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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. You find more information on www.mastercardworldwide.com.
European Technology Hub in Dublin
Mastercard Ireland opened its operations in 2008 with 36 staff and since then has grown to over 1000 people. Today, it is a vibrant, multi-cultural hub that attracts passionate technologists from Ireland, across Europe, and indeed the world. This is testament to the investment, innovative work and great talent the company enjoys in Dublin and highlights the important role the Dublin Tech Hub plays as part of the global business. The new campus-style workplace provides state-of-the-art facilities with positive environmental design principles focused on neuro-diversity, wellbeing and collaboration at its core. Highlights include a rooftop terrace, café, luxurious changing rooms, car parking and wellbeing classes. Mastercard will continue to encourage flexible working and offer above and beyond benefits whilst its people enjoy the new airy and collaborative workplace. Instagram | Facebook | Twitter | YouTube | LinkedIn
Mastercard Launch
There are some skills you can teach. And some you can inspire. Mastercard Launch gives recent graduates both—immersing emerging talent in an 18-month journey where they will challenge the status quo, engage in meaningful and practical sessions, drive Decency and Belonging, our mission to be a Force for Good and be the ultimate catalyst for personal and professional growth. The Launch program is for change makers, those who dare to be greater and who wish to make a real impact on the world. We invite you to bring your passion, share your talent and make the most of this truly Priceless experience.
What it is
A permanent opportunity but dedicated to an 18-month program that educates, inspires personal growth, and builds professional confidence to create a Priceless career with Mastercard. Launch will include development opportunities such as:
- Professional skills learning
- Business-driven rotations or experiences
- Networking and career conversations
What you’ll do
The Technology Strategy and Transformation (TST) team is responsible for defining the Mastercard Technology strategy and driving the program management to deliver it. In addition, the team drives at scale continues improvement across Technology with a focus on “ways of working”, tooling and technology upgrades, telemetry, and financial transparency as well as advanced analytics and AI.
We are looking for passionate people, that want to help ‘connect the dots’ to shape the future of Mastercard as we lead through Technology. We are committed finding the best people for the job and enabling them to do their best work (e.g., hybrid working practices, role specific learning and development and mentorship). Join a rapidly growing team that is shaping what the next decade of Mastercard Technology will look like, and help us drive the execution of our core objectives:
- Define and communicate the Mastercard Technology strategy
- Enable strategy execution through program management, tooling, and technology
- Create financial, operational and performance telemetry to drive continuous improvement
- Leverage advanced analytics and AI to drive insights and enhance decisions
Program Manager
- Support the execution of multiple complex initiatives across geographies, in a coordinated way from inception through successful delivery
- Work across multiple teams (may be cross-cutting across programs, business/engineering teams, and/or technologies or work may be vertically focused on a single program within a domain) to drive technology strategy alignment and partnership against complex objectives
- Proactively mobilizes, orchestrates, and accelerates complex initiatives with dependent organizations to ensure successful execution and completion
- Identify, collect, synthesize and communicate risks and blockers in a concise, accurate, and professional manner for senior leadership to ensure alignment based on evolving priorities
- Regularly define and review key success metrics for data-focused tracking and proactively seek out new and improved mechanisms for visibility ensuring your program stays aligned with organization objectives
What you’ll need
- To be available for start from 4th September 2023
- To be a Final Year Masters/Undergraduate Student or to have graduated no earlier than September 2022
- Studying Finance, Business Administration, Analytics, Information Systems or similar
- Strong interest in technology, especially through a data-driven lens. Interest in the payments industry a plus
- Strong verbal and written communication skills
- Analytical and problem-solving skills
- Strong strategic and conceptual aptitude
- Ability to multi-task and prioritize multiple projects concurrently
- High-energy, can-do attitude, very strong sense of ownership and desire to succeed with commensurate analytical, technical, and strategic skills
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.
