Provides executive-level cybersecurity advisory and thought leadership to enterprise customers across Europe. Advises CISOs, CIOs, boards, and other senior stakeholders on cyber resilience, fraud, digital trust, risk management, and emerging technologies. Leads strategic customer engagements, influences product and engineering roadmaps, supports complex sales opportunities, develops industry content, represents Mastercard externally, and drives alignment across security, product, engineering, sales, and services teams.
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
Vice President, Field CISO Commercial, Europe
Our Purpose
We connect and power an inclusive, digital economy that benefits everyone, everywhere by making transactions safe, simple, smart, and accessible. Our security, data, and innovation capabilities enable trust across the global ecosystem.
Role Overview
Mastercard is seeking a Vice President, Field CISO, Commercial, for Europe to join a global team of senior security advisors responsible for deep customer engagement, executive influence, and cybersecurity thought leadership.
This role operates as a frontline interface to the world's leading CISOs, shaping strategic partnerships and positioning Mastercard as the trusted authority in cyber resilience, fraud, and digital trust.
This position is focused on supporting Security Solution's Europe Region and driving cybersecurity thought leadership, client engagement, and business growth across the region.
Key Responsibilities
Role• Serve as a trusted advisor to senior customer executives, including CISOs, CIOs, CROs, and Boards.• Provide strategic guidance on cybersecurity, cyber resilience, fraud, digital trust, risk management, and emerging technologies.• Translate complex security concepts into business outcomes, risk reduction, and competitive advantage.• Lead executive briefings, advisory sessions, and strategic customer engagements.• Strengthen executive relationships and position Mastercard as a strategic cybersecurity partner.• Capture customer insights and market trends to influence product, engineering, and innovation roadmaps.• Partner with Product and Engineering teams to ensure solutions align with evolving enterprise security needs.• Identify emerging market opportunities, customer requirements, and security challenges.• Partner with Sales, Product, and Services teams to support strategic customer opportunities.• Help articulate the business value of Mastercard cybersecurity solutions.• Contribute to revenue growth, customer retention, and executive customer satisfaction.• Represent Mastercard at industry conferences, executive forums, customer events, and CISO communities.• Develop executive-level content, including presentations, white papers, blogs, and market perspectives.• Serve as a spokesperson for Mastercard's cybersecurity vision and strategy.• Advise Mastercard leaders on industry trends, cyber threats, competitive dynamics, and emerging risks.• Drive executive-level alignment across Security, Product, Engineering, Sales, and Services.• Help scale and mature Mastercard's Field CISO capability globally.
All About You• Leadership experience in cybersecurity, information security, technology risk, or related fields.• Experience as a CISO, Deputy CISO, Chief Security Officer, or equivalent senior cybersecurity leader.• Proven ability to advise executive stakeholders on cybersecurity strategy, risk, resilience, and transformation.• Experience working directly with large enterprise customers and executive-level decision makers.• Background in financial services, payments, technology, healthcare, critical infrastructure, or other highly regulated industries preferred.• Strong executive presence with the ability to influence C-suite and Board-level stakeholders.• Exceptional communication skills with the ability to simplify complex technical concepts.• Proven ability to lead through influence in a global, matrixed organization.• Deep knowledge of cybersecurity strategy, risk management, threat detection and response, cloud security, identity and Zero Trust, privacy, fraud, digital trust, cyber resilience, AI security, and regulatory frameworks.• Strong understanding of the evolving cybersecurity, fraud, and digital trust landscape.• Ability to connect cybersecurity initiatives to business growth, customer value, and risk reduction.• Experience supporting strategic customer relationships and complex enterprise opportunities.• Strong understanding of enterprise buying processes and executive decision-making.• Recognized industry leader with experience speaking at conferences, executive forums, or customer events.• Strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to develop compelling executive narratives.
Preferred Qualifications• CISSP, CISM, CRISC, or similar industry certification.• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Cybersecurity, Computer Science, Engineering, Business, or related field.• MBA or advanced business degree preferred.• Established network within the cybersecurity and CISO community.• Experience participating in Board-level cybersecurity discussions.• Ability to travel up to 50%.
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:
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
Vice President, Field CISO Commercial, Europe
Our Purpose
We connect and power an inclusive, digital economy that benefits everyone, everywhere by making transactions safe, simple, smart, and accessible. Our security, data, and innovation capabilities enable trust across the global ecosystem.
Role Overview
Mastercard is seeking a Vice President, Field CISO, Commercial, for Europe to join a global team of senior security advisors responsible for deep customer engagement, executive influence, and cybersecurity thought leadership.
This role operates as a frontline interface to the world's leading CISOs, shaping strategic partnerships and positioning Mastercard as the trusted authority in cyber resilience, fraud, and digital trust.
This position is focused on supporting Security Solution's Europe Region and driving cybersecurity thought leadership, client engagement, and business growth across the region.
Key Responsibilities
Role• Serve as a trusted advisor to senior customer executives, including CISOs, CIOs, CROs, and Boards.• Provide strategic guidance on cybersecurity, cyber resilience, fraud, digital trust, risk management, and emerging technologies.• Translate complex security concepts into business outcomes, risk reduction, and competitive advantage.• Lead executive briefings, advisory sessions, and strategic customer engagements.• Strengthen executive relationships and position Mastercard as a strategic cybersecurity partner.• Capture customer insights and market trends to influence product, engineering, and innovation roadmaps.• Partner with Product and Engineering teams to ensure solutions align with evolving enterprise security needs.• Identify emerging market opportunities, customer requirements, and security challenges.• Partner with Sales, Product, and Services teams to support strategic customer opportunities.• Help articulate the business value of Mastercard cybersecurity solutions.• Contribute to revenue growth, customer retention, and executive customer satisfaction.• Represent Mastercard at industry conferences, executive forums, customer events, and CISO communities.• Develop executive-level content, including presentations, white papers, blogs, and market perspectives.• Serve as a spokesperson for Mastercard's cybersecurity vision and strategy.• Advise Mastercard leaders on industry trends, cyber threats, competitive dynamics, and emerging risks.• Drive executive-level alignment across Security, Product, Engineering, Sales, and Services.• Help scale and mature Mastercard's Field CISO capability globally.
All About You• Leadership experience in cybersecurity, information security, technology risk, or related fields.• Experience as a CISO, Deputy CISO, Chief Security Officer, or equivalent senior cybersecurity leader.• Proven ability to advise executive stakeholders on cybersecurity strategy, risk, resilience, and transformation.• Experience working directly with large enterprise customers and executive-level decision makers.• Background in financial services, payments, technology, healthcare, critical infrastructure, or other highly regulated industries preferred.• Strong executive presence with the ability to influence C-suite and Board-level stakeholders.• Exceptional communication skills with the ability to simplify complex technical concepts.• Proven ability to lead through influence in a global, matrixed organization.• Deep knowledge of cybersecurity strategy, risk management, threat detection and response, cloud security, identity and Zero Trust, privacy, fraud, digital trust, cyber resilience, AI security, and regulatory frameworks.• Strong understanding of the evolving cybersecurity, fraud, and digital trust landscape.• Ability to connect cybersecurity initiatives to business growth, customer value, and risk reduction.• Experience supporting strategic customer relationships and complex enterprise opportunities.• Strong understanding of enterprise buying processes and executive decision-making.• Recognized industry leader with experience speaking at conferences, executive forums, or customer events.• Strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to develop compelling executive narratives.
Preferred Qualifications• CISSP, CISM, CRISC, or similar industry certification.• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Cybersecurity, Computer Science, Engineering, Business, or related field.• MBA or advanced business degree preferred.• Established network within the cybersecurity and CISO community.• Experience participating in Board-level cybersecurity discussions.• Ability to travel up to 50%.
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.
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