Vice President of Token Authentication Solutions

Mastercard; New York (NY); On-site; USD 260,000 - 380,000; Full time

Job summary

Mastercard is seeking a visionary Vice President to lead Token Authentication Solutions within Checkout Services in New York. This role shapes the vision and execution roadmap for authentication on tokenized transactions and collaborates across issuers, merchants, and partners to deliver secure digital payments.

The leader will drive product development for passkeys, data sharing, and Digital Payment Credentials while balancing long-term innovation with near-term impact.

Qualifications

• Senior product leader with a track record in digital payments and authentication.
• Experience aligning product strategy with business growth and partnerships.
• Demonstrated ability to influence issuers, merchants, and ecosystem partners.

Responsibilities

• Define and execute token authentication solutions, including roadmap and investment priorities.
• Scale authentication methods across tokenized transactions and partner ecosystems.
• Lead evolution of the token authentication framework for partners and issuers.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to translate strategy into requirements and deployments.
• Represent Mastercard externally with customers, partners, and standards bodies like FIDO and W3C.
• Build and grow a high-performing product organization with strong ownership and collaboration.

Skills

Product leadership

Strategic planning

Stakeholder management

Ecosystem partnerships

Digital payments

Tokenization

Tools

APIs

Standards integration

Job description

• Mastercard Checkout Services team is building the future of digital commerce by making online payments more secure, seamless, and trusted. Tokenization and authentication are strategic pillars of that vision across all digital payment use cases, such as card on file checkout, guest checkout, and Agentic commerce
• We are looking for a visionary and execution-focused Vice President, Token Authentication Solutions to lead the development and deployment of Mastercard’s suite of authentication methods enabled on tokenized transactions, such as payment passkeys and enhanced data sharing
• This leader will be responsible for managing the token authentication framework and enhancing the token authentication service that allows merchants to access secure and seamless token authentication solutions. The successful candidate will operate at the intersection of product strategy, product development, issuer and merchant partnerships, standardization and integration of emerging authentication technologies such as Digital Payment Credentials
• This leadership role requires strong business acumen, product leadership, ecosystem influence, and the ability to develop and deploy innovative products
• Lead Mastercard’s Token Authentication Solutions domain within Checkout Services, shaping the vision, strategy, and execution roadmap for authentication capabilities on tokenized transactions
• Own the evolution of the token authentication framework and related services that enable merchants, issuers, and ecosystem partners to deliver secure, seamless, and trusted digital payment experiences
• Drive product development and deployment of authentication methods such as payment passkeys, enhanced data sharing, and emerging capabilities aligned to Digital Payment Credentials
• Partner across Mastercard and the broader payments ecosystem to influence issuers, merchants, processors, technology partners, wallet providers, and standards bodies
• Balance long-term innovation with near-term business impact, scaling the deployment of authentication solutions while ensuring Mastercard continues to lead the payment industry.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the definition and execution of token authentication solutions, including business cases, investment priorities, product roadmap, and executive stakeholder alignment
• Prioritize and scale authentication solutions such as payment passkeys, enhanced data sharing, Digital Payment Credentials, and emerging authentication methods across tokenized transactions, including card-on-file, guest checkout, and agentic commerce
• Lead the evolution of the token authentication framework, B2B services for acceptance partners and issuers to enable the token authentication solutions, and B2C passkey service
• Partner across product, engineering, regional, commercial, legal, and operations teams to translate strategy into requirements, analyze new use cases, develop scalable solutions, enable market adoption, and support global acceptance partners and issuers implementing our products
• Represent Mastercard externally with customers, partners, industry bodies, and standards organizations such as FIDO and W3C
• Build, lead, and develop a high-performing product organization with strong ownership, customer focus, technical fluency, disciplined execution, and inclusive collaboration

Strong track record of defining product strategy and translating vision into business growth, adoption, product scale, and measurable outcomes

Demonstrated ability to partner effectively with engineering leadership to build scalable, resilient, and efficient platforms, services, and delivery models

Experience with digital commerce products, APIs, developer ecosystems, customer-facing solutions, and implementation models that support adoption at scale

Strong people leadership skills, with a record of building, developing, and retaining high-performing teams across geographies and functions

Deep understanding of tokenized transactions, authentication flows, and Mastercard ecosystem

Senior product leadership experience in digital payments, authentication, identity, tokenization, or adjacent technology-led sectors