Director, Data Scientist
Lead high-impact data science initiatives at Mastercard, driving Open Finance and AI-led products with production-grade ML solutions, partnering with Product and Engineering teams to balance accuracy, scalability, and business impact.
Skills required
About this role
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
Director, Data ScientistDirector of Data ScienceLead and scale high-impact Data Science initiatives driving Open Finance and AI-led products. Own end-to-end delivery of production-grade ML/LLM solutions, partnering closely with Product and Engineering to balance accuracy, scalability, and business impact.
* Drive strategy and execution of data science solutions across global markets
* Lead, mentor, and grow a high-performing DS team
* Deliver scalable, production-ready models and pipelines
* Align with Product/Engineering on tradeoffs and roadmap priorities
* Communicate outcomes and influence senior stakeholders
Requirements:
* 10+ years in Data Science/ML, strong leadership experience, proven track record delivering production AI/ML systems, deep expertise in modeling and scalable DS platforms.
Preferred:
* NLP expertise (including MPNet), experience with large-scale global models.
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.