This role is not eligible for Mastercard’s work authorization sponsorship. As such, candidates must be eligible to work in the United States, now as well as in the future, without employer sponsorship. For example, students or recent graduates in the United States on an F1 visa (including those with CPT or OPT authorization) are not eligible for this role.

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Overview

Mastercard works to connect and power a sustainable and inclusive global economy. We are a vehicle for commerce, a connection to financial systems for the previously excluded, a technology innovation lab, and the home of Priceless®. We ensure every employee has opportunity to be a part of something bigger and to change lives. We believe in connecting everyone to endless, priceless possibilities.

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About the Team

As a Technical Program Management Intern at Mastercard, you’ll learn to understand the what, how, and why to determine the when – and operate across tools (and outside of them) to drive the execution of the delivery plan for your respective program. Across our organization, we strive for higher predictability and more efficient delivery resulting in more value for our customers. If you’re passionate about planning, delivery, and continuous improvement – we’re looking for you!

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Interns hired in our Technical Program Management functions will be aligned to organizations across Mastercard Technology. Team placement opportunities may include Technology Strategy & Transformation, Network Gateway Engineering, Decision Management Platform, Open Banking Global Operations, Mainframe and Operations, and Global Market Technology

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Internship Program

Mastercard’s summer internship program provides emerging talent with projects that will enhance skills as well as contribute to the department’s goals and objectives. In this program, you will participate in:

- Networking events, mentorship opportunities, and hear from senior leaders

- Volunteer and team building opportunities

- Formal performance assessments- End-of-summer presentations to peers and Mastercard leadership

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Role

Description

Our Technical Program Managers conceptualize, rationalize, and drive multiple simultaneous projects to deliver engineering work across the portfolio in our scrum execution model. In this role, you get to dive as deep as you want into the tech stack, the integration patterns, the organizational capabilities, and the company wide assets that can be leveraged to provide technical solutions to customer problems. You may contribute to the strategies, design choices, and even the cloud infrastructure necessary to build comprehensive believable and achievable execution plans to deliver high-profile new features and capabilities for our customers. You may drive the execution of a feature through the full stack or may drive a project which spans multiple teams and integrations, reporting meaningful status along the way. 

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Qualifications

- Currently enrolled in a bachelor’s degree program majoring in Computer Science or a related field with a graduation date of December 2026 or beyond

- Ideally studying engineering management, information systems, finance, analytics, business, or a related field

- Demonstrated ability to operate with independence, autonomy, solid ownership, and a continuous improvement mindset

- Proven track record of data driven decision

-making and applying continuous improvement methodologies across teams

 - Can communicate with impact, build relationships, and partner/influence dependent teams while commanding the respect of the individuals you work with across the organization

- Strong interest in technology, especially through a data-driven lens

- Experience breaking down problems, organizing work, planning sprints, and delivering work in agile delivery models (Jira, scrum, Kanban, etc.) a plus

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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.