Director, Global Products Strategic Initiatives
About The Position
Visa is a world leader in payments technology, facilitating transactions between consumers, merchants, financial institutions and government entities across more than 200 countries and territories, dedicated to uplifting everyone, everywhere by being the best way to pay and be paid. At Visa, you'll have the opportunity to create impact at scale — tackling meaningful challenges, growing your skills and seeing your contributions impact lives around the world. Join Visa and do work that matters — to you, to your community, and to the world. Progress starts with you. Visa’s Global Products & Initiatives (GP&I) organization is responsible for Visa’s consumer payments product portfolio, including products like Credit, Debit, Visa Flex Credential, and Visa Payment Passkey. We are seeking a Director on the Strategic Initiatives & Operations team, who will play a critical role in enabling the GP&I organization to deliver against our 2030 goals. This role will own the strategy and execution of strategic initiatives across consumer payments including leading Visa’s Global Product Drop. This is a highly collaborative and strategic role working closely with partners across Product, Strategy, Design, Data, Marketing, Comms and Regional teams. This is a hybrid position. Expectation of days in the office will be confirmed by your Hiring Manager.
Requirements
- 10 years of relevant work experience with a Bachelor's Degree or 8 years of relevant work experience with an Advanced degree (e.g. Masters/MBA/JD/MD) or 3 years relevant work experience with a PhD
- Proven experience in strategic leadership roles within management consulting, product strategy, corporate strategy or equivalent
- Experience in and/or significant exposure to the payments, financial services or technology sector
- Demonstrated success independently leading and managing complex, cross-functional projects, over a wide variety of functional business problems
- Strong executive presence and ability to clearly communicate compelling messages to senior stakeholders and external business partners
- Superior strategic thinking, analytical, and problem-solving skills, with demonstrated intellectual and analytical rigor and attention to detail
- Self-starter, team oriented, collaborative, diplomatic, and flexible, with excellent presentation skills, including strong oral and writing capabilities
- Passion for the payments industry and a desire to deliver impactful, customer-centric products and solutions
Nice To Haves
- 12 or more years of work experience with a Bachelor’s Degree or 8-10 years of experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD) or 6+ years of work experience with a PhD
- Experience managing and developing high-performing teams, with a focus on coaching, talent development, and building inclusive team cultures
Responsibilities
- Own execution of Visa’s Global Product Drop including identifying products to feature, creating product narratives, building product demos & coordinating across Product, Events, Comms, Marketing and Design
- Lead high impact strategy projects and initiatives across GP&I, such as Visa’s affluent strategy, and ecommerce roadmap
- Structure and solve business problems, collaborating with a range of internal stakeholders across regions and functions to advance initiatives and ensure alignment
- Inform the development of unique, creative, and impactful products and solutions by integrating insights across Visa’s functional resources
- Develop rigorous, data-backed, quantitative and qualitative analyses to ensure strategic and financial soundness of decisions and recommendations
- Build strong relationships across product, regional, and cross-functional teams
Stand Out From the Crowd
Upload your resume and get instant feedback on how well it matches this job.
What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Director
