Lead Technical Program Manager - 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 Lead Technical Program Manager - Business Expansion and Transformation Lead Technical Program Manager (L6) -Business Expansion & Transformation (BET) Overview Business Expansion & Transformation (BET) is a strategic growth function within Business & Market Insights (B&MI) focused on identifying, evaluating, and scaling disruptive opportunities that extend beyond existing product portfolios and business lines. BET partners across Product, Engineering, Foundry, Data & AI, Strategy, and external ecosystems to transform innovative ideas into validated businesses, capabilities, and growth platforms. The team operates at the front end of the growth lifecycle, defining opportunity spaces, sourcing and qualifying new ideas, conducting evaluation and due diligence, and driving opportunities through structured incubation and experimentation processes before transitioning validated initiatives into long-term ownership models. Technical Program Managers at Mastercard collaborate to define the how and when of strategic outcomes. Within BET, this role serves as the operational backbone for innovation and incubation initiatives, helping transform ambiguous ideas into executable programs while establishing governance, transparency, and delivery discipline across a growing portfolio of opportunities. ________________________________________ About the Role Operate with a high degree of independence to bring structure, clarity, and execution discipline to highly ambiguous opportunity spaces. Lead cross-functional initiatives through BET's innovation lifecycle, coordinating activities spanning opportunity sourcing, evaluation, concept development, prototyping, market testing, and commercialization readiness. Partner with BET leadership, Foundry, Product, Engineering, Data & AI, and business stakeholders to: • Drive opportunity intake, evaluation, and prioritization processes. • Establish and manage stage-gate governance across BET initiatives. • Coordinate opportunity framing, due diligence, and concept development activities. • Build transparency into portfolio status, risks, dependencies, decisions, and outcomes. • Ensure initiatives progress efficiently through the BET operating model. • Drive alignment across stakeholders with differing objectives, priorities, and ownership models. • Develop and maintain program artifacts, executive reporting, and portfolio dashboards. • Manage initiative-level planning, resource coordination, and operational readiness activities. • Support commercialization planning and transition of validated opportunities into permanent B&MI teams and business structures. • Continuously improve operational processes, governance models, tools, and ways of working used across the BET portfolio.

Portfolio & Program Leadership • Manage a portfolio of strategic innovation initiatives at varying stages of maturity. • Coordinate activities across multiple concurrent workstreams with significant organizational complexity. • Develop execution plans, operating cadences, and governance structures for emerging opportunities. • Drive accountability for milestones, decisions, risks, and dependencies. Innovation Lifecycle Management • Support sourcing, intake, and evaluation of new opportunities. • Drive progression of initiatives through BET's structured stage-gate process. • Facilitate opportunity reviews, prioritization sessions, and executive decision