Associate Consultant Intern, Program Management 2027 - São Paulo, Brazil

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

Associate Consultant Intern, Program Management 2027 - São Paulo, Brazil

What team will I join? Mastercard’s Advisors & Consulting Services (A&CS) team helps clients drive impact through data-driven insights, hands-on implementation, and a collaborative, tech-enabled culture. We invest in talent through global engagements, continuous learning, and programs like the Global Ambassadors Program, while fostering purpose through volunteerism, pro-bono work, and innovation that benefits both clients and communities.

What will I do? As an Associate Consultant Intern, you will collaborate within small teams to help some of the world's biggest brands answer and implement solutions for their most challenging strategic questions. You will immediately create meaningful contributions through ownership of deliverables and building external relationships with clients. Focusing on technology and data, you will gain broad exposure to a range of industries, including financial services, retail, restaurants, hospitality, and more.

You will:

• Work in small teams to support strategic consulting projects across industries - Collaborate with colleagues across different areas of the organization and gain exposure to business development, account management, and product management

• Analyze data, identify trends, and help translate insights into recommendations

• Create clear and compelling presentations for internal teams and clients

• Support problem solving by structuring challenges and exploring solutions

• Build an understanding of how consulting engagements are delivered end to end

• Participate in volunteer and team building experiences

• Gain exposure to our leadership team through networking sessions and speaker series

• Begin to build relationships with clients to understand their business needs, seek strategic solutions and guide impactful decisions

• Grow by receiving hands-on mentorship from an experienced management team

Five Specialization Tracks We are looking for passionate and talented professionals who share our vision for helping our customers with their most urgent business needs. We are recruiting five specialization tracks that make up our team. Track placement will indicate the types of projects where you will spend most of your time; however, we encourage and enable working across tracks to allow team members to acquire diverse skills and experiences.

Deploy (Program Management)

• Help clients implement, launch, and scale Mastercard products, platforms, and business transformation initiatives. Combine program management, stakeholder engagement, and implementation expertise to guide complex initiatives from strategy into execution.

• Work closely with client and Mastercard teams, coordinate cross-functional efforts, manage risks and dependencies, and drive adoption to ensure clients realize value from their investments.

• Sampling of questions we help our clients answer:

• How can a financial institution successfully implement and launch a new payments, fraud, or digital banking solution while minimizing disruption to customers and internal teams?

• What governance structure, implementation roadmap, and stakeholder engagement plan will best position a client to deliver a large-scale transformation on time and within scope?

• How can a client accelerate adoption and maximize the value of a newly deployed platform, product, or technology investment across its organization?

Bring your Passion and Expertise We recruit for and value the following core competencies:

• Passion: Actively seeks responsibility and takes pride in delivering the highest quality results and recommendations to our clients. Proven record of leadership in a work setting and/or through extracurricular activities.

• Analytic Excellence: Demonstrates a strong aptitude for structured problem solving, analytical, and quantitative skills. Experience using data analysis or querying tools (e.g., SQL, SAS, Excel or Tableau) is an asset (particularly for Performance Analytics or Business Experimentation tracks).

• Business Interest: Clear interest in the world of business, and intuition for the way that companies make decisions.

• Rapid Growth: Eagerness to learn quickly, both through Mastercard's structured training curriculum and organic development opportunities.

• Teamwork: Willingness to work within small teams to produce outstanding deliverables, with a will to win attitude.

• Integrity: Outstanding record of academic achievement. Commitment to Mastercard's values of honesty and integrity with a willingness to embrace and learn from mistakes.

• Diverse Perspective: Brings a unique skillset or approach to the table in every client engagement or internal activity.

• Communication: Ability to communicate complex ideas effectively. Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

What skills and experiences do I need for this internship?

• Undergraduate with an expected graduation date between Dec 2027/ July 2028

• IMMIGRATION STATEMENT IF APPLICABLE

• Eligibility to work and local office language proficiency statements

Why should I choose Mastercard’s internship program? Mastercard's internship program offers more than hands-on work. It provides an opportunity to build skills, expand your network, and make a meaningful impact while working on projects that support business priorities. It provides an opportunity to build skills, expand your network, and make a meaningful impact while working on projects that support business priorities.

As an intern, you'll benefit from:

• Mentorship and coaching from experienced professionals and leaders

• Networking opportunities with fellow interns, employees, and senior leaders

• Professional development experiences focused on career growth and skill-building

• Exposure to innovative technologies and global business challenges

• Volunteer, community engagement, and team-building activities

• At Mastercard, you'll gain real-world experience, grow your professional network, and contribute to work that helps shape the future of payments and technology.

To participate in our job simulation and experience what it’s like to work as a Consultant at Mastercard visit: https://www.theforage.com/simulations/mastercard/advisors-client-services-xvlw

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.