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.
Why join Mastercard’s internship program?
Mastercard's internship program offers more than hands-on work. It provides an opportunity to build skills, expand your network, and make a meaningful impact while working on projects that support business priorities.
About The Team
Mastercard’s Advisors & Consulting Services (A&CS) team helps clients drive impact through data-driven insights, hands-on implementation, and a collaborative, tech-enabled culture. We invest in talent through global engagements, continuous learning, and programs like the Global Ambassadors Program, while fostering purpose through volunteerism, pro-bono work, and innovation that benefits both clients and communities.
What you’ll do
As an Associate Consultant Intern, you will collaborate within small teams to help some of the world's biggest brands answer and implement solutions for their most challenging strategic questions. You will immediately create meaningful contributions through ownership of deliverables and building external relationships with clients. Focusing on technology and data, you will gain broad exposure to a range of industries, including financial services, retail, restaurants, hospitality, and more.
You Will
• Work in small teams to support strategic consulting projects across industries
• Collaborate with colleagues across different areas of the organization and gain exposure to business development, account management, and product management
• Analyze data, identify trends, and help translate insights into recommendations
• Create clear and compelling presentations for internal teams and clients
• Support problem solving by structuring challenges and exploring solutions
• Build an understanding of how consulting engagements are delivered end to end
• Participate in volunteer and team building experiences
• Gain exposure to our leadership team through networking sessions and speaker series
• Begin to build relationships with clients to understand their business needs, seek strategic solutions and guide impactful decisions
• Grow by receiving hands-on mentorship from an experienced management team.
Specialization Tracks
We are looking for passionate and talented professionals who share our vision for helping our customers with their most urgent business needs. We are recruiting five specialization tracks that make up our team. Track placement will indicate the types of projects where you will spend most of your time; however, we encourage and enable working across tracks to allow team members to acquire diverse skills and experiences.
• Strategy & Transformation: Guide clients through strategic, tactical, operational, and transformational challenges to enhance performance and operations.
• Marketing: Develop strategies and lead implementation of marketing campaigns and engagements; evaluate results to drive performance on behalf of Mastercard’s clients.
What we’re looking for
• Undergraduate or accelerated master’s degree with an expected graduation date in spring 2027
Core Competencies
• Passion
• Analytic Excellence
• Business Interest
• Rapid Growth
• Teamwork
• Integrity
• Diverse Perspective
• Communication
As an intern, you'll benefit from
• Mentorship and coaching from experienced professionals and leaders
• Networking opportunities with fellow interns, employees, and senior leaders
• Professional development experiences focused on career growth and skill-building
• Exposure to innovative technologies and global business challenges
• Volunteer, community engagement, and team-building activities
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.