Vice President of Token Authentication Solutions

Join Mastercard's Checkout Services team as the Vice President of Token Authentication Solutions. In this leadership role, you will shape the vision, strategy, and execution roadmap for authentication capabilities on tokenized transactions. You will drive product development and deployment of authentication methods, partner across the Mastercard ecosystem, and represent Mastercard externally. The ideal candidate will have a strong track record in product strategy, digital payments, and authentication technologies.

• Lead the development and deployment of Mastercard's suite of authentication methods enabled on tokenized transactions, such as payment passkeys and enhanced data sharing.
• Manage the token authentication framework and enhance the token authentication service that allows merchants to access secure and seamless token authentication solutions.
• Drive product development and deployment of authentication methods such as payment passkeys, enhanced data sharing, and emerging capabilities aligned to Digital Payment Credentials.

• Strong track record of defining product strategy and translating vision into business growth, adoption, product scale, and measurable outcomes
• Demonstrated ability to partner effectively with engineering leadership to build scalable, resilient, and efficient platforms, services, and delivery models
• Experience with digital commerce products, APIs, developer ecosystems, customer-facing solutions, and implementation models that support adoption at scale
• Strong people leadership skills, with a record of building, developing, and retaining high-performing teams across geographies and functions
• Deep understanding of tokenized transactions, authentication flows, and Mastercard ecosystem
• Senior product leadership experience in digital payments, authentication, identity, tokenization, or adjacent technology-led sectors