Vice President Network Development Jobs in New Rochelle, NY

Our Purpose

Mastercard powers economies and empowers people in 200+ countries and territories worldwide. Together with our customers, we're helping build asustainableeconomy where everyone can prosper. We support a wide range of digital payments choices, making transactionssecure, 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

Senior Vice President, Network ManagementJob Description
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
The SVP, Network Management is responsible for leading and optimizing Mastercard Move's global cross-border network, ensuring industry-leading reach, resiliency, economics, and partner competitiveness. This role owns the strategy, development, and performance of Mastercard's receive-side network ecosystem, including network partners, financial institutions, payment providers, and settlement bank relationships.
Reporting to EVP, Cross Border Services, the incumbent will lead a global team responsible for expanding and strengthening Mastercard's cross-border network capabilities while partnering closely with Product, Treasury, Engineering, Commercialization, Regional teams, and key external partners. The role plays a critical part in enabling Mastercard Move's growth strategy by ensuring the network delivers scale, reliability, regulatory readiness, and commercial value across all corridors worldwide.
Role
The role will include senior direct reports responsible for network strategy, partner management, settlement banking relationships, network expansion, and network performance management.
Key Responsibilities
Own the global receive-side network strategy for Mastercard Move and Cross-Border Services.
Manage, develop, and expand Mastercard's network partner ecosystem, including banks, financial institutions, payment providers, FX partners, and other payout partners.
Build and execute on direct to Scheme connectivity
Drive network reach, resiliency, economics, and competitive positioning across all corridors and markets.
Lead commercial negotiations and relationship management with strategic network partners and settlement banks globally.
Partner with Treasury to optimize settlement bank relationships, support liquidity, settlement, and operational resiliency objectives.
Identify and execute opportunities to expand network coverage, improve partner performance, and reduce costs.
Drive Send issuer-side enablement in partnership with regional teams to support domestic and cross-border growth objectives.
Establish network performance standards, KPIs, governance, and reporting to ensure world-class partner performance.
Partner with Product, Engineering, and Commercialization teams to support new corridor launches, product enhancements, and market expansion initiatives.
Serve as the executive owner for network-related stakeholder relationships across Treasury, Legal, Compliance, Regulatory, and Mastercard Transaction Services.
Ensure the network remains compliant with evolving regulatory, market and security requirements globally.
Represent Mastercard in executive-level discussions with network partners, strategic customers, and industry stakeholders.
Lead and develop a high-performing global organization aligned to Mastercard's values and leadership expectations.
All About You
The successful candidate will be a seasoned executive with deep expertise in cross-border payments, network management, banking partnerships, and financial ecosystems.
The ideal candidate will possess:
Significant leadership experience in payments, banking, fintech, cross-border payments, or account-to-account networks.
Expertise in network partnerships, settlement models, correspondent banking, and regulated financial ecosystems.
Proven success building, managing, and optimizing large-scale partner networks across multiple geographies.
Strong commercial acumen, including experience negotiating complex strategic partnerships.
Executive presence and credibility with senior leaders at banks, fintechs, payment providers, and financial institutions.
Ability to lead through complexity, influence across a global matrix, and develop high-performing distributed teams.
Track record of driving growth, resilience, innovation, and transformation in complex global businesses.Mastercard is a merit-based, inclusive, equal opportunity employer that considers applicants without regard to gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, ethnicity, disabled or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. We hire the most qualified candidate for the role. In the US or Canada, if you require accommodations or assistance to complete the online application process or during the recruitment process, please contact reasonable_accommodation@mastercard.com and identify the type of accommodation or assistance you are requesting. Do not include any medical or health information in this email. The Reasonable Accommodations team will respond to your email promptly.

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.

In line with Mastercard's total compensation philosophy and assuming that the job will be performed in the US, the successful candidate will be offered a competitive base salary and may be eligible for an annual bonus or commissions depending on the role. The base salary offered may vary depending on multiple factors, including but not limited to location, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Mastercard benefits for full time (and certain part time) employees generally include: insurance (including medical, prescription drug, dental, vision, disability, life insurance); flexible spending account and health savings account; paid leaves (including 16 weeks of new parent leave and up to 20 days of bereavement leave); 80 hours of Paid Sick and Safe Time, 25 days of vacation time and 5 personal days, pro-rated based on date of hire; 10 annual paid U.S. observed holidays; 401k with a best-in-class company match; deferred compensation for eligible roles; fitness reimbursement or on-site fitness facilities; eligibility for tuition reimbursement; and many more. Mastercard benefits for interns generally include: 56 hours of Paid Sick and Safe Time; jury duty leave; and on-site fitness facilities in some locations.