Our Purpose

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Business Opportunities 2025 Summer Internship Program, Budapest, Hungary

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 in Account Management, Product Development and CSC Product - Central-European Consumer Segment teams for 2025.

Who is Mastercard?
Mastercard is a technology company in the global payments business. We connect consumers, financial institutions, merchants, governments and businesses worldwide and enable them to use secure and convenient electronic forms of payment. Mastercard is a driving force at the heart of commerce, enabling global transactions and bringing insight into the payments process to make commerce faster, more secure, and more valuable to everyone involved. As a critical link among financial institutions and millions of businesses, cardholders and merchants worldwide, Mastercard provides services in more than 210 countries and territories. You find more information on www.mastercardworldwide.com.

Mastercard Summer Internship Program
The Mastercard Summer Internship Program is a comprehensive 10-week program aimed at early career talent, 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.

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

What you’ll do:
We are offering summer internship opportunities across three key business functions: Account Management, Product Development and CSC Product - Central-European Consumer Segment teams. If you have a specific preference, please indicate it in your CV and/or Cover Letter. Otherwise, we will match you to the role that best aligns with your skill set.

1. Account Management:
Support the account manager in making client business review analysis, develop business presentations for customer meetings. You will participate in Account Manager's meeting supporting the Account Manager making meeting minutes. Learn to navigate in Salesforce (SFDC) sales pipeline management tool, creating CRM reports, and learn about end-to-end contract management process. You will learn how to solve customer challenges and issues and by doing so, how to navigate in a corporate environment in order to find solutions to these challenges across the organization (stakeholder management)

2. Product Development: Developing and exploring new payment solutions, including domestic and cross-border payment products. The Product Summer intern will assist in researching current market trends, contribute to the creation and implementation of innovative payment solutions.

3. CSC Product – Central-European Consumer Segment:
Support divisional (12 countries) consumer strategy development with deep-dive into statistics, reports and market overviews, drive sustainability-related initiatives, and collaborate with markets to iterate and refine key projects.


What you’ll need
• To be available to work Full-time between Mid-June to End of August.
• To be a Penultimate Masters/Undergraduate Student, due to graduate no earlier than 2026
• Proficiency in both English and Hungarian is required

• Innovative thinking and thoughtful risk-taking.
• Ability to partner across the organization.
• Sound communication skills.
• Expert PC skills including proficiency in Microsoft Excel, Word, PowerPoint, and Access
• Additional languages a plus

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.