# Vice President, Risk Management - Digital Assets

**Company**: Mastercard
**Location**: New York City, New York
**Experience**: executive
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $227,000 - $374,000 USD
**Category**: Finance
**Industry**: Finance

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## Description

Mastercard's Digital Assets Product team is seeking a Vice President (VP), Risk Champion to serve as a First Line of Defense (1LoD) risk leader across its expanding suite of digital asset offerings. This role ensures Mastercard's Digital Assets portfolio scales safely, responsibly, and in alignment with enterprise standards.

**Responsibilities:**

- Risk Program Leadership & Embedding: Drive the integration of the 1LoD risk framework across all Digital Assets product offerings and market expansion initiatives. Embed risk management into business strategy, product development, commercialization, and operational processes.

- Risk Appetite Alignment: Ensure all Digital Assets activities operate within Mastercard's enterprise risk appetite. Balance growth and innovation objectives with appropriate risk controls and governance.

- Enterprise Risk Assessments: Oversee and conduct the execution of risk assessments across the Digital Assets portfolio with cross-functional partners.

- Risk Governance, Committees & Escalation: Ensure material risks, issues, and mitigation plans are reviewed in Business Risk Control Committees (BRCC) or relevant entity-level committees.

- 2LoD & Cross-Functional Coordination: Serve as primary liaison between the Digital Assets business and Risk Management, Compliance, Legal / Regulatory, Treasury, and CRM.

- Strategic Advisory & Market Expansion Support: Partner with Digital Assets leadership to enable responsible market expansion and product scaling.

**Qualifications & Experience:**

- Experience: Strong background in strategy, operations, or product management. Working knowledge of risk management frameworks and regulatory environments. Experience in digital assets, fintech, payments, or emerging technology domains strongly preferred.

- Risk Expertise: Understanding of enterprise risk management (ERM), operational risk, and regulatory compliance.

- Executive Influence: Demonstrated ability to operate with a 'seat at the table' and influence senior stakeholders.

- Strategic Thinking: Ability to connect risk management to business growth and innovation.

- Cross-functional Leadership: Proven ability to drive alignment across diverse global teams.

- Communication: Strong executive presence with the ability to clearly articulate risk priorities to business leadership and senior executives.

**Benefits:**

- 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

- 401k with a best-in-class company match

- Deferred compensation for eligible roles

- Fitness reimbursement or on-site fitness facilities

- Eligibility for tuition reimbursement

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## Skills

### Required
- risk management
- digital assets
- fintech
- payments
- enterprise risk management
- regulatory compliance

### Nice to have
- emerging technology

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