Principal AI Strategy, Mastercard

Principal AI Strategy, Mastercard

Company Mastercard
Job title Principal, AI Strategy
Job location New York, United States of America
Type Full Time

Responsibilities:

  • Developing AI-driven strategies to support business value
  • Identifying opportunities for impactful AI, analytics, and automation within the business
  • Quantifying full value-at-stake from AI solutions, incorporating all possible value levers, and detailing the critical dependencies to capture full value
  • Bringing together expertise in AI, data engineering, solution architecture, and relevant business domains to design fit-to-purpose AI solutions to business problems
  • Translating ambitious North Star visions into executable plans, building alignment among relevant executives and business stakeholders on timing and delivery
  • Achieving maximum scale from AI solutions by proactively identifying and addressing barriers to scale and generalizing solutions to multiple applications
  • Enabling rapid and iterative delivery of AI solutions with consistent value creation
  • Partnering with AI and ML engineering leaders to manage versioning, iteration planning, and solution delivery, creating transparency for business stakeholders and proactively mitigating delivery issues
  • Building productive relationships with key business stakeholders to help them co-own the AI solutions, enabling the business to provide feedback and guidance at all stages of development
  • Bringing business expertise and focus on value capture to AI problem-solving during development, helping the team to maximize impact and minimize unnecessary complexity
  • Augmenting our business stakeholders’ teams with AI and change management expertise, helping them to realize maximum value from AI solutions
  • Advancing our innovative operating model for AI teams
  • Leading in interactions with AI and ML engineering teams to develop and codify more effective ways to AI and strategy teams to collaborate
  • Documenting knowledge, creating templates, and authoring playbooks to help the team scale
  • Conducting peer training and authoring thought leadership along with other members of the team to augment the full team’s skills
  • Developing new delivery frameworks and helping the team build new service offerings

Requirements & Skills:

  • 7+ years of experience using data to answer complex business questions and develop practical solutions.
  • Proven track record of influencing cross-functional teams to deliver measurable business impact
  • Experience leading the creation and execution of technology strategies, preferably in the AI, analytics, BI, or automation domains
  • Strong communication, executive presentation, and relationship-building skills
  • Familiarity with large data sets, statistical analyses, machine learning models, and data visualization
  • Intuitive knowledge of core data science concepts, including solution types, trade-offs, complexity and scale constraints, and model evaluation frameworks
  • Hands-on experience with SQL and business intelligence tools preferred
  • Hands-on experience with an analytical scripting language such as Python or R preferred
  • Experience leading quantitative problem-solving with business and analytics stakeholders
  • Understanding of world-leading Agile and technology business management practices
  • Demonstrated ability to balance the delivery of projects against the realities of a budget; and problem-solving, project management, and creative resourcefulness
  • Experience in the payments domain preferred
  • Bachelor’s degree or higher in computer science, engineering, or physical sciences, or equivalent work or education-related experience. A master’s or other advanced degree strongly preferred

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