Vice President, Product Management, Stablecoins and Open Standard

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 Vice President, Product Management, Stablecoins and Open Standard Overview Mastercard's Blockchain and Digital Assets group drives Mastercard’s business and product strategy in the digital currency payment space. The team is at the heart of making Mastercard the trusted access layer that lets regulated institutions and their customers enable real-time payments and smart money movement through stablecoins, tokenized deposits and other forms of tokenized value. We are looking for a Vice President, Product Management to lead the design, development, and implementation of innovative blockchain and digital asset solutions, with a primary focus on onboarding, enabling and operationalizing various stablecoins, including Open Standard, onto Mastercard’s suite of products through direct relationships and integrations with stablecoin issuers. The role has global responsibilities and supports the execution of Mastercard's broader crypto and blockchain product roadmap. The ideal candidate is a strong leader and people manager who combines deep payments expertise with strong product development, partnership management, commercialization, and business leadership experience. The candidate should possess a proven ability to bring innovative products from concept to market, build strategic ecosystem relationships, negotiate complex commercial arrangements, and drive adoption at scale, while maintaining a genuine passion for the digital asset space. Role • Lead Mastercard's strategic relationship with Open Standard and its member ecosystem, serving as a senior commercial, product, and governance representative to drive alignment on product strategy, ecosystem growth, operating models, and long-term network objectives. • Represent Mastercard in Open Standard governance and strategic decision-making, helping shape product roadmap, commercialization models, operating frameworks, and market expansion initiatives while ensuring alignment with Mastercard's strategic, regulatory, and network objectives. • Lead the development and commercialization of Mastercard's wholesale on- and off-ramp capabilities, enabling regulated financial institutions and Open Standard participants to efficiently mint, redeem, custody, and move tokenized money between fiat and blockchain-based networks at scale. • Drive strategic partnerships with stablecoin issuers, financial institutions, fintechs, infrastructure providers, and other ecosystem participants to expand Mastercard's stablecoin capabilities, accelerate market adoption, and create mutually beneficial commercial outcomes. • Lead negotiations with Stablecoin Issuers and issuers of other tokenized forms of money globally to ensure alignment, commercial viability and enablement of existing and new Mastercard products and services such as remittances, payouts, and B2B payments. • Drive the successful adoption, growth, and commercialization of Open Standard and other compliant stablecoins across Mastercard products and services by identifying new use cases, distribution opportunities, customer segments, and ecosystem partnerships. • Lead product and business engagements with third-party and distributed blockchains to facilitate payment product enablement and mutually beneficial business outcomes. • Develop innovative solution concepts that have strategic fit and value for Mastercard's customers and partners, including ideation, definition, design, and development of