Mastercard

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.

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Summer Internship Program 2026 - Account Management, Product Management & Solutions – Istanbul, Türkiye

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.

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

Available Opportunities

Please specify if you have a preferred function as part of your application in your CV or if you are open to all. This information will be leveraged to best match applicants to the most suitable role.

1. Account Management

As part of our Account Management track, you can expect to focus on strategic sales planning and consultative and solution selling.

These teams provide:

• Product expertise and help leverage Mastercard integrated solutions to drive sales and revenue goals
• Is responsible for setting sales strategies as it relates to products that are aligned with geographical strategy and help identify and close sales leads
• Market intelligence to product developers and managers to support design, development and implementation efforts

2. Product Management and Solutions

As part of our Product Management and Solutions track, you can expect to focus on user experience, product performance and ongoing management, customer needs and insights and architecting solutions.

These teams provide:

• The overall coordination, status reporting, financials, schedules and stability of project-oriented work efforts, ensuring that project goals and objectives are met within agreed time, scope and resource requirements
• Detailed project plans and manages all implementation processes within budget constraints

We recruit for and value the following core competencies:

• Passion: Actively seeks responsibility and takes pride in delivering the highest quality results and recommendations to our clients. Proven record of leadership in a work setting and/or through extracurricular activities.
• Analytic Excellence: Demonstrates a strong aptitude for structured problem solving, analytical and quantitative skills.
• Business Interest: Clear interest in the world of business, and intuition for the way that 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 will to win attitude.
• Integrity: Outstanding record of academic achievement. Commitment to Mastercard's values of honesty and integrity with a willingness to embrace and learn from mistakes.
• Diverse Perspective: Brings a unique skillset or approach to the table in every 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 Dec 2026 - Aug 2027
• 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.