Vice President, AI, Center of Excellence

Mastercard

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Location
San Francisco, CANew York, NYBoston, MAAtlanta, GAMiami, FLSeattle, WAPurchase, NYO'Fallon, MO
Salary
$254,000–$407,000 / yr
Posted
1 day ago
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About Mastercard

Mastercard is a global technology company in the payments industry, processing transactions between financial institutions and merchants using its extensive network of credit, debit, and prepaid card products. Industry: Payments Technology & Financial Services

Mastercard currently has 152 open roles on FindRole.

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TL;DR · Vice President, AI, Center of Excellence

JOB TITLE: Vice President- AI, Center of Excellence The Vice President- AI, Center of Excellence joins the AI Center of Excellence to lead a global AI Engineering organization. This people manager role focuses on moving AI from experimentation to production-grade, reusable products and capabilities. The successful candidate will lead end-to-end engineering delivery, building and scaling reusable assets, agent patterns, multi-agent orchestration, and workflow automation. Key responsibilities include ensuring production readiness, reliability, and observability while embedding Responsible AI, security, and governance. The role requires deep technical knowledge of agentic AI, generative AI, large language models, and hybrid cloud or cloud-native architectures. The position solves the business problem of translating priorities into scalable enterprise AI solutions, ensuring that new capabilities are secure, compliant, and deliver measurable business value within a highly regulated environment.

What you'll do

  • Lead end-to-end AI engineering delivery from initial solution design through production deployment and value realization.
  • Build and scale reusable AI assets, agent patterns, multi-agent orchestration, and workflow automation.
  • Translate business priorities into production-grade AI solutions that deliver measurable business value.
  • Own production readiness including reliability, resiliency, observability, scalability, and lifecycle management.
  • Embed Responsible AI, security, privacy, governance, and compliance throughout the AI engineering lifecycle.
  • Drive adoption and measure product performance, customer impact, and risk reduction.
  • Lead and develop a global organization of AI engineering leaders, architects, and engineers.

What we're looking for

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Data Science, Information Systems, or a related field required.
  • Master’s degree preferred.
  • Years of leadership experience in AI engineering, software or product engineering, or enterprise technology delivery.
  • Proven success delivering and scaling enterprise AI products, agentic AI applications, intelligent automation, or mission-critical digital platforms.
  • Strong technical understanding of agentic AI, generative AI, LLMs, multi-agent orchestration, and workflow automation.
  • Experience with hybrid cloud and cloud-native architectures, distributed systems, APIs, and enterprise integration.
  • Experience leading production technology in highly regulated environments with accountability for security, resiliency, governance, and compliance.
  • Proven people leadership experience leading global engineering organizations and coaching talent.

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