Description
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.
The Franchise Innovation team is passionate about doing well by doing good. Our mission is to enhance and evolve our existing Franchise offerings - and to create the new business models and technology for our growing business in both new payments and data.
This role is part of a specialized team focusing on innovative solutions to support Mastercard's customers within the diverse Asia Pacific region, enabling our business to expand into new opportunities where Franchise-enabled solutions can be leveraged to drive scale, enable interoperability, create compelling world-class experiences for end-users, and deliver differentiating value to our customers.
Accountabilities:
- Create and deliver on corporate strategies that drive innovative solutions for new business initiatives and product flows, such as push-based account payments, digital assets (crypto, central bank digital currencies, identity solutions, open banking).
- Provide franchise thought leadership regarding enabling new growth opportunities and improving the pace of internal decision-making for new rules developments.
- Develop new concepts that support expanding the franchise and creating additional value for Mastercard and its customers, while ensuring the integrity of our assets.
- Stay ahead of business trends related to new market and business opportunities; understand and communicate potential impact on licenses, rules, compliance, and systems.
- Provide direction for new products and new customer types to transform the payment ecosystem, based on nuanced regional/country landscapes and the advancement of industry rules and standards.
- Leverage input from internal stakeholders to enhance and align existing and new requirements on standards, as well as Mastercard assets to enable Franchise growth.
- Ensure new products/platforms will protect the brand integrity while driving new business and/or protecting existing business.
- Execute on the team goals to achieve Franchise priorities in tandem with regional business objectives.
Requirements:
- Extensive knowledge of our payments business and experience in account-based payments, crypto, or open banking.
- Attention to detail, strong business acumen, and solutions-orientation are critical, as is an ability to demonstrate thought leadership.
- Technical and/or product development experience.
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, agility, and creative thinking skills.
- Strong interpersonal skills with demonstrated cross-functional/cross-regional collaboration and teamwork.
- Solutions-oriented/results-driven capabilities.
- Ability to interact effectively with internal and external business partners.
- Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written – ability to build compelling presentations.
- Periodic travel required.
- Bachelor's Degree.