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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.
Apply for our Summer Internship program and spend your summer enhancing your skills, sharing your ideas and making a difference in the real world.
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. M
astercard 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 Summer Internship Programme
The Mastercard Summer Internship 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 summer, 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.
Programme Components
- Challenging and impactful projects
- Networking, mentorship, and access to senior leaders
- Volunteer and team building experiences
- Participation in a global innovation challenge that could have material impact on Mastercard’s future
What you’ll do
There are a number of different opportunities within Product Management this summer. Roles in this family oversee product evolution, establish go-to-market strategy, optimize products and resources, implement incremental improvements within the product’s life cycle and conduct ongoing care and maintenance. Typical responsibilities include:
- Assisting in analysing and interpreting user data, considering context and bias in data, and making a point to highlight data issues/inconsistencies
- Seeking to understand Mastercard's business operations and how value is created at each step of the payments value chain
- Developing awareness of key business issues and major stakeholders in own area by helping to perform research & analysis
- Asking meaningful and appropriate questions to understand and translate business requirements into desired functionality
- Approaching work situations with intellectual curiosity regularly sharing ideas for process modifications/ improvements
Teams looking for Product Management Interns this summer include Infrastructure Product Commercialisation, UK Product & Delivery, Send Enablement, Reach and Optimisation, Digital Assets & Blockchain, Gateway Commercialisation, Real Time Payments, Technical Program Management, Cross Border Services, Open Banking, Small Business Segment, UK&I Customer Solutions, Cyber & Intelligence, Merchant Solutions, Insights & Optimisation and Loyalty Solutions.
Based on your profile, you would be matched to team seen to best align with your skillset and learn more about them at interview stage but if you have a particular area of interest, please highlight this in your application.
What you’ll need
- To be available to work Full-Time between approx. Mid-June to Early-Sept
- To be a Penultimate Masters/Undergraduate Student, due to graduate no earlier than 2024
- Innovative thinking and thoughtful risk-taking.
- Ability to partner across the organization.
- Sound communication skills.
COVID-19 Considerations
In many locations, we’ve implemented a virtual hiring process and continue to interview candidates by video or phone. In addition, in our NYC offices, as required by law, only individuals who have been fully vaccinated against COVID-19 will be permitted inside Mastercard offices unless a reasonable accommodation has been approved in advance.
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.
