Vice President, Global Debit & APM Partnerships

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Vice President, Global Debit & APM Partnerships

The Global Debit & APM Partnerships team sits within the broader Core Consumer Products and Processing organization and is responsible for all elements of debit product management – including defining and driving a differentiated product line strategy, maintaining debit product integrity, evaluating debit performance, developing insights and thought leadership, and more. Digital wallets and APMs are rapidly gaining traction, now accounting for ~25% of P2M digital payments globally.

While this growth introduces disintermediation risk, it also represents a significant opportunity to expand debit usage. Partnerships with APMs and digital wallets continue to drive debit growth, as debit is well positioned to unlock new use cases and address key APM pain points across funding and acceptance—leveraging our broad issuing and acceptance footprint. The APM Partnerships team defines, builds, and scales Mastercard’s partnerships with alternative payment methods (APMs), digital wallets, and account-to-account (A2A) ecosystem players globally to defend and grow debit relevance, and unlock incremental transaction flows across the evolving payments landscape.

Working closely with regional and global product teams, acceptance, digital, and commercial partners, the team translates strategic partnerships into measurable commercial outcomes.

The Vice President, Global Debit & APM Partnerships is a leadership role responsible for shaping and advancing Mastercard’s global strategy for digital wallets and alternative payment methods. The role reports to the Senior Vice President, Global Debit & APM Partnerships and works closely with Core Consumer Product/Digital/Acceptance leads, Regional Product/Core teams, Customer Solutioning Centres, Market Development, and Country/Account Managers. The VP leads a team focused on APM/wallet partnerships and new solutions tailored for APM partnerships ensuring clear strategic direction, disciplined execution, and alignment with Mastercard’s debit defense/growth and commercialization priorities, particularly in markets where A2A solutions are gaining traction.

The role balances near‑term delivery of pipeline and commercialization initiatives with longer‑term strategic positioning to future‑prove Mastercard’s core business.

• Define and own Mastercard’s global APM and wallet strategy, aligning priorities to debit defense and growth, enabling the shift toward wallet‑led P2M transactions, and reinforcing Mastercard’s role as a scalable network enabler across diverse payment ecosystems.
• Drive execution of the global APM partnership pipeline, working closely with regional product and market teams to identify high‑impact opportunities, structure partnership models, remove execution blockers, and accelerate commercialization across priority markets.
• Lead product strategy, construct, and commercialization of strategic initiatives, ensuring alignment between product design, pricing frameworks, and go‑to‑market enablement to support scalable deployment across markets with strong wallet and A2A adoption.
• Provide senior leadership across cross‑functional solution development, aligning Product, Acceptance, Digital, Processing, Marketing, Advisors, and regional stakeholders to deliver coherent value propositions.
• Oversee partnership performance management and KPI tracking, collaborating with Sales Excellence and Global Data Analytics to develop structured performance views (e.g., transactions, GDV, and revenue lens) that inform prioritization, pipeline development, and strategic decision making.
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