Director, Editorial and Stakeholder Engagement - Center for Inclusive Growth

Director, Editorial And Stakeholder Engagement - Center For Inclusive Growth

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.

The Director, Editorial and Stakeholder Engagement, plays a central role in achieving the long-term vision of the Center, by engaging audiences and stakeholders through curation of convenings and thought leadership. This key role will be a strong editorial lead with a broad network of their own contacts, helping position the organization as the leading private sector voice on equitable and sustainable economic growth. The director will work in close partnership with our event production team to develop world-class convenings, original event programming, and editorial strategy, elevating insights, influencing policymakers, and advancing public discourse on inclusive growth. This individual will be instrumental in crafting the intellectual and thematic architecture of events and public forums, including private roundtables, global summits, and flagship conferences hosted or supported by the Center. They will effectively engage a wide range of internal and external stakeholders, playing a central role in the organization's strategy to grow a global community of influencers and changemakers at the intersection of economic development, finance, policy, and social impact.

This position requires creative leadership and management experience and deep subject-matter fluency in communications, partnership, convening strategy, editorial direction, program curation, and stakeholder engagement. The ideal candidate should bring strong contextual understanding of economics, finance, geopolitics, financial inclusion, and social impact / ESG.

Key responsibilities :

• Editorially leads events tied to the Center's engagement strategy, responsible for developing high impact convenings and forums, curating content and themes, and driving thought leadership aligned with the Center and MA's mission.
• Represent the Center and support its leadership in managing relationships with strategic partners.
• Provide strategic and editorial direction for Center-hosted events.
• Source opportunities to amplify and integrate the Center's research and partnerships into convenings, policy dialogues, and other high-visibility engagement platforms.
• Implement key aspects of the Center's strategic plan by establishing metrics and performance benchmarks.
• Ensure clear, consistent, and timely communication across Mastercard teams.

All About You :

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 :

In line with Mastercard's total compensation philosophy and assuming that the job will be performed in the US, the successful candidate will be offered a competitive base salary and may be eligible for an annual bonus or commissions depending on the role. The base salary offered may vary depending on multiple factors, including but not limited to location, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience.

Mastercard benefits for full time (and certain part time) employees generally include : 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, pro-rated based on date of hire; 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; eligibility for tuition reimbursement; and many more. Mastercard benefits for interns generally include : 56 hours of Paid Sick and Safe Time; jury duty leave; and on-site fitness facilities in some locations.