Director, Strategic Growth /Special Projects

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.

Overview

The Recorded Future integration team is looking for a Director, Integration Initiatives / Special Projects to lead a select portfolio of high-priority initiatives that sit across multiple functions, organizations, and leaders. As Mastercard and Recorded Future continue to integrate and identify new opportunities for growth, this role will bring structure, accountability, and momentum to initiatives where ownership is distributed and end-to-end outcomes require strong cross-functional orchestration. The ideal candidate will be intellectually curious, commercially minded, highly collaborative, and comfortable operating in ambiguity. Success requires the ability to understand underlying business issues, shape recommendations, align stakeholders, drive decisions, escalate risks, and transition work into the appropriate long-term business owner once the operating model is established.

Responsibilities

• Identify, shape, and incubate initiatives that create long-term growth for Recorded Future within Mastercard, including data strategy, commercialization approaches, product adjacency opportunities, AI-enabled offerings, and other cross-portfolio opportunities.
• Work with Product and Strategy teams to establish the initial roadmap and operating model before transitioning ownership into the appropriate business function.
• Lead a portfolio of strategic, cross-functional initiatives that are critical to the long-term success of the Mastercard and Recorded Future partnership.
• Drive initiatives from initial assessment and recommendation through planning, execution, operationalization, and handoff to long-term business owners.
• Create structure, accountability, and momentum in areas where ownership spans multiple organizations, leaders, or functional teams.
• Partner across Product, Strategy, Sales, Marketing, Communications, Finance, Legal, Engineering, Public Sector, and Integration teams to align objectives, clarify dependencies, and move work forward.
• Facilitate executive decision-making by identifying risks, dependencies, tradeoffs, and clear recommendations.
• Serve as a trusted advisor to senior leadership, coordinating activities across stakeholder groups and helping translate strategic intent into executable plans.
• Create executive-ready updates, recommendations, and progress reports that enable timely decisions and maintain visibility into priority work.

Qualifications

The ideal candidate for this position should:

• Be comfortable operating in ambiguity and creating clarity where priorities, ownership, and decision rights are still evolving.
• Bring advanced stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence across senior leaders and cross-functional teams without relying solely on formal authority.
• Demonstrate strong strategic judgment, including the ability to diagnose business issues, frame options, assess tradeoffs, and guide leaders toward decisions.
• Be highly organized and execution-oriented, with a track record of moving complex, enterprise-level work from concept to implementation.
• Communicate complex topics clearly and succinctly through executive-ready written updates, recommendations, roadmaps, and decision materials.
• Show curiosity about cyber, intelligence, payments, public sector, and adjacent growth opportunities, with the ability to quickly learn new business domains.
• Model Mastercard values and bring a collaborative, practical, and enterprise-minded approach to building durable operating models.

Corporate Security Responsibility

Every person working for, or on behalf of, Mastercard is responsible for information security. All activities involving access to Mastercard assets, information, and networks come with an inherent risk to the organization and therefore, it is expected that the successful candidate for this position 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;
• Complete all periodic mandatory security trainings in accordance with Mastercard’s guidelines.

Benefits

Mastercard benefits for full time (and certain part time) employees generally include:

• 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, pro-rated based on date of hire;
• 10 annual paid U.S. observed holidays;
• 401k with a best-in-class company match;
• Deferred compensation for eligible roles;
• Fitness reimbursement or on-site fitness facilities;
• Eligibility for tuition reimbursement;
• And many more.

Mastercard benefits for interns generally include:

• 56 hours of Paid Sick and Safe Time;
• Jury duty leave;
• On-site fitness facilities in some locations.

Pay

Purchase, New York: $177,000 - $284,000 USD