Vice President of Applied Artificial Intelligence, Mastercard
Office located in Stratford, London
Global payments technology company
Open for applications
Global payments technology company
1001+ employees
Open for applications
Office located in Stratford, London
1001+ employees
Company mission
To connect and power an inclusive, digital economy that benefits everyone, everywhere by making transactions safe, simple, smart, and accessible.
Role
Who you are
- 10+ years of experience in AI with at least 3 in leadership
- Ability to define target state technology architecture and roadmaps
- Deep expertise in the latest LLM technology (GPT, Bedrock, Mistral, LLaMa, Huggingface, etc) and associated enabling technologies (RAG, vector databases, unstructured data processing)
- Deep expertise in cloud computing environments, cloud native tools, end-to-end ML pipelines in the could, and GPU-enables systems
- Extensive hands-on experience in Python, R, and CUDA
- Experience with big data platforms such as Redshift, Snowflake and Hadoop
- Extensive expertise in statistical modeling, machine learning algorithms, and predictive analytics
- Strong knowledge of data structures, algorithms, and software engineering principles
- Demonstrated ability to balance the delivery of projects against the realities of a budget; and problem solving, project management and creative resourcefulness
- Experience in the payments domain preferred
- Master's degree or higher in computer science, analytics, mathematics, statistics, economics, industrial engineering, or physical sciences
What the job involves
- Reporting to the Senior Vice President of Applied AI Technology and working with the Mastercard Applied AI team, the VP is responsible for leading a global team of data scientists developing of AI solutions that leverage Mastercard’s unique capabilities in the payments industry
- This role is responsible for value creation from data science by (a) by leading a team of data scientists, (b) leading technical best practices and pushing adoption of new technologies, and (c) designing systems to deliver new capabilities at scale
- 1) Leading a team of data scientists:
- Recruit, hire, and train distinctive data science talent with a focus on Gen AI
- Serve as a senior technical leader on the team, guiding individual contributors in their development of data science solutions
- Continuously raise the bar on the capabilities and impact of our data science solutions
- Manage a globally distributed and multi-layered data science organization to deliver at speed
- Define and enforce development practices to promote effective collaboration in Mastercard’s cross-functional AI delivery teams
- 2) Leading technical best practices and pushing adoption of new technologies
- Provide expertise and raise the bar on the team’s technical solutioning to ensure scalable and accurate data science solutions
- Help the team to leverage cutting edge technologies such as LLMs, RAG, multi-modal bots, and federated learning to solve problems at Mastercard
- Rapidly and iteratively develop new solutions to prove AI value
- Develop partnerships with academic institutions and other firms to enrich Mastercard’s own data and capabilities
- Stay abreast of the latest advancements in data science, continually applying new techniques to enhance analytical capabilities
- 3/ Designing systems to deliver new capabilities at scale
- Direct the design and implementation of models in production, including multiple consumption methods, retraining, tuning, label feedback, and exception monitoring
- Collaborate with AI strategists and AI architects to optimize the capabilities of Mastercard’s AI platforms
- Align model design and management to Mastercard constraints concerning cloud vs. on-prem, data security, data localization, and responsible AI
Salary benchmarks
Our take
Mastercard is in the global payments business, and operates the world's fastest payments processing network. Its products and solutions have become central to everyday commerce across the world, in activities ranging from shopping and travelling to running businesses.
As the economy has become more and more digitised, Mastercard has been a leading player in helping businesses and individuals across the globe embrace card payments and digital banking. One of the world's largest companies, its revenue has seen consistent gain in the last 20 years.
The challenge for modern payments companies is that payments are always changing, as seen in the astronomical rise of contactless payments over the last decade. Mastercard's acquisition of blockchain systems, and an overall focus on leveraging its technology towards a digital economy, has placed the company in good stead to keep up to date with current trends, like cryptocurrency, in the digitised payments world.
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Company benefits
- Gym membership
- Share purchase options
- Extra holiday purchase optional
- Work from home opportunities
- Health insurance
- Pension plan
- 25 days holiday (excl. bank holidays)
Company values
- Trust - integrity, respect, openness
- Agility - urgency and value through innovation
- Partnership - working as one team for the benefit of all
- Initiative - taking bold and thoughtful actions
Company HQ
Purchase, Harrison, NY
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Founders
Michael Miebach
(CEO, not founder)Has served in a variety of roles at the company, including President and CPO. Currently Board Member at IBM, Accion, the World Resources Institute, the US-India Strategic Partnership Forum, and the Metropolitan Opera. They are also a Trustee of USCIB.
People progressing
Joined as VP in 2008, promoted 4 times in 11 years to their current position of Executive Vice President.
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