Mastercard 2025 Summer Internship Program, Istanbul, Türkiye- Business Opportunities

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

Mastercard 2025 Summer Internship Program, Istanbul, Türkiye- Business Opportunities

Apply for our Summer Internship program and spend your summer enhancing your skills, sharing your ideas and making a difference in the real world.

Opportunities include Account Management, and Customer Solutions.

Who is Mastercard?
Mastercard is a global technology company behind the world's fastest payments processing network. 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 the opportunity to be a part of something bigger and to change lives. We believe as our company grows, so should you. We believe in connecting everyone to endless, priceless possibilities.

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.

Mastercard Summer Internship Program
The Mastercard Summer Internship Program is a comprehensive 10-week program where students will gain hands on real work-life skills while having fun and contributing to a global company. As an intern, you will be challenged with completing projects that will enhance your skills as well as contribute to the department's goals and objectives.

Across the summer, you'll jump into experiencing work & life at Mastercard whilst gaining valuable professional experience and the opportunity to network. Successful interns also have the opportunity to secure a place of our Launch program upon graduating, which you can find out more about here.

Program components
• Challenging and impactful projects
• Networking, mentorship, and access to senior leaders
• Volunteer and team building experiences
• Participation in a global innovation challenge that could have material impact on Mastercard's future

What you'll do
There are Summer Intern opportunities in Account Management and Customer Solutions teams for 2025. Please highlight if you have a particular preference in your CV, otherwise based on your profile you would be matched to the role seen to best align with your skillset:

Account Management
Responsible from account management of local players (banks, non-financial institutions, FinTech) for managing the relationships with these players, this involves working with cross functional teams through Mastercard to facilitate the sales of additional products and services.
• Assist Account Managers to complete routine business processes
• Create materials for contracts, agreement, pitching/presentation deck under Account Managers' guidance
• Support Account Managers execute initiatives across multiple business functions
• Support Account Leads on team activity management and performance tracking
• Ensure up-to-date with the market and industry development, contribute ideas to enhance Mastercard competitive edge
• Support internal data research and analysis in weekly and monthly base for key accounts
• Support documentations by preparing for contracts and assisting in processing data for customer review materials

Customer Solutions
Customer Solutions across Mastercard, lead the product solutioning for prioritized customer segments in markets. Responsible creating and selling compelling data-driven, scalable and needs-based solutions to new and existing customers by tapping into Mastercard's extensive suite of products and services offerings. Customer Solutions across Mastercard, lead the product solutioning for prioritized customer segments in markets.

• Develop consumer value propositions for Mastercard cardholders from different segments (mass, affluent)
• Research and analyse best practices in the region and around the globe to ensure most up-to-date knowledge on consumer payments' ecosystem
• Analyse Mastercard data to unravel insights on different payment flows
• Build new business models / strategies to grow and expand consumer card payments' ecosystem
• Support issuers in card projects (create use-cases, feasibility analysis, business requirements, etc.)
• Support Team Members execute initiatives across multiple business functions (local, regional, global)
• Support Team Members on reporting to upper management about the performance of initiatives

What you'll need

• Undergraduate or master's degree with an expected graduation date between Dec 2025-July 2026
• Outstanding record of academic achievement
• Innovative thinking and thoughtful risk-taking.
• Ability to partner across the organization.
• Ability to communicate complex ideas effectively - both verbally and in writing - in English and Turkish

This role is not eligible for Mastercard's work authorization sponsorship. As such, candidates must be eligible to work in Türkiye, now as well as in the future, without employer sponsorship.

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.