Vice President, Token Authentication Solutions

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, Token Authentication Solutions

Overview
Mastercard Checkout Services team is building the future of digital commerce by making online payments more secure, seamless, and trusted. Tokenization and authentication are strategic pillars of that vision across all digital payment use cases, such as card on file checkout, guest checkout, and Agentic commerce.
We are looking for a visionary and execution-focused Vice President, Token Authentication Solutions to lead the development and deployment of Mastercard's suite of authentication methods enabled on tokenized transactions, such as payment passkeys and enhanced data sharing.
This leader will be responsible for managing the token authentication framework and enhancing the token authentication service that allows merchants to access secure and seamless token authentication solutions. The successful candidate will operate at the intersection of product strategy, product development, issuer and merchant partnerships, standardization and integration of emerging authentication technologies such as Digital Payment Credentials.
This leadership role requires strong business acumen, product leadership, ecosystem influence, and the ability to develop and deploy innovative products.
Role
• Lead Mastercard’s Token Authentication Solutions domain within Checkout Services, shaping the vision, strategy, and execution roadmap for authentication capabilities on tokenized transactions.
• Own the evolution of the token authentication framework and related services that enable merchants, issuers, and ecosystem partners to deliver secure, seamless, and trusted digital payment experiences.
• Drive product development and deployment of authentication methods such as payment passkeys, enhanced data sharing, and emerging capabilities aligned to Digital Payment Credentials.
• Partner across Mastercard and the broader payments ecosystem to influence issuers, merchants, processors, technology partners, wallet providers, and standards bodies.
• Balance long-term innovation with near-term business impact, scaling the deployment of authentication solutions while ensuring Mastercard continues to lead the payment industry.
Key Responsibilities
• Lead the definition and execution of token authentication solutions, including business cases, investment priorities, product roadmap, and executive stakeholder alignment.
• Prioritize and scale authentication solutions such as payment passkeys, enhanced data sharing, Digital Payment Credentials, and emerging authentication methods across tokenized transactions, including card-on-file, guest checkout, and agentic commerce.
• Lead the evolution of the token authentication framework, B2B services for acceptance partners and issuers to enable the token authentication solutions, and B2C passkey service.
• Partner across product, engineering, regional, commercial, legal, and operations teams to translate strategy into requirements, analyze new use cases, develop scalable solutions, enable market adoption, and support global acceptance partners and issuers implementing our products.
• Represent Mastercard externally with customers, partners, industry bodies, and standards organizations such as FIDO and W3C.
• Build, lead, and develop a high-performing product organization with strong ownership, customer focus, technical fluency, disciplined execution, and inclusive collaboration.
All about you
• Senior product leadership experience in digital payments, authentication, identity, tokenization, or adjacent technology-led sectors.
• Strong track record of defining product strategy and translating vision into business growth, adoption, product scale, and measurable outcomes.
• Deep understanding of tokenized transactions, authentication flows, and Mastercard ecosystem.
• 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.

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 [email protected] 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.

Pay Ranges

New York City, New York: $245,000 - $391,000 USD