Vice President, Data Management Platforms (Product Development)

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, Data Management Platforms (Product Development)

Who is Mastercard? Mastercard is a global technology company in the payments industry. Our mission is to connect and power an inclusive, digital economy that benefits everyone, everywhere by making transactions safe, simple, smart, and accessible. Using secure data and networks, partnerships and passion, our innovations and solutions help individuals, financial institutions, governments, and businesses realize their greatest potential.

Our decency quotient, or DQ, drives our culture and everything we do inside and outside of our company. With connections across more than 210 countries and territories, we are building a sustainable world that unlocks priceless possibilities for all.

Overview The Data Governance and Enablement team is looking for a Vice President, Data Management Platforms to lead business product management for Mastercard’s enterprise metadata, catalog, governance, lineage, marketplace, and usage/observability platform capabilities. This role is accountable for the product strategy, roadmap, adoption priorities, and measurable business outcomes for platforms such as Atlan and related metadata ecosystem capabilities.

The ideal candidate is a strong enterprise product leader who can partner with Technology to turn strategy into scalable platform capabilities, while serving Data Governance teams and data user communities as key internal customers. This role will help make trusted metadata available through an enterprise context layer so users, platforms, data products, analytics, and AI use cases can better discover, understand, govern, and reuse Mastercard data.

Role In this enterprise product leadership position, you will:

• Own the business product strategy, roadmap, and measurable outcomes for Mastercard’s data management platform capabilities, including metadata, catalog, lineage, marketplace, governance, and usage/observability capabilities.

• Partner with Technology to translate platform strategy into scalable implementation plans, integrations, release priorities, controls, and operational support models.

• Lead the product direction for the data catalog and governance platform, and related metadata ecosystem capabilities, including connectivity expansion, metadata publication, lineage, classification, data product and marketplace integration, and transition from legacy cataloging capabilities where appropriate.

• Partner with the Platform Onboarding team to scale adoption, onboarding, training, communications, user readiness, and operational engagement across data stewards, data product owners, engineering teams, analysts, data scientists, and AI/platform teams.

• Serve Data Governance teams and data users communities as key internal customers, translating governance standards, stewardship needs, data product requirements, marketplace needs, and certification expectations into practical platform capabilities.

• Advance Mastercard’s enterprise metadata context layer by making trusted definitions, ownership, lineage, usage, certification, and governance signals available to users, platforms, analytics, and AI use cases.

• Build and lead a high-performing team responsible for platform product management, stakeholder engagement, prioritization, adoption measurement, and continuous improvement across Mastercard’s data knowledge ecosystem.

All About You The ideal candidate for this position should:

• Extensive experience with data catalog and data governance platforms

• Understand metadata, data cataloging, lineage, governance workflows, data products, marketplace concepts, usage/observability signals, or similar enterprise data management capabilities.

• Have advanced business product management expertise for enterprise platforms, including strategy, roadmap ownership, stakeholder alignment, prioritization, adoption, implementation partnership, and lifecycle management.

• Be able to work effectively with Technology teams to turn business, governance, and platform needs into implementable capabilities and sustainable operating models.

• Operate effectively across Data Governance, Technology, Privacy, Security, Product, and regional stakeholders, balancing usability, control, scalability, and auditability.

• Communicate clearly with senior leaders and cross-functional partners, including the ability to explain metadata, governance, platform, and context-layer concepts in business terms.

• Develop talent, set clear objectives, and create an environment where teams can deliver consistently across complex enterprise platform and governance programs.

Corporate Security Responsibility Every person working for, or on behalf of, Mastercard is responsible for information security. All activities involving access to Mastercard assets, information, and networks comes with an inherent risk to the organization and therefore, it is expected that the successful candidate for this position 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.

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 reasonable_accommodation@mastercard.com 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 O'Fallon, Missouri: $204,000 - $326,000 USD

Arlington, Virginia: $235,000 - $375,000 USD

Purchase, New York: $235,000 - $375,000 USD