Project Management Intern, Summer 2024 – United States

Job Description

Our Purpose We work 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. Our decency quotient, or DQ, drives our culture and everything we do inside and outside of our company. We cultivate a culture of inclusion for all employees that respects their individual strengths, views, and experiences. We believe that our differences enable us to be a better team – one that makes better decisions, drives innovation and delivers better business results. Title and Summary Project Management Intern, Summer 2024 – United States Overview
Mastercard works to connect and power a sustainable and inclusive global economy. We are a vehicle for commerce, a connection to financial systems for the previously excluded, a technology innovation lab, and the home of Priceless®. We ensure every employee has opportunity to be a part of something bigger and to change lives. We believe in connecting everyone to endless, priceless possibilities.

Internship Program
Mastercard’s summer internship program provides emerging talent with projects that will enhance skills as well as contribute to the department’s goals and objectives. In this program, you will participate in:

• Networking events, mentorship opportunities, and hear from senior leaders
• Volunteer and team building opportunities
• Formal performance assessments
• End-of-summer presentations to peers and Mastercard leadership

Role Description
As a Project Management Intern, you will:

• Build dashboards to facilitate on-demand communication and reporting.
• Improve data quality and automate metric generation.
• Participate in solutioning efforts to advance strategic engagements.
• Responsibilities will vary per team

Qualifications

• Currently enrolled in a bachelor’s degree program with a graduation date of December 2024 or beyond

- Thrive in a fast- paced, entrepreneurial environment.

• Ability to translate technical information into business concepts and back.
• Ability to effectively collaborate in a geographically distributed environment.
• Must feel comfortable asking questions, challenging the status quo, and take initiative to advance projects
• Ability to effectively communicate technology to businesspeople and business to technology people.
• Organized, with an ability function in environments where the agenda is not clear, and the obvious solutions are not always best suited from a strategic point of view.
• High-energy, can-do attitude, very strong sense of ownership and desire to succeed with commensurate analytical, technical, and strategic skills.
• Understanding of software methodologies, principles, theories, and concepts.

This role is not eligible for Mastercard’s work authorization sponsorship. As such, candidates must be eligible to work in the United States, now as well as in the future, without employer sponsorship. For example, students or recent graduates in the United States on an F1 visa (including those with CPT or OPT authorization) are not eligible for this role. In the US, Mastercard is an inclusive Equal Employment Opportunity employer that considers applicants without regard to gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, ethnicity, disabled or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. If you require accommodations or assistance to complete the online application process, please contact reasonable_accommodation@mastercard.com and identify the type of accommodation or assistance you are requesting. Do not include any medical or health information in this email. The Reasonable Accommodations team will respond to your email promptly. 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:

• Abide by Mastercard’s security policies and practices;
• Ensure the confidentiality and integrity of the information being accessed;
• Report any suspected information security violation or breach, and
• Complete all periodic mandatory security trainings in accordance with Mastercard’s guidelines.