Vice President, Product Management, Agentic Commerce

About the Role

Mastercard’s Agentic & Digital Growth Products team is seeking a Vice President, Product Management, Agentic Commerce to serve as the product leader, business strategy owner, and key decision-maker for Mastercard Agent Pay for Machines—Mastercard's flagship machine commerce product. The mission is to enable AI agents and autonomous systems to transact securely at high velocity and massive scale.

The ideal candidate will be highly motivated, intellectually curious, analytical, and adept at balancing the needs of diverse stakeholders. The team leads Mastercard's efforts to build and scale digital payment products that enable commerce across devices, contexts, and geographies, collaborating with major tech, ecommerce, and financial services partners.

Responsibilities

• Own the end-to-end vision, strategy, roadmap, and commercialization of Mastercard's Agent Pay for Machines product, from Early Access Program (EAP) through commercial launch and global scale.
• Act as the primary product and business/strategy lead, collaborating daily with internal and external stakeholders—including frontier AI labs, agentic commerce providers, issuers, digital wallets, merchants, acquirers, and payment service providers—to ensure a thorough understanding of the competitive and commercial landscape.
• Define and evolve the AP4M ecosystem architecture, including participant roles, trust frameworks, credential models, program rules, and operating standards required to scale machine-to-machine and agent-driven payments globally.
• Direct cross-functional delivery of all AP4M workstreams, spanning onboarding, architecture, buyer agent funding mechanisms, developer tooling, specifications and protocols, credential and registry services, settlement systems, dispute processes, production operations, and reporting.
• Build and maintain partnerships across blockchain, engineering, architecture, franchise, legal, treasury, and regional teams to accelerate product delivery.
• Develop and refine product value propositions that resonate with customers, balance contrasting interests, and function across target markets with varying consumer considerations.
• Drive commercial strategy inputs, including global and regional pricing, ongoing P&L, and long-term revenue projections.
• Serve as the primary internal and external voice for the product in customer and partner engagements.
• Define the strategy for development, pilot, go-to-market, and scaling, continually assessing product/market fit and pivoting as needed.
• Plan and track product performance, developing enhancements to address emerging customer requirements or scale adoption.
• Support adjacent products and drive connections between features.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of strong product leadership, having driven cross-functional teams through successful 0-1 and 1-n product journeys.
• Comfortable acting as a decision-maker in high-ambiguity, high-pressure environments.
• Demonstrated ability to synthesize disorganized inputs and oppositional stakeholder interests into a cohesive strategic point of view.
• Strong experience and knowledge of B2B and consumer payments, including familiarity with multiple payment rails (card networks, stablecoins/crypto, ACH, real-time payments) and their tradeoffs for merchants, PSPs, and SME buyers.
• Awareness of Mastercard’s key customers, partners, and stakeholders, including issuers, payment service providers, acquirers, digital wallet operators, and merchants.
• High degree of comfort and firsthand experience with agentic coding tools, including the ability to distinguish between high- and low-quality AI practices and products.
• Fluency in the tech sector, including deep technology foundations and industry awareness, as well as the business side of AI and blockchain.
• Comfortable rapidly absorbing large volumes of complex business and technical knowledge.
• Blend of analytical capability, strategic thinking, and emotional intelligence to deliver creative solutions to unstructured problems.
• Extremely strong presentation, written, and verbal communication skills, with the ability to convey strategy, competitive insights, and complex ideas to executive leadership.
• Willingness to consider new ideas and challengers objectively to achieve the best customer outcomes.
• Bachelor’s degree required.

Benefits

• Insurance (medical, prescription drug, dental, vision, disability, life).
• Flexible spending account and health savings account.
• Paid leaves (16 weeks of new parent leave, up to 20 days of bereavement leave).
• 80 hours of Paid Sick and Safe Time, 25 days of vacation, and 5 personal days (pro-rated based on hire date).
• 10 annual paid U.S. observed holidays.
• 401k with company match.
• Deferred compensation for eligible roles.
• Fitness reimbursement or on-site fitness facilities.
• Tuition reimbursement.

Pay

New York City, New York: $245,000 - $391,000 USD

O'Fallon, Missouri: $204,000 - $326,000 USD

San Francisco, California: $245,000 - $391,000 USD