Vice President, Learning & Development - Skill Acceleration

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, Learning & Development - Skill Acceleration At Mastercard, the pace of change across technology, AI, and the nature of work requires a fundamentally new approach to how we build, renew, and redeploy skills at scale. The Vice President of Skill Acceleration is a critical enterprise leadership role within Learning & Development, accountable for defining and driving Mastercard’s end to end strategy for accelerating upskilling and reskilling across the employee lifecycle. This role owns the enterprise skill acceleration agenda—from onboarding and early career development through ongoing skill development, AI-driven reskilling, and workforce redeployment. The VP will ensure that learning translates directly into business performance, workforce agility, and internal mobility, enabling Mastercard to continuously evolve its capabilities in line with strategic priorities. The ideal candidate is a proven learning strategist and trusted strategic partner with a strong track record of translating upskilling into measurable business outcomes. They bring a compelling point of view on the future of skills, deep passion for accelerating the pace of learning at scale, and the ability to lead complex, global portfolios in a matrixed organization. This role will report directly to the Chief Learning Officer and lead a global team of experienced learning professionals. This role sits at the intersection of strategy, skills, and the future of work at Mastercard. The VP of Skill Acceleration will play a defining role in ensuring the organization can adapt faster than the pace of change, unlocking the full potential of our people while driving tangible business impact. Key Responsibilities Enterprise Skill Acceleration Strategy • Define and lead a multi-year enterprise strategy for upskilling, reskilling, and skill acceleration that spans onboarding, early career, advanced skill development, and workforce redeployment, with clear alignment to Mastercard’s business strategy and growth priorities • Establish a cohesive, end-to-end skills development ecosystem, ensuring experiences are integrated, persona-centric, and designed to accelerate time-to-impact at each career stage • Bring a strong, forward-looking perspective on how AI, automation, and emerging technologies are reshaping skills, roles, and workforce needs, and translate that insight into actionable learning strategies Business Impact & Strategic Partnership • Serve as a strategic advisor and thought partner to senior business leaders, HR partners, and Talent teams on how skill acceleration can drive productivity, innovation, internal mobility, and business outcomes • Ensure all major initiatives are explicitly tied to business-relevant outcomes, such as speed to proficiency, business performance lift, retention, role readiness, and redeployment effectiveness • Partner closely with stakeholders across HR and the business to enable data-informed reskilling and redeployment pathways across the enterprise Portfolio Leadership & Execution Excellence • Lead the end-to-end portfolio across onboarding, early career development, AI upskilling & reskilling, and advanced skill development, ensuring clarity of ownership, prioritization, and sequencing • Drive disciplined execution—from needs identification and experience design through delivery, adoption, and continuous improvement—while maintaining flexibility as business needs evolve • Oversee the budget and learning a ... (truncated, view full listing at source)