Vice President, Product Management, Agentic Commerce

US: Mastercard International Incor; New York (NY); On-site; USD 245,000 - 391,000; Full time

Job summary

Mastercard Inc. seeks a Vice President, Product Management, Agentic Commerce to lead the strategy and execution of agentic payments at scale.

You will partner with leaders across legal, treasury, partnerships, and regional teams to translate market insights into a commercial roadmap and customer-centric experiences. You will drive the product vision for agentic commerce, enable AI agents to transact securely, and coordinate with external ecosystem partners to accelerate adoption.

Qualifications

• More than 10 years of demonstrated product leadership and cross-functional leadership.
• Comfortable acting as a decision maker in high-ambiguity, high-pressured workstreams.
• Strong knowledge of consumer and B2B payments across multiple rails including card networks, crypto/stablecoin.

Responsibilities

• Act as product and business/strategy lead and interface with executives.
• Build and maintain partnerships across franchise, legal, treasury, digital assets, partnerships, and regional teams.
• Develop and refine product value propositions for diverse markets and customer sets.
• Drive inputs for the commercial strategy: pricing, P&L, and long-term revenue projections.
• Serve as the internal and external voice representing product strategy in engagements.
• Define strategy for development, pilots, go-to-market, and scaling; assess product-market fit.
• Plan and track product performance and plan enhancements to address evolving requirements.
• Support adjacent products and create connections between features.

Skills

Analytical ability

Strategic thinking

Emotional intelligence

Decision making

Fintech knowledge

Presentation skills

Communication

Agentic commerce awareness

Education

Bachelor's degree

Job description

Title and Summary Vice President, Product Management, Agentic Commerce

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.

Overview Mastercard’s Agentic & Digital Growth Products team is looking for a Vice President, Product Management, Agentic Commerce to serve as a global product leader, business strategy owner, and key decisionmaker for Mastercard’s flagship agentic commerce products, with a mission to enable AI agents and autonomous systems to transact securely at high velocity and massive scale.

The ideal candidate will be highly motivated, intellectually curious, analytical, and excited by the challenge of balancing the needs of many diverse stakeholders. Our team leads Mastercard's efforts to build and scale digital payment products that enable commerce across devices, contexts, and geographies. We work with the biggest names in tech, e-commerce and financial services to leverage Mastercard's technological capabilities to solve partner business problems, create new propositions, and ensure seamless, secure and inclusive payments.

Role

The Vice President, Product Management, Agentic Commerce will be focused on defining key elements of Mastercard's strategy to enable access to digital credentials wherever AI agents are enabled to initiate or facilitate payments. They will act as a close partner and counterpart to the leaders driving the development and implementation of Agent Pay and Agent Pay for Machines globally, providing direct leadership to ensure these products and associated value-added services quickly scale in market. This individual will act as the primary orchestrator across product, franchise, legal, treasury, and regional teams. They will also act as a leader in representing our vision for agentic commerce to external ecosystem partners, building trust and credibility together with partnerships and account teams. Success in this endeavor will mean delivering a robust commercial strategy for the products in focus, a cutting-edge customer and developer experience, and rapid validation and iteration of these products with customers — driving towards measurable results for Mastercard and ecosystem partners. This individual will assemble and lead a team that draws on the full breadth of Mastercard’s technology stack to develop and commercialize the product, driving adoption of secure digital payments to new contexts, interfaces, and market segments.

• Act as product and business/strategy lead. Collaborate and interface daily with internal and external stakeholders and customers, including frontier AI labs, agentic commerce providers, large issuers, digital wallets, merchants, acquirers, and payment service providers, to ensure the strategic (competitive, commercial) landscape is thoroughly understood, documented, and incorporated into the product roadmap. Regularly present these findings to executive leadership.
• Build and maintain healthy partnerships across franchise, legal, treasury, digital assets, partnerships, and regional teams to accelerate delivery of the product vision.
• Help to develop and refine product value propositions that resonate with customers, balance contrasting interests among customer sets, and function across target markets and regions with different consumer-level considerations.
• Drive primary inputs for the commercial strategy for the products, including pricing at the global and regional level, ongoing P&L management, and long-term revenue projections.
• Serve as the primary internal and external voice representing the product strategy in customer and partner engagements.
• Help to define the strategy for development, pilot, go-to-market, and scaling of the products, continual assessment of product/market fit, and direction on product pivots.
• Plan and track product performance and develop product enhancements to address emerging customer requirements or scale customer adoption.
• Support adjacent products, and drive connections between products and features.

All About You

• You possess a blend of analytical capability, strategic thinking, and emotional intelligence, and are able to dive deeply into all areas of the business to deliver creative solutions to unstructured problems.
• You have more than 10 years of demonstrated product leadership, having driven cross‑functional teams through successful zero‑to‑one and one‑to‑many product journeys.
• Comfortable acting as a decision maker in high‑ambiguity, high‑pressure workstreams. You have a demonstrated ability to synthesize disorganized inputs and oppositional stakeholder interests into a cohesive strategic point of view.
• Strong knowledge of the business drivers of consumer and B2B payments, with experience across multiple payment rails, including card networks, crypto/stablecoin, and more. Possess a keen understanding of the tradeoffs between rails and flows for merchants, PSPs, Issuers, consumers, and SME buyers.
• Awareness and understanding of Mastercard's key customers, partners, and external stakeholders in these areas, including issuers, payment service providers, acquirers, digital wallet operators, and merchants.
• High degree of comfort with agentic product development – you’d be excited to showcase a few personal or professional projects, and you can distinguish between high-quality and low-quality AI practices.
• Deep fluency in fintech, including strong technology foundations and thorough industry awareness.
• Fluency in the business side of the tech industry, including current movers in AI (frontier), agentic commerce enablement, and digital assetsYou possess a blend of analytical capability, strategic thinking, and emotional intelligence, and are able to dive deeply into all areas of the business to deliver creative solutions to unstructured problems.
• Extremely strong presentation skills, supported by excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Comfortable communicating strategy, competitive insights, and complex ideas to executive leadership.
• Willing to hear new ideas and objectively consider contrary viewpoints in the interest of achieving the best possible customer outcomes.

Bachelor's degree required

AI2 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, 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.

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.

THIS POSTING RELECTS ONE OR MORE CURRENT VACANCIES ON OUR TEAM, AND MASTERCARD INTENDS TO FILL THIS POSITION BY 10/22/2026. If the fill date has passed, Mastercard intends to fill this position as soon as possible.

Pay Ranges New York City, New York: $245,000 - $391,000 USD O'Fallon, Missouri: $204,000 - $326,000 USD San Francisco, California: $245,000 - $391,000 USD

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.