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.

Responsibilities

* 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…