Vice President- AI, Center of Excellence
Mastercard•Boston, MA
•$212,000 - $407,000•Remote
About The Position
The AI Center of Excellence is seeking a Vice President, AI Engineering - AI CoE to lead the delivery and scale of enterprise AI products, agentic AI solutions, and new and evolving AI capabilities across Mastercard. This is a people manager role leading a global AI Engineering organization responsible for moving AI from experimentation to production-grade, reusable products and capabilities. The Vice President will focus on AI engineering delivery and execution, translating business priorities into AI solutions, shared capabilities, and measurable outcomes while ensuring security, reliability, governance, and operational excellence.
Requirements
- Years of leadership experience in AI engineering, software or product engineering, or enterprise technology delivery.
- Proven success delivering and scaling enterprise AI products, agentic AI applications, intelligent automation, or mission-critical digital platforms.
- Strong technical understanding of agentic AI, generative AI, large language models (LLMs), multi-agent orchestration, workflow automation, and new and evolving AI capabilities.
- Experience with hybrid cloud and cloud-native architectures, distributed systems, APIs, enterprise integration, and modern AI engineering.
- Experience leading production technology in highly regulated environments with accountability for security, resiliency, governance, compliance, and risk.
- Demonstrated ability to drive complex, cross-functional engineering delivery and execution at enterprise scale.
- Proven people leadership experience, including leading leaders, building high-performing global engineering organizations, coaching and developing talent, and driving accountability.
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Data Science, Information Systems, or a related field required.
Nice To Haves
- master’s degree preferred.
Responsibilities
- Lead end-to-end AI engineering delivery from solution design through development, production deployment, adoption, and value realization.
- Build and scale reusable AI assets, agent patterns, multi-agent orchestration, workflow automation, shared components, and new and evolving AI capabilities that accelerate delivery and reduce duplication.
- Drive execution against prioritized business needs, ensuring AI initiatives deliver measurable business value.
- Partner across AI Platform Engineering, Infrastructure, Data, Security, Architecture, Risk, Product, and business teams to deliver secure, scalable enterprise AI solutions.
- Own production readiness, including reliability, resiliency, observability, scalability, lifecycle management, and operational performance.
- Embed Responsible AI, security, privacy, governance, compliance, and auditability throughout the AI engineering lifecycle.
- Drive adoption and measure product performance, customer impact, productivity, risk reduction, and business outcomes.
- Lead and develop a global organization of AI engineering leaders, architects, and AI engineers, building talent, accountability, and engineering excellence.
Benefits
- insurance (including medical, prescription drug, dental, vision, disability, life insurance)
- flexible spending account and health savings account
- 16 weeks of new parent leave
- up to 20 days of bereavement leave
- 80 hours of Paid Sick and Safe Time
- 25 days of vacation time
- 5 personal days
- 10 annual paid U.S. observed holidays
- 401k with a best-in-class company match
- deferred compensation for eligible roles
- fitness reimbursement or on-site fitness facilities
- eligibility for tuition reimbursement
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Executive
