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
Intern, Technical Program Management
Our Purpose
We work to connect and power an inclusive, digital economy that benefits everyone, everywhere by making transactions safe, simple, smart and accessible. Using secure data and networks, partnerships and passion, our innovations and solutions help individuals, financial institutions, governments and businesses realize their greatest potential. Our decency quotient, or DQ, drives our culture and everything we do inside and outside of our company. We cultivate a culture of inclusion for all employees that respects their individual strengths, views, and experiences. We believe that our differences enable us to be a better team - one that makes better decisions, drives innovation and delivers better business results.
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Interns hired in our Technical Program Management or Program Management functions will be aligned to organizations across Mastercard Technology. Team placement opportunities may include Payment Networks, Technology Cyber & Intelligence, Technology Strategy & Transformation, or Operations, Network, and Employee Digital Experience (ONE).
Internship Program
The Mastercard Internship Program offers penultimate year students an immersive experience to challenge the status quo, gain real work-life skills in a global company, drive decency and belonging, and grow their personal and professional development. We invite you to bring your passion, share your talent, and make the most of this truly priceless experience.
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.
What you'll need
- Currently enrolled in a bachelor's degree program majoring in Computer Science or a related field with a graduation date of December 2025 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 (scrum, Kanban, etc.) a plus
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.