Director, Network Products Strategy

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

Director, Network Products Strategy

Director, Network Strategy & Product

Overview
The Director, Network Strategy, will join a fast-growing global team shaping the strategy, vision, and roadmap for Mastercard’s global core payments network. This role sets the north-star for switching and adjacent network products, translating customer and ecosystem needs into clear strategic choices, prioritized roadmaps, and measurable execution. The network is the company’s core strategic asset, directly driving over 60% of Mastercard’s revenue and providing the platform for our other key services.


The role

Strategy, Governance and Planning
• Define and maintain the product vision and north-star across switching and adjacent network products, aligning senior leadership on strategic intent and outcomes
• Lead annual business planning by setting strategic priorities, defining objectives and executive-level KPIs/targets, and establishing a performance cadence that drives decisions and accountability
• Drive the leadership operating rhythm (e.g., ELT, Board, product governance forums) with crisp decision materials that surface options, trade-offs, and recommendations
• Shape product and go-to-market strategy end-to-end—including connectivity and monetization—by identifying market opportunities, framing customer and ecosystem problems, and translating them into prioritized roadmap inputs
• Develop leadership-ready narratives and visuals that marshal facts and analysis into clear recommendations; drive alignment across product, regions, technology, and key stakeholders
• Drive domestic switching growth strategy
• Lead concurrent cross-functional workstreams end-to-end, translating strategy into deliverables (e.g., value propositions, strategy assessments, executive decision decks) and ensuring follow-through to outcomes
• Influence and align stakeholders balancing competing priorities to deliver scaled impact
• Drive disciplined execution and impact measurement across engagements, ensuring clear milestones, risks, and outcomes for strategic initiatives

The candidate
• Superior problem-solving skills; experience in strategy/consulting and/or product strategy roles strongly preferred
• Superior analytical and data management skills
• Demonstrated ability to set product vision, translate customer/ecosystem problems into strategy, and influence roadmap priorities through clear trade-off framing
• Strong planning and project management skills, together with organization and task management experience
• Strong visual presentation skills, including data visualization and the ability to produce clear, compelling slides
• Strong written and oral communications, presentation and interpersonal skills
• Self-starter, adaptable, and quick learner with ability to work independently and to thrive in fast-paced environments
• Strong global collaborator, ability to work cross-functionally, and across cultures and time zones
• Ability to interact with varying levels of leadership across the organization and with internal and external clients; ability to lead and influence at all levels
• Willingness to dive deep and learn about our technology, system structure, and rules
• Previous experience with international and multidisciplinary teams is preferred

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.