Rotational Graduate Launch Program 2026 – Warsaw, Poland

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.

Title and Summary

We are looking for passionate and talented professionals who share our vision for helping our customers bring one‑stop solutions to address their product needs in a fast and innovative way. Mastercard Launch is an 18‑month global development program that provides recent graduates with opportunities and exposure.

Program details: part of the APEMEA business unit, offering 2 × nine‑month rotations across curated career tracks, designed to enrich and diversify the launch of your career and enhance professional growth.

Available Opportunities

Career Track 1 – Sales and Business Development

Focus areas: strategic sales planning, consultative and solution selling.

• Product expertise and leveraging Mastercard integrated solutions to drive sales and revenue goals.
• Responsibility for setting sales strategies aligned with geographical strategy and identifying and closing sales leads.
• Market intelligence to product developers and managers to support design, development and implementation efforts.

Career Track 2 – Product Management and Solutions

Focus areas: user experience, product performance, ongoing management, customer needs, insights and architecting solutions.

• Overall coordination, status reporting, financials, schedules and stability of project‑oriented work efforts; ensuring goals and objectives are met within agreed time, scope and resource requirements.
• Detailed project plans and management of all implementation processes within budget constraints.

Skills Learned Across All Experiences

• Payments knowledge – project management – data analytics – influencing and negotiation – strategic thinking – local market dynamics.

Core Competencies We Recruit For and Value

• Passion: Actively seeks responsibility and takes pride in delivering high quality results and recommendations; proven record of leadership in a work setting and/or through extracurricular activities.
• Analytic Excellence: Demonstrates a strong aptitude for structured problem solving and analytical and quantitative skills.
• Business Interest: Clear interest in the world of business and intuition for how companies make decisions.
• Rapid Growth: Eagerness to learn quickly, both through Mastercard’s structured training curriculum and organic development opportunities.
• Teamwork: Willingness to work within small teams to produce outstanding deliverables, with a win attitude.
• Integrity: Outstanding academic record and commitment to Mastercard’s values of honesty and integrity with a willingness to learn from mistakes.
• Diverse Perspective: Brings a unique skillset or approach to each client engagement or internal activity.
• Communication: Ability to communicate complex ideas effectively; excellent written and verbal communication skills.

Qualifications

• Undergraduate or master’s degree with an expected graduation date between September 2025–September 2026.

What You’ll Need

• Available to start from 1 September 2026.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills.
• Analytical and problem‑solving skills.
• Strong strategic and conceptual aptitude.
• Ability to multi‑task and prioritize multiple projects concurrently.
• High energy, can‑do attitude, strong sense of ownership and desire to succeed with analytical, technical, and strategic skills.

Corporate Security Responsibility

• 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.
• Complete all periodic mandatory security trainings in accordance with Mastercard’s guidelines.