth opportunities, with the ability to quickly learn new business domains.
• Model Mastercard values and bring a collaborative, practical, and enterprise-minded approach to building durable operating models.

Corporate Security Responsibility

• 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;
• Complete all periodic mandatory security trainings in accordance with Mastercard’s guidelines.

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 [e-mail] 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.

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

Purchase, New York: $177,000 - $284,000 USD