Vice President- AI, Center of Excellence

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.

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. 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 AI Center of Excellence is seeking a Vice President, AI Engineering - AI CoE to lead the delivery and scale of enterprise AI products, agentic AI solutions, and new and evolving AI capabilities across Mastercard.

This is a people manager role leading a global AI Engineering organization responsible for moving AI from experimentation to production-grade, reusable products and capabilities. The Vice President will focus on AI engineering delivery and execution, translating business priorities into AI solutions, shared capabilities, and measurable outcomes while ensuring security, reliability, governance, and operational excellence.

About the Role

• Lead end-to-end AI engineering delivery from solution design through development, production deployment, adoption, and value realization.
• Build and scale reusable AI assets, agent patterns, multi-agent orchestration, workflow automation, shared components, and new and evolving AI capabilities that accelerate delivery and reduce duplication.
• Drive execution against prioritized business needs, ensuring AI initiatives deliver measurable business value.
• Partner across AI Platform Engineering, Infrastructure, Data, Security, Architecture, Risk, Product, and business teams to deliver secure, scalable enterprise AI solutions.
• Own production readiness, including reliability, resiliency, observability, scalability, lifecycle management, and operational performance.
• Embed Responsible AI, security, privacy, governance, compliance, and auditability throughout the AI engineering lifecycle.
• Drive adoption and measure product performance, customer impact, productivity, risk reduction, and business outcomes.
• Lead and develop a global organization of AI engineering leaders, architects, and AI engineers, building talent, accountability, and engineering excellence.

All About You

• Years of leadership experience in AI engineering, software or product engineering, or enterprise technology delivery.
• Proven success delivering and scaling enterprise AI products, agentic AI applications, intelligent automation, or mission-critical digital platforms.
• Strong technical understanding of agentic AI, generative AI, large language models (LLMs), multi-agent orchestration, workflow automation, and new and evolving AI capabilities.
• Experience with hybrid cloud and cloud-native architectures, distributed systems, APIs, enterprise integration, and modern AI engineering.
• Experience leading production technology in highly regulated environments with accountability for security, resiliency, governance, compliance, and risk.