Senior Specialist, Business Expansion & 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 Senior Specialist, Business Expansion & Transformation Services within Mastercard is responsible for acquiring, engaging, and retaining customers by managing fraud and risk, enhancing cybersecurity, and improving the digital payments experience. We provide value-added services and leverage expertise, data-driven insights, and execution. Business Expansion & Transformation (BET) is a new team within Business & Market Insights (B&MI), charged with bridging B&MI’s current growth momentum with its 2030 growth ambition. BET does this by defining the strategic aperture for where the enterprise should source and originate new growth opportunities, identifying and interpreting internal and external signals, and translating those signals into tangible, investable opportunities. BET owns the front end of the growth lifecycle—from opportunity sourcing and origination through evaluation, portfolio construction, and graduation into development. This includes standing up new business verticals—products outside existing portfolios with use cases spanning multiple portfolios—as well as foundational capabilities that strengthen the current portfolio and create pathways to businesses the company could not otherwise build. BET acts as the accountable end-to-end steward, first building and owning the opportunity pipeline, then coordinating product, technology, and go-to-market partners to advance initiatives from early concept to scale.

The Senior Specialist, Business Expansion & Transformation plays a critical role supporting the Vice President in building, operating, and scaling BET’s opportunity pipeline—sourcing high-potential new businesses and transformative technologies. This role is highly executional and exposure-rich, sitting at the intersection of strategy, analytics, technology, and stakeholder coordination in a first-of-its-kind team at Mastercard. The individual will operationalize our stakeholder network for idea generation and GTM and act as a day-to-day liaison across internal and external stakeholders. The individual will also support due diligence work streams and the prioritization, governance, and tooling that underpin BET’s opportunity engine. The role is ideal for a high-potential professional with strong analytical rigor, structured thinking, and an interest in how new businesses are discovered, validated, and built inside a complex global enterprise. The Role •Develop clear, insight-driven opportunity narratives and decision frameworks that synthesize analysis, assumptions, risks, and tradeoffs into executive-ready briefs, diligence readouts, and multi-scenario business cases to support VP- and SVP-level investment decisions. •Act as the day-to-day liaison and central point of coordination between Business Expansion & Transformation and cross-functional internal partners (Technology, Product, Finance, Legal, Privacy, Foundry, GTM), as well as select external stakeholders, ensuring alignment, momentum, and transparency. •Translate strategic and operational needs into clear requirements for data products, analytics, automation, and tooling, ensuring business objectives are effectively converted into scalable technical solutions. •Prepare concise, executive-ready reporting materials—including dashboards, progress updates, and narrative summaries—that clearly communicate insights, implications, and recommendations to senior leadership. •Support the operation and