Our Purpose

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Title and Summary

Director, Cyber Threat Intelligence

About the Role:

As Director, Cyber Threat Intelligence for Asia Pacific, you will lead the development and execution of a regional cyber threat intelligence strategy that protects and informs executive and senior leaders across financial institutions, government agencies, payment networks, digital economy platforms, and merchants throughout the region. You will oversee the collection, analysis, and dissemination of strategic intelligence on emerging threats, threat actors, fraud and identity trends, and geopolitical developments — translating complex adversarial tradecraft into clear, actionable business risk insights that drive decisions at the highest levels. Working at the intersection of intelligence and cybersecurity product management, you will shape both regional intelligence strategy and how that intelligence strengthens cyber resilience across Asia Pacific.

Key Responsibilities:

• Intelligence Strategy & Production
• Define regional intelligence collection priorities and govern the quality of strategic, operational, and tactical intelligence outputs across financial services, payments, government, and the digital economy.
• Leverage best-in-class threat intelligence platforms and data sources to monitor the Asia Pacific threat landscape, tracking nation-state, cybercriminal, and hacktivist activity alongside fraud, identity, and scam trends.
• Develop and maintain threat actor profiles, track adversary TTPs using frameworks including MITRE ATT&CK, and produce finished intelligence products — including threat assessments, campaign analysis, geopolitical reporting, and long-term intelligence estimates.
• Executive Engagement & Thought Leadership
• Deliver executive-level intelligence briefings and written assessments to senior leaders across financial institutions, payment networks, merchants, and government agencies; translate complex adversarial tradecraft into clear, actionable business risk.
• Represent the organization in regional and international intelligence-sharing communities and engage government agencies, central banks, regulators, and law enforcement across Asia Pacific.
• Serve as a credible external voice on Asia Pacific cyber risk at industry conferences, government forums, and media engagements, with particular authority on payments security, identity, and scam and fraud trends.
• Cybersecurity Product & Commercial Enablement
• Translate regional threat insights into intelligence that informs cybersecurity product roadmap priorities, solution strategy, and customer engagements across financial institutions, merchants, and government partners.
• Support pre-sales and customer success engagements with customized threat assessments and regional risk context that differentiate cybersecurity offerings.
• Monitor the competitive threat intelligence landscape and contribute to product positioning and go-to-market strategy based on evolving market and adversarial trends.

Qualifications:

• 10+ years of experience in cybersecurity, threat intelligence, or related security domains, including leadership responsibilities.

• Strong understanding of cyber threat actors, attack methodologies, and intelligence frameworks such as MITRE ATT&CK.

• Proven experience producing strategic intelligence reports and delivering executive-level briefings.

• Familiarity with the cybersecurity landscape, regulatory environments, and threat activity across Asia Pacific, ideally including financial services, payments, identity, and scam/fraud ecosystems.

• Excellent analytical, research, leadership, and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence executive audiences and partner effectively with customer and public-sector stakeholders.

• Bachelor’s degree in Cybersecurity, Computer Science, International Relations, or a related field; advanced degree or relevant certifications are a plus.

• What We Offer

• A strategic leadership role in a high-growth, high-impact domain.

• Exposure to global product teams and cutting-edge security technologies.

• Competitive compensation, flexible work arrangements, and career development opportunities.

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.