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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.
Job Responsibility:
Define and lead a multi-year enterprise strategy for upskilling, reskilling, and skill acceleration
Establish a cohesive, end-to-end skills development ecosystem
Bring a strong, forward-looking perspective on how AI, automation, and emerging technologies are reshaping skills
Serve as a strategic advisor and thought partner to senior business leaders, HR partners, and Talent teams
Ensure all major initiatives are explicitly tied to business-relevant outcomes
Partner closely with stakeholders across HR and the business to enable data-informed reskilling and redeployment pathways
Lead the end-to-end portfolio across onboarding, early career development, AI upskilling & reskilling, and advanced skill development
Drive disciplined execution
Oversee the budget and learning asset portfolio
Define and track enterprise-level success metrics
Partner with Global Skilling, Talent Management, and People Analytics teams
Continuously bring in external best and next practices
Lead, develop, and inspire a high-performing team of learning professionals
Foster a culture of innovation, inclusion, and continuous improvement
Requirements:
Extensive experience in learning, talent, or workforce development leadership
Demonstrated success designing and leading large-scale upskilling and reskilling strategies
Proven ability to translate learning strategies into measurable business outcomes
Strong point of view on the future of skills, including the impact of AI and emerging technologies
Highly effective people leader with experience leading senior leaders and multidisciplinary teams in complex, global, matrixed environments
Exceptional stakeholder influence and communication skills
Ability to operate as a trusted advisor to senior business and HR leaders
What we offer:
Insurance (including medical, prescription drug, dental, vision, disability, life insurance)
Flexible spending account and health savings account
Paid leaves (including 16 weeks of new parent leave and up to 20 days of bereavement leave)
80 hours of Paid Sick and Safe Time
25 days of vacation time and 5 personal days
10 annual paid U.S. observed holidays
401k with a best-in-class company match
Deferred compensation for eligible roles
Fitness reimbursement or on-site fitness facilities