Rukuma Viegas · New York · Global

I find and fix the engines
that grow global businesses.

Product and program leadership at the intersection of payments, marketing, and AI — built at Mastercard, sharpened by Cornell, applied across continents. I don't apply for roles. I build things worth an offer.

Product Management· Program Management· Global Digital Marketing

I've spent my career where the hard problems live: global programs, payments, and the messy space between strategy and execution. I came up through brand and communications in India — Tetra Pak, Persistent, Microsoft's website work via Cybage — then moved into the engine room at Mastercard, where I've gone from marketing communications to Technical Program Manager to Product Manager. At Cornell I learned to think in systems — and to see what breaks before it breaks.

Today I work the way the best operators do: with an AI-native toolkit, a network of leaders across payments and tech, and a bias for measurable outcomes over activity.

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Proof, not promises.

Global digital marketing programs

Led multi-market campaigns and measurement that connected spend to outcomes across regions and currencies.

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Payments & product launches

Shipped programs where a day of delay costs real revenue — coordinating product, legal, and markets to launch on time.

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AI-native enablement

Brought AI tooling into marketing and program workflows — raising what a small team can ship, and making the change stick.

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Perspective on how work actually gets done.

A community I engage with, learn from, and build with.

Cornell

Professors and directors who shaped how I think in systems — Lourdes Casanova, Risa Mish, Bahriye Goren-Gulek.

Mastercard & payments

Colleagues and leaders across payments, policy, and AI — Sylvie Vermeersch, Matthias Leitzmann, Monica Jasuja.

The broader industry

Operators across fintech, digital experience, and strategy — the network that keeps me honest.

These are people I engage with and learn from — not endorsements of me by them. Full list on the voices page.

If you have a problem worth solving,
I'd like to hear about it.

I'm always open to a conversation with a leader who has a hard problem — payments, programs, growth, AI. No pitch required. Advice first, always.

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