VP Business Expansion and Transformation

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

VP Business Expansion and Transformation

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.

Overview

Mastercard powers economies and empowers people in more than 200 countries and territories worldwide. Together with our customers, we’re helping build a sustainable economy where everyone can prosper.

Within Mastercard, the Business & Market Insights (B&MI) organization provides data-driven insights, analytics, and platforms that enable better decision-making for businesses and governments globally. While B&MI has experienced strong momentum, the company’s 2030 growth ambitions require capabilities and revenue streams that do not yet exist today. BET is responsible for finding, shaping, and launching those opportunities.

The Business Expansion & Transformation (BET) team was created to accelerate B&MI’s long-term growth ambitions by identifying and developing new businesses, products, and capabilities beyond our current portfolio. BET works across internal product lines and external ecosystems to identify transformative opportunities that can drive the next generation of growth.

BET operates as Mastercard’s business-creation engine. The team scans across and beyond existing P&L silos to identify transformative opportunities—new products, platforms, and capabilities that unlock value across the Mastercard ecosystem.

This Includes:

• Building, partnering or acquiring our way in entirely new business verticals
• Identifying cross-portfolio product opportunities
• Creating foundational capabilities that enable businesses Mastercard could not previously build
  
  
  

BET does not function as a research lab or innovation incubator. It is a disciplined growth engine responsible for identifying opportunities, shaping them into investable businesses, and advancing them into execution.

Role

The Vice President, Business Expansion & Transformation will be a founding leader within the BET team responsible for designing and operating Mastercard’s opportunity discovery engine.

Reporting to the SVP of Business Expansion & Transformation, this role sits at the intersection of strategy, technology, and ecosystem innovation, translating emerging signals from across markets, research, and startup ecosystems into high-conviction growth opportunities.

The VP will build and run the processes, tools, and networks required to continuously source, evaluate and recommend new opportunity spaces—developing clear investment theses and advancing the most promising opportunities toward development and launch.

This role requires a combination of strategic thinking, venture-style opportunity evaluation, and operational execution within a complex global organization.

• Design and operate BET’s opportunity discovery framework, including strategic aperture definition, operating model, and processes for sourcing and evaluating opportunities.
• Establish structured pathways that translate early signals into actionable business opportunities.
• Develop a broad signal detection network spanning frontier research, emerging technologies, startup and venture ecosystems, regulatory developments, and industry shifts.
• Leverage modern data and AI-enabled tools to build an Agentic engine to identify patterns, surface insights, and accelerate opportunity identification
• Translate early signals into clear opportunity theses supported by market insights, demand validation, and commercial analysis.
• Conduct structured exploration and early diligence to assess strategic fit, customer value, and financial viability.
• Apply consistent evaluation frameworks to prioritize and advance high-conviction opportunities.
• Manage a portfolio of potential growth initiatives across time horizons, risk profiles, and strategic priorities.
• Continuously refresh the opportunity pipeline based on new insights and market developments.
• Define maturity criteria and handoff processes for opportunities transitioning into product development or business build phases.
• Partner closely with Product, Technology, Foundry, Strategy, Finance, and go-to-market teams to ensure successful transition and momentum.
• Help establish BET as a scalable enterprise capability by developing repeatable tools, processes, and governance mechanisms.
• Recruit, mentor, and develop a small team focused on opportunity discovery and evaluation.
  
  
  

All About You

The ideal candidate combines the mindset of a strategist, venture investor, and builder, with the ability to operate effectively within a large, complex enterprise.

Required Skills:

• Significant experience in corporate strategy, management consulting, venture capital, private equity, corporate venture, or new business incubation
• Proven ability to identify, evaluate, and shape new business opportunities
• Experience conducting early-stage opportunity diligence, including market assessment, commercial modelling, and strategic fit analysis
• Strong strategic thinking combined with the ability to execute and drive initiatives forward
• Comfort operating in matrixed organizations and influencing senior stakeholders
• Excellent executive communication and storytelling skills
• Strong curiosity about emerging technologies, new business models, and ecosystem-driven growth
• Technical fluency and familiarity with AI and data-driven tools that accelerate research, signal detection, and insight generation
  
  
  

Mastercard is a merit-based, inclusive, equal opportunity employer that considers applicants without regard to gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, ethnicity, disabled or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. We hire the most qualified candidate for the role. In the US or Canada, if you require accommodations or assistance to complete the online application process or during the recruitment process, please contact reasonable_accommodation@mastercard.com and identify the type of accommodation or assistance you are requesting. Do not include any medical or health information in this email. The Reasonable Accommodations team will respond to your email promptly.

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: $235,000 - $375,000 USD