Associate Consultant Intern, Business Experimentation, Summer 2026 - Taipei, Taiwan

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

Associate Consultant Intern, Business Experimentation, Summer 2026 - Taipei, Taiwan

Services within Mastercard is responsible for acquiring, engaging, and retaining customers by managing fraud and risk, enhancing cybersecurity, and improving the digital payments experience. We provide value-added services and leverage expertise, data-driven insights, and execution.

Make an Impact as an Associate Consultant Intern

As an Associate Consultant Intern, you will collaborate within small teams to help some of the world's biggest brands answer and often implement solutions for their most challenging strategic questions. You will immediately create meaningful contributions through taking 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.

As an Associate Consultant Intern, you will :

• 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.
• Have an opportunity for meaningful contributions
• Collaborate with colleagues across different areas of the organization and gain exposure to business development, account management, and product management

We are looking for passionate and talented professionals, who share our vision for helping our customers with their most urgent business need. We are recruiting for 1 career track that makes up our team :

Business Experimentation

Leverage Mastercard's industry-leading predictive analytics platform, Test & Learn®, and SQL to run data-backed business experiments for our clients. Consultants focus on data science-based solutions to provide insights on various business initiatives, including product launches, marketing campaigns, customer loyalty, and pricing across various industries that touch many Fortune 500 companies. Partner directly with clients to share findings and help determine which ideas are effective, as well as where, when, and how to implement them.

Sampling of questions we help our customers answer :

Team members will typically support 2-4 clients concurrently, and develop a deep understanding of client business challenges through longer term engagements (typically lasting 1-2 years).

Bring your Passion and Expertise

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. Experience using data analysis or querying tools (e.g., SQL, SAS, Excel or Tableau) is an asset (particularly for Performance Analytics or Business Experimentation tracks).

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 :

Currently enrolled in a bachelor’s or accelerated master’s program graduating between Dec 2026 – July 2027.

You do not require any work visa sponsorships to work in Taiwan.

Ability to communicate complex ideas effectively – both verbally and in writing – in English and the local office language (viz. Mandarin Chinese).

Able to commit to an internship period from 6 July 2026 to 28 August 2026.

Application Instructions :

You are highly encouraged to submit a cover letter, resume and transcript (unofficial / official).

At the application stage, you are welcome to apply to all three tracks, Marketing Services (MS), Strategy & Transformation (S&T), and Business Experimentation (BE).

Apply to MS / S&T : https : / / careers.mastercard.com / us / en / job / R-257411 / Associate-Consultant-Intern-Marketing-Services-Strategy-Transformation-Summer-2026-Taipei-Taiwan

Apply to BE : https : / / careers.mastercard.com / us / en / job / R-262858 / Associate-Consultant-Intern-Business-Experimentation-Summer-2026-Taipei-Taiwan

After the application deadline, candidates will receive a short survey to indicate their track preferences. This information will be leveraged to best match applicants with their desired track. 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.

To participate in our job simulation and experience what it’s like to work as a Consultant at Mastercard visit : https : / / www.theforage.com / simulations / mastercard / advisors-client-services-xvlw

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.