VP of Data & AI Strategy leading innovative AI - driven payment product designs. Championing AI design thinking and facilitating collaboration across Mastercard's diverse product teams.
About the role
- Lead adoption and strategic use of AI across the software development lifecycle as part of the Internal AI Ops team
- Evangelize smart use of AI within engineering teams: inspire, guide, and cultivate responsible usage
- Lead hands-on sessions, demos and peer labs to build technical confidence
- Identify meaningful use cases and lead them from concept to deployment
- Evaluate, master and deploy AI developer tools such as GitHub Copilot, Cursor, Pooside, Windsurf
- Design prompt libraries, use-case templates and integration flows
- Connect tools across the engineering ecosystem (development environments, issue trackers, CI/CD pipelines)
- Monitor tool performance and lead iterative improvements based on impact
- Focus on adoption, tooling and workflow improvement (not model-building or data science)
Requirements
- Experience driving changes in engineering environments using change-management practices (e.g. ADKAR)
- Confidence to lead conversations with developers, product owners, and engineering managers
- Solid background in software-engineering workflows (understanding how code is built, reviewed, tested and shipped)
- Hands-on when helpful in software engineering contexts
- Curiosity and hands-on skills with AI developer tooling and automation
- Systems-thinking mindset and ability to translate developer pain points into AI-enabled solutions
- Bonus: experience in DevEx, automation, building internal dev tools
- Bonus: experience using platforms like VSCode, Jira, or Azure DevOps
Benefits
- Influence how AI is used at scale by hundreds of engineers
- Shape how developer-facing AI tools are used across the SDLC
- Shape engineering guardrails, policy and audit-ready practices for AI-assisted development
- Join a culture of engineering excellence and innovation
- Collaborate with other AI experts and business stakeholders across the company
- Access the latest tooling and share best practices
- Critical Software is a Benefit Corporation
- Equal opportunity workplace with recruitment adjustments available for disabilities or neurodevelopmental conditions
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