Senior Vice President, Global Debit

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Job Title

Senior Vice President, Global DebitOverview:

The Senior Vice President, Global Debit is responsible for the global strategy, performance, innovation, commercialization, and transformation of Mastercard's Debit business. The role leads Mastercard's efforts to defend and grow Debit globally through product differentiation, payments sovereignty initiatives, issuer economics optimization, debit modernization, and strategic market transformation programs. The executive owns key enterprise priorities including Debit CVP evolution, Affluent Debit expansion, Maestro-to-Debit Mastercard migration, Cost of Acceptance programs, co-badging strategy, multi-currency capabilities, and emerging consumer payment innovations.

Role and Responsibilities:

• Accountable for the global Debit portfolio strategy, roadmap, commercial priorities, and product performance across regions.

• Contribute to CPP’s ambition to make Mastercard the consumer’s number one way to pay by building differentiated Debit value propositions, defending debit relevance, scaling digital consumer experiences, and ensuring Debit remains competitive across physical, digital, wallet-led, and emerging payment flows.

• Dedicated enterprise owner for Debit product management and portfolio optimization, translating global strategy into regional execution and measurable business outcomes.

• Lead through influence in a highly matrixed global system, aligning regional presidents/product leads, Technology, Franchise, Legal, Finance, Marketing, Account Management, Customer Delivery, and external customers around product priorities, investment trade-offs, market launches, and commercial commitments.

• Customer-facing and serving as a credible executive voice for Mastercard’s Debit strategy with issuers, merchants, fintechs, and strategic partners.

• Drive innovation that strengthens Debit preference and usage, including digital-first Debit experiences, enhanced security and control, lifecycle engagement, affluent and essential Debit propositions, tokenization and wallet provisioning, debit e-commerce enablement, and integration of emerging capabilities.

• Disciplined product management, experimentation, customer insight, and scalable platform thinking to modernize Debit and translate innovation into adoption and revenue.

All About You:

• Expert product portfolio strategy: define and execute a global Debit product line strategy (including CVPs), roadmap, segmentation, CVP evolution, and market prioritization.

• Expert debit and consumer payments expertise: understand issuer, merchant, acquirer, wallet, domestic scheme, and consumer value drivers in global Debit ecosystems.

• Advanced commercial and P&L management: build business cases, manage forecasts, optimize economics, and translate product strategy into measurable revenue, GDV, share, and adoption outcomes.

• Advanced global go-to-market and commercialization: partner with regional and market teams to launch and scale products, strengthen sales enablement, and drive consistent customer narratives.

• Advanced technology and product delivery leadership: partner with Engineering and platform teams to prioritize scalable capabilities, improve digital CX, and deliver roadmap commitments.

• Expert stakeholder influence and executive communications: simplify complex trade-offs, mobilize matrix teams, and engage senior internal and external stakeholders with clarity and credibility.

• Advanced people leadership: build, coach, and retain a high-performing global product team with disciplined operating rhythms, talent development, and accountability.

• Payments Sovereignty Expertise: Deep understanding of domestic schemes, routing, co-badging, and regulatory trends impacting Debit

• Pricing & Economics Strategy: Experience designing and implementing large-scale economics programs, interchange optimization, and acceptance strategies

• Demonstrated track record launching, scaling, modernizing, or defending payment products across markets in partnership with regional, technology, sales, product marketing, franchise, legal, and risk teams.

• Consumer Payments Innovation: Expertise in Debit, wallets, tokenization, digital commerce, and consumer value propositions.

• Recognized internally and externally as a payments/product leader with a point of view on the evolution of Debit, consumer payment preference, digital commerce, wallet-led experiences, issuer economics, and customer value creation. Able to represent Mastercard’s Debit strategy with customers and senior leaders and translate market trends into a practical product agenda

• Experience leading large-scale product migrations or portfolio transformations.

• Track record influencing regulators, payment ecosystems, issuers, and strategic partners.

• Experience balancing growth, economics, regulatory pressures, and competitive threats from domestic schemes and A2A models.

• Demonstrated success scaling products globally across multiple regions and customer segments.

THIS POSTING RELECTS ONE OR MORE CURRENT VACANCIES ON OUR TEAM, AND MASTERCARD INTENDS TO FILL THIS POSITION BY 01/14/2027. If the fill date has passed, Mastercard intends to fill this position as soon as possible.

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.