Director, Digital Payments Solution Engineer
Mastercard1 day ago
Base Salary
$187k - $318k/yr
Responsibilities
- Define and evolve solution strategy for Mastercard’s digital commerce products from concept through market launch and scale.
- Own technical relationships with global digital partners from ideation through scaled deployment.
- Translate partner requirements into scalable, secure solution architectures using Mastercard payment products and technology platforms.
- Co-create payment solutions with AI agents, digital wallets, commerce platforms, and other digital partners.
- Coordinate Product, Engineering, Operations, and regional teams on technical strategy, delivery timelines, and go-to-market execution.
- Prototype and validate new payment use cases and interfaces with innovation teams.
- Provide technical feasibility assessments and partner feedback for commercial models, pricing, and go-to-market plans.
- Serve as the central technical contact for regional digital teams and ensure consistent solution design and partner onboarding.
- Identify intellectual property opportunities and ensure solutions meet Mastercard data, security, and business model standards.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree required.
- High fluency in AI with deep technical foundations and strong industry awareness of payments.
- Strong knowledge of consumer payments, especially digital wallets, tokenization, and authentication across global markets.
- Understanding of Mastercard’s customers and partners, including issuers, payment service providers, acquirers, digital wallet operators, and merchants.
- Experience working in a global, matrixed organization and managing cross-regional initiatives.
- Ability to communicate strategy, project status, and complex ideas to executive leadership.
- Strong analytical, strategic thinking, problem-solving, written communication, and verbal communication skills.
- Experience with AI/ML platforms, agentic systems, or conversational interfaces is a strong plus.
Benefits
- Competitive base salary and potential annual bonus or commissions depending on the role.
- Medical, prescription drug, dental, vision, disability, and life insurance.
- Flexible spending account, health savings account, 401(k) with company match, and deferred compensation for eligible roles.
- 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 vacation days, 5 personal days, and 10 annual U.S. observed holidays.
- Fitness reimbursement or on-site fitness facilities and potential tuition reimbursement.
- The posting reflects a U.S.-based role and provides a New York City pay range.
Categories
Solutions Engineering
About Mastercard
Mastercard builds and operates a global payments network used by banks, merchants, fintechs, and governments, offering card processing, real-time payments, tokenization, and fraud/risk services. It generates revenue from transaction processing and assessment/service fees across more than 200 countries and territories. Founded in 1966 and headquartered in Purchase, New York, Mastercard is a public company listed on the NYSE (ticker: MA).