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Our Purpose
We work 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. We cultivate a culture of inclusion for all employees that respects their individual strengths, views, and experiences. We believe that our differences enable us to be a better team – one that makes better decisions, drives innovation and delivers better business results.
Who are Mastercard?
Mastercard is a technology company in the global payments business. We connect consumers, financial institutions, merchants, governments and businesses worldwide and enable them to use secure and convenient electronic forms of payment. Mastercard is a driving force at the heart of commerce, enabling global transactions and bringing insight into the payments process to make commerce faster, more secure, and more valuable to everyone involved. As a critical link among financial institutions and millions of businesses, cardholders and merchants worldwide, Mastercard provides services in more than 210 countries and territories.
Mastercard Intern Program
The Mastercard Intern Program is a comprehensive program where students will gain hands on real work-life skills while having fun and contributing to a global company. As an intern, you will be challenged with completing projects that will enhance your skills as well as contribute to the department’s goals and objectives.
Across the 10-12 weeks, you’ll jump into experiencing work & life at Mastercard whilst gaining valuable professional experience and the opportunity to network. Successful interns also have the opportunity to secure a place of our Launch program upon graduating, which you can find out more about here.
Product & Engineering Team
The Product and Engineering team is engineering the future of commerce, unleashing the power of payments, data, and technology to enrich lives everywhere. Their mission is to delight our customers with profitable and brilliantly engineered products that accelerate economic opportunity through ease of access and use, unequalled trust, and availability to all. They enable end-to-end accountability for product development/management, consistent with our engineering principles and standards. Our product and engineering team members are dedicated to working on Programs and the Products within them. Each Product has a product manager and an engineering manager with accountability for what we build and how we build it, respectively.
Program Components
- Impactful assignments that drive business results.
- Networking sessions and leadership speaker’s series.
- Volunteer and team building experiences.
Program Qualifications
- Innovative thinking and thoughtful risk-taking.
- Ability to partner across the organization.
- Sound communication skills.
- Languages: English to professional standard, additional languages would be of an advantage.
- Evidence of strong academics, predicted to achieve UK 2.1 or equivalent.
- Penultimate year student pursuing a bachelor's or master's degree.
- Insight and ability to understand complex technology (does not mean an engineering degree is essential, simply that you can demonstrate ability to understand an engineer)
- Mathematical & analytical skills (A Level Math’s essential)
