The VP of Global Platforms for Mastercard Open Finance leads product strategy and execution for platform capabilities bridging multiple teams and driving adoption and compliance within a regulated environment.

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 Global Platforms - Mastercard Open Finance
Overview
We are seeking a senior platform product leader to serve as Vice President Global Platforms - Mastercard Open Finance. This role owns the platform product strategy and execution for the shared capabilities that power Mastercard's Open Finance ecosystem-setting the vision prioritizing investment and driving measurable adoption convergence and business outcomes across markets.
The VP will define the platform roadmap across APIs consent and permissioning identity and access patterns shared services reliability and compliance enablers treating these as products with clear personas (internal product teams developers partners and clients) value propositions and success metrics. This role partners closely with Product Engineering Security Legal Regional Markets Connectivity and Commercial teams across Americas and APEMEA to scale capabilities that accelerate time-to-market reduce cost-to-serve and improve ecosystem trust.
Role
Platform Product Strategy & Roadmap• Define and lead the global platform product vision strategy and multi-year roadmap aligning investment to Open Finance growth priorities and regulatory requirements.• Establish clear platform product portfolios (e.g. consent data services trust services) including positioning target users and go-to-market enablement in partnership with commercial teams.• Own prioritization and trade-offs across markets and products; translate strategy into sequenced outcomes dependency management and transparent communications.• Define platform product requirements and guardrails (standards data models API contracts) that enable reuse while allowing necessary regional variation.
Platform Delivery Service Management & Business Outcomes• Partner with Engineering leadership to deliver secure highly available and performant platform services at global scale with clear product ownership and release discipline.• Define and track platform success metrics (adoption usage latency/availability integration time cost-to-serve incident rates) and drive continuous improvement against targets.• Establish operating mechanisms for roadmap delivery (quarterly planning OKRs launch readiness dependency management) to ensure predictable outcomes across regions.• Drive modernization initiatives (cloud patterns automation observability) as product investments tied to reliability speed and scalability outcomes.
Developer & Ecosystem Enablement• Champion a developer-first platform experience with world-class APIs documentation SDKs sandboxes tooling and self-service onboarding.• Design and run enablement programs for internal teams and external partners (reference implementations integration guides certification paths) to accelerate adoption and reduce integration effort.• Engage with strategic partners to gather feedback validate platform value and evolve the roadmap based on real ecosystem needs.
Trust Security & Compliance by Design• Embed trust-by-design as a platform product feature set (consent permissioning auditability data minimization) partnering with Security Privacy Risk and Legal.• Translate regulatory and policy requirements into scalable platform controls standards and reusable patterns for product teams and regional implementations.• Maintain accountability for platform-level resilience and incident management including risk-based prioritization and post-incident learning loops.
Global Leadership & Governance• Manage a global team of Directors in a multi-layered structure• Lead and mentor platform product and technology leaders across geographies building strong product management and delivery disciplines.• Establish a platform operating model (intake prioritization funding governance SLAs) that enables fast decisions clear accountability and global alignment.• Represent platform strategy health and outcomes to executive leadership including progress against OKRs and key ecosystem commitments.
All About You
• Extensive experience leading platform products and/or platform organizations (APIs data connectivity identity/consent shared services) with senior accountability for outcomes.• Background in defining platform strategy roadmaps and OKRs balancing developer experience reliability security and commercial impact.• Strong understanding of financial services and Open Finance ecosystems including permissioned data access consent and regulatory considerations.• Proven success partnering with Engineering Security Privacy Legal and Commercial teams to deliver platform capabilities in a highly regulated environment.• Strong track record driving adoption (self-serve onboarding integrations enablement) and improving platform economics (cost-to-serve reuse standardization).• Strategic outcome-oriented leader with executive influence and hands-on credibility; able to operate across global matrixed stakeholders.
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 [email protected] 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.
Pay Ranges
Purchase New York: $235000 - $375000 USD
Salt Lake City Utah: $204000 - $326000 USD