Director, Exposure Management

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 Director, Exposure Management Mastercard is a global technology company in the payments industry. Our mission is 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. The Director, Exposure Management & Secure Development is responsible for leading Mastercard’s transition from traditional vulnerability management to a modern, risk‑ and exposure‑based security program. This role owns the strategy, execution, and evolution of enterprise exposure management capabilities, spanning vulnerability operations, secure development (SAST/SCA), and risk intelligence, with a focus on prioritization, business impact, and measurable risk reduction. This leader will partner closely with Technology, Product, Engineering, and Risk stakeholders to ensure security findings are translated into actionable insights, aligned remediation priorities, and improved security outcomes across the enterprise. Overview As Mastercard continues to scale its digital platforms and services, managing cyber risk requires more than identifying vulnerabilities — it requires understanding exposure, exploitability, and business impact. The Exposure Management & Secure Development team is accountable for transforming how security risk is identified, contextualized, and addressed across the enterprise. This includes moving away from siloed vulnerability scanning and static reporting toward a unified exposure management model that integrates application, infrastructure, and software supply chain risk. The Director will lead multi‑disciplinary teams responsible for vulnerability operations and secure development practices, while driving modernization across data, tooling, metrics, and engagement models. Role Responsibilities Exposure Management Strategy & Execution Define and own Mastercard’s enterprise exposure management strategy, aligning vulnerability, application, and software supply chain risks into a unified risk view Shift the program from volume‑based vulnerability tracking to risk‑based prioritization grounded in exploitability, asset criticality, and business impact Establish clear ownership models and engagement patterns with technology and engineering teams to drive timely and effective remediation Vulnerability Operations & Secure Development Leadership Lead global teams responsible for vulnerability operations, SAST, and SCA capabilities Ensure consistent, scalable execution of vulnerability discovery, validation, prioritization, and tracking across technology domains Evolve secure development capabilities to better support engineering velocity while improving security outcomes earlier in the SDLC Data, Metrics & Risk Intelligence Build and mature exposure‑focused metrics that enable leadership to understand risk posture, trends, and remediation effectiveness Partner with data and analytics teams to leverage security telemetry, automation, and correlation across multiple data sources Translate technical findings into clear, decision‑ready insights for senior leaders and risk partners Technology & Transformation Drive modernization of exposure management tooling, workflows, and integrations Partner with Product, Engineering, and Architecture teams to in ... (truncated, view full listing at source)