Director, Open Finance & Developers Experience - Commercialization Strategy Analytics

Our Purpose

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.

Title and Summary

Director, Open Finance & Developers Experience - Commercialization Strategy Analytics Who is Mastercard?

Mastercard is a global technology company in the payments industry. Our mission is to connect and power an inclusive, digital economy that benefits everyone, everywhere by making transactions safe, simple, smart, and accessible. Using secure data and networks, partnerships and passion, our innovations and solutions help individuals, financial institutions, governments, and businesses realize their greatest potential.

Our decency quotient, or DQ, drives our culture and everything we do inside and outside of our company. With connections across more than 210 countries and territories, we are building a sustainable world that unlocks priceless possibilities for all.

Services within Mastercard is responsible for acquiring, engaging, and retaining customers by managing fraud and risk, enhancing cybersecurity, and improving the digital payments experience. We provide value-added services and leverage expertise, data-driven insights, and execution

Overview

The Commercialization Strategy team is part of Mastercard's Open Finance & Developers Experience division and brings to life our vision of empowering consumers to benefit from their own financial data. We are passionate about creating solutions that unlock innovation and streamline everyday consumer experiences. Many leading organizations are already using the Mastercard Open Finance & Developers Experience platforms to deliver some of the industry's most compelling services. Open Finance & Developers Experience is a fast-growing area of Mastercard's business, and this team is a key driver helping to scale our business globally and a very exciting place to work!

Mastercard is seeking a visionary and execution-oriented Director to lead the global commercialization and go-to-market strategy for our Enterprise API Developer First Experience. This role will be instrumental in driving adoption, monetization, and ecosystem engagement across Mastercard's API portfolio, ensuring developers and enterprise clients worldwide receive a seamless, high-value experience. The ideal candidate combines strategic acumen with operational rigor and a passion for developer-centric innovation.

The Role

• Conduct market outside-in and enterprise inside-out analysis to identify GTM priorities across regions and verticals.
• Identify and prioritize high-impact use cases across Mastercard enterprise and align them with targeted distribution channels to launch focused, scalable solutions.
• Develop differentiated commercial value propositions, pricing models, and packaging strategies tailored to enterprise use cases and developer needs.
• Build commercial structures to scale strategic partnerships within the global developer ecosystem, including platforms, communities, and technology collaborators.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with Product, Engineering, Sales, and Legal to operationalize GTM plans and ensure readiness across all markets.
• Drive execution of pilot programs and phased rollouts to validate hypotheses and accelerate time-to-market.
• Support feedback loops with developers and enterprise clients to continuously refine offerings and improve the developer experience.
• Monitor performance metrics (e.g., adoption, engagement, conversion) and iterate GTM strategies based on data-driven insights.
• Champion a test-and-learn culture, using experimentation to optimize messaging, positioning, and channel strategies.

All About You

Corporate Security Responsibility

All activities involving access to Mastercard assets, information, and networks comes with an inherent risk to the organization and, therefore, it is expected that every person working for, or on behalf of, Mastercard is responsible for information security and 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, and

Complete all periodic mandatory security trainings in accordance with Mastercard's guidelines.

In line with Mastercard's total compensation philosophy and assuming that the job will be performed in the US, the successful candidate will be offered a competitive base salary and may be eligible for an annual bonus or commissions depending on the role. The base salary offered may vary depending on multiple factors, including but not limited to location, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. 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; and on-site fitness facilities in some locations.

Pay Ranges

Purchase, New York : $179,000 - $305,000 USD