Description
Mastercard is seeking a Vice President, Field CISO, Financial Services, for Europe, to join a global team of senior security advisors responsible for deep customer engagement, executive influence, and cybersecurity thought leadership.
The role operates as a frontline interface to the world’s leading CISOs, shaping strategic partnerships and positioning Mastercard as the trusted authority in cyber resilience, fraud, and digital trust.
Key Responsibilities:
- Serve as a trusted advisor to senior customer executives, including CISOs, CIOs, CROs, and Boards.
- Provide strategic guidance on cybersecurity, cyber resilience, fraud, digital trust, risk management, and emerging technologies.
- Translate complex security concepts into business outcomes, risk reduction, and competitive advantage.
- Lead executive briefings, advisory sessions, and strategic customer engagements.
- Strengthen executive relationships and position Mastercard as a strategic cybersecurity partner.
- Capture customer insights and market trends to influence product, engineering, and innovation roadmaps.
- Partner with Product and Engineering teams to ensure solutions align with evolving enterprise security needs.
- Identify emerging market opportunities, customer requirements, and security challenges.
- Partner with Sales, Product, and Services teams to support strategic customer opportunities.
- Help articulate the business value of Mastercard cybersecurity solutions.
- Contribute to revenue growth, customer retention, and executive customer satisfaction.
- Represent Mastercard at industry conferences, executive forums, customer events, and CISO communities.
- Develop executive-level content, including presentations, white papers, blogs, and market perspectives.
- Serve as a spokesperson for Mastercard's cybersecurity vision and strategy.
- Advise Mastercard leaders on industry trends, cyber threats, competitive dynamics, and emerging risks.
- Drive executive-level alignment across Security, Product, Engineering, Sales, and Services.
- Help scale and mature Mastercard's Field CISO capability globally.
All About You:
- Leadership experience in cybersecurity, information security, technology risk, or related fields.
- Experience as a CISO, Deputy CISO, Chief Security Officer, or equivalent senior cybersecurity leader.
- Proven ability to advise executive stakeholders on cybersecurity strategy, risk, resilience, and transformation.
- Experience working directly with large enterprise customers and executive-level decision makers.
- Background in financial services, payments, technology, healthcare, critical infrastructure, or other highly regulated industries preferred.
- Strong executive presence with the ability to influence C-suite and Board-level stakeholders.
- Exceptional communication skills with the ability to simplify complex technical concepts.
- Proven ability to lead through influence in a global, matrixed organization.
- Deep knowledge of cybersecurity strategy, risk management, threat detection and response, cloud security, identity and Zero Trust, privacy, fraud, digital trust, cyber resilience, AI security, and regulatory frameworks.
- Strong understanding of the evolving cybersecurity, fraud, and digital trust landscape.
- Ability to connect cybersecurity initiatives to business growth, customer value, and risk reduction.
- Experience supporting strategic customer relationships and complex enterprise opportunities.
- Strong understanding of enterprise buying processes and executive decision-making.
- Recognized industry leader with experience speaking at conferences, executive forums, or customer events.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to develop compelling executive narratives.
Preferred Qualifications:
- CISSP, CISM, CRISC, or similar industry certification.
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Cybersecurity, Computer Science, Engineering, Business, or related field.
- MBA or advanced business degree preferred.
- Established network within the cybersecurity and CISO community.
- Experience participating in Board-level cybersecurity discussions.
- Ability to travel up to 50%.