Director, Risk Business Partner - Risk & Security Solutions (RAS)

Visa•Foster City, CA

50d•$145,100 - $273,200•Hybrid

About The Position

Visa's Product and Payment Services Risk (PPSR) organization is seeking a highly strategic and technically adept risk leader to serve as the primary Risk Business Partner supporting Risk and Security Solutions (RAS). This role sits at the intersection of enterprise risk management, fraud prevention, data analytics, product innovation, and business strategy. As a trusted advisor to senior executives, you will influence critical decisions that shape Visa's risk posture across a portfolio of market-leading risk, fraud, identity, authentication, and data-driven solutions. You will partner directly with business leaders, product organization, technology teams, and cross-functional stakeholders to proactively identify emerging risks, challenge assumptions, enhance controls, and support strategic growth initiatives. This individual will be expected to bring strong enterprise risk expertise, deep strategic thinking capabilities, and a thorough understanding of payments, fraud ecosystems and data-driven products. The ideal candidate is viewed by executive leadership as a thought leader who can translate complex risk concepts into actionable business insights while driving strategic decision-making across a rapidly evolving risk and payments landscape.

Requirements

10+ years of relevant experience with a Bachelor's degree or 8+ years of experience with an Advanced Degree (MBA, Master's, JD, MD) or 3+ years with a PhD.
Demonstrated experience in Enterprise Risk Management, Operational Risk, Technology Risk, Strategic Risk, or Product Risk.
Exceptional communication, presentation, relationship management, and executive influence skills.
Strong analytical and critical thinking capabilities.
Experience working across large, matrixed, global organizations.

Nice To Haves

12+ years of professional experience within financial services, payments, fintech, technology, consulting, or digital platforms.
7+ years supporting enterprise, strategic, technology, product, fraud, or operational risk functions.
Experience supporting fraud, identity, authentication, AI/ML, analytics, or data product organizations.
Proven ability to advise executive leadership on strategic risk decisions.
Knowledge of Visa's payments ecosystem, fraud solutions, acceptance ecosystem, issuer solutions, and risk products.
Experience partnering with product, engineering, data science, and analytics organizations.
MBA, Master's Degree, FRM, CRISC, CISA, CFA, or equivalent professional certification preferred.

Responsibilities

Serve as the primary risk advisor to the Risk and Security Solutions organization, influencing business strategy, product development, operational execution, and long-term growth initiatives.
Partner with executive leadership to identify, assess, monitor, and mitigate key enterprise, operational, technology, model, regulatory, and strategic risks.
Develop and maintain a forward-looking view of emerging risks impacting fraud management, digital identity, authentication, data products, AI/ML capabilities, and payment ecosystems.
Assess strategic initiatives, partnerships, and business transformations through a risk lens while enabling responsible innovation.
Provide effective challenge and risk-based recommendations to senior executives to support informed decision making.
Partner closely with fraud, analytics, and product teams responsible for fraud prevention, risk scoring, identity verification, authentication, and machine learning solutions.
Evaluate risks associated with data-driven products, AI/ML models, predictive analytics, fraud detection platforms, and automated decisioning capabilities.
Identify potential control gaps, model risks, data governance concerns, operational vulnerabilities, and emerging fraud threats.
Support risk oversight of data ecosystems, fraud models, identity solutions, and strategic analytics initiatives.
Connect Visa's Risk Appetite Framework with business strategy, products, and operational objectives.
Lead risk assessments for significant initiatives, product launches, and emerging business opportunities.
Drive compliance and execution across enterprise risk programs, including: PRR, RCSA, TLMP, Model Risk Management (MRM), Visa Data Assessment (ViDA).
Develop both top-down and bottom-up risk views to provide meaningful risk insights to executive leadership.
Strengthen first-line risk ownership and accountability through proactive partnership and governance.
Present risk themes, emerging threats, and portfolio-level risk insights to senior leadership.
Develop risk narratives that enable strategic decisions and support business growth.
Serve as a trusted thought partner to executives, helping balance risk management, innovation, customer experience, and commercial objectives.
Drive leadership reporting, regulator engagement support, and risk committee materials.
Support large-scale strategic initiatives involving fraud technologies, identity solutions, AI-enabled capabilities, data modernization, and new business models.
Lead efforts to enhance resiliency, operational effectiveness, governance, and controls maturity across the organization.
Foster a strong risk culture by embedding risk management practices into business processes and strategic planning activities.