Description
Mastercard is seeking a Director, AI & Data Strategy to advance the company's thinking, frameworks, and practices across AI and data strategy.
The Director will apply deep expertise and extensive experience to deliver key strategic initiatives and make significant improvements to new and existing products, services, and business processes.
Key Responsibilities:
- Champion the responsible incorporation of advanced analytics, generative AI, agentic AI, and other innovative methodologies into core products, services, processes, and decision-making frameworks.
- Collaborate with legal, privacy, compliance, risk, technology, data, product, and business teams to embed responsible AI and data practices into operational workflows, product-development processes, and strategic decisions.
- Monitor evolving regulatory requirements, industry standards, ethical expectations, and societal concerns.
- Promote a culture of data literacy, responsible experimentation, and informed decision-making.
- Create reusable frameworks, assessment models, research methods, decision tools, and best practices that improve the consistency and quality of AI and data strategy across Mastercard.
- Mentor colleagues by sharing specialist knowledge, emerging research, innovative techniques, and best practices.
Requirements:
- Recognized subject-matter expertise in AI strategy, data strategy, responsible AI, AI governance, technology policy, or a closely related discipline.
- Significant experience applying specialist knowledge to complex business, technology, regulatory, or societal challenges.
- Deep understanding of generative AI, agentic AI, machine learning, advanced analytics, and the data foundations required to support these capabilities.
- Demonstrated ability to lead research and horizon-scanning activities and translate emerging developments into strategic business implications.
- Experience developing advanced governance frameworks, ethical standards, guardrails, assessment models, or responsible innovation practices.
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