Vice President- AI, Center of Excellence

Mastercard; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 220,000 - 320,000; Full time

Job summary

Mastercard is seeking a Vice President, AI Engineering - AI CoE to lead the delivery and scale of enterprise AI products across global teams. You will own end-to-end AI engineering, drive reusable assets, ensure security and governance, and build a high-performing, cross-functional organization of AI leaders and engineers.

This role shapes AI strategy, partners with platform, data, security, risk, and product teams, and delivers measurable business value through responsible AI and robust

Qualifications

• Proven leadership in AI engineering or enterprise technology delivery.
• Experience scaling enterprise AI products and agentic AI applications.
• Strong understanding of generative AI, LLMs, orchestration, and automation.
• Experience with hybrid cloud and distributed systems.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end AI engineering delivery from design to production deployment and adoption.
• Build and scale reusable AI assets and orchestration patterns across teams.
• Drive AI initiatives to deliver measurable business value and risk reduction.
• Partner with AI Platform Engineering, Data, Security, and Product teams to ensure secure, scalable solutions.
• Own production readiness, including reliability, observability, and lifecycle management.
• Embed Responsible AI, governance, and auditability throughout the lifecycle.

Skills

AI leadership

Enterprise AI

Generative AI

LLMs

Cloud-native

Cross-functional leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering/Data Science

Tools

APIs integration

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

Vice President- AI, Center of Excellence

Vice 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.

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.

Corporate Security Responsibility

All activities involving access to Mastercard assets, information, and networks comes with an inherent risk to the organization and, therefore,