Director, Stablecoin and Digital Assets Risk Intelligence & Strategy

Visa•Foster City, CA

6d•$179,000 - $287,000•Hybrid

About The Position

The Director, Stablecoin and Digital Assets Risk Intelligence & Strategy owns the long-term vision, strategy, and execution of Visa’s stablecoin and digital-assets risk intelligence capabilities. Reporting to the Senior Director of the Global CSR team, the Director leads a team of three and builds the governance, data, analytical, and decision-support capabilities needed to enable responsible growth while anticipating evolving risks, market structures, technologies, and regulatory expectations. The role sets risk strategy and governance; establishes scalable portfolio and exposure-management frameworks; leads risk surveillance and executive reporting; and owns the vision, investment priorities, and roadmap for Visa’s Stablecoin Risk Intelligence Platform. It aligns senior cross-functional stakeholders, anticipates regulatory and market developments, establishes data and model governance standards, and leads organizational performance and adoption. The position is hybrid and based in Visa’s Foster City, California office. Office-day expectations are aligned between the selected candidate and hiring manager. Work hours vary with department needs, and travel is required 5–10% of the time.

Requirements

At least 10 years of work experience with a Bachelor’s degree, at least 8 years with an advanced degree (e.g., Master’s, MBA, JD, or MD), or at least 3 years with a PhD.
Deep understanding of stablecoin economics, reserve structures, wallet and custody models, settlement flows, on- and off-ramp architectures, blockchain infrastructure, and relevant regulatory requirements.
Strength in credit and financial analysis, quantitative methods, scenario analysis, business-case development, executive communication, and senior stakeholder management.
Experience leading or directly contributing to the design, deployment, and governance of AI/ML/LLM-enabled systems in a risk, compliance, or financial-analytics context, including model validation, explainability, and human-oversight controls.
Familiarity with model risk management standards.
Experience establishing governance frameworks, approval standards, control environments, and incident-response processes in a regulated or highly controlled environment.
Ability to translate complex technical, financial, and regulatory issues into clear risk decisions and practical actions for executive and cross-functional audiences.

Nice To Haves

At least 12 years of work experience with a Bachelor’s degree, 8–10 years with an advanced degree (e.g., Master’s, MBA, JD, or MD), or 6 or more years with a PhD.
Ability to work independently, exercise sound judgment, take initiative, and deliver results in a self-directed environment.
Team-leadership and people-management capabilities, including supervising, coaching, and developing junior analysts while maintaining high standards for analytical quality and execution.
Working knowledge of AI applications, including their use in risk analytics, monitoring, decision support, workflow automation, and responsible governance.

Responsibilities

Set enterprise risk appetite, approval frameworks, and ongoing monitoring requirements for stablecoin and digital-asset counterparties.
Establish scalable frameworks for settlement limits, concentrations, liquidity, collateral, exceptions, stress testing, and scenario analysis.
Lead forward-looking surveillance and translate financial, regulatory, market, and on-chain signals into actionable insights, escalations, and senior-management reporting.
Own the vision, investment priorities, and roadmap for Visa’s Stablecoin Risk Intelligence Platform, including responsible AI-enabled detection, decision support, reporting, and automation.
Align senior stakeholders across Treasury, Product, Technology, Legal, Compliance, Crypto, and CSR on strategic priorities, decision rights, controls, and escalation protocols.
Anticipate external developments, advise leaders on risk implications, and ensure readiness for depegs, liquidity disruptions, custody or cyber events, sanctions concerns, and other material incidents.
Set standards and accountability for data quality, model performance, explainability, human oversight, access, validation, and control testing across analytical and AI-enabled capabilities.
Build a high-performing team, drive enterprise adoption, and define outcomes and key risk indicators that demonstrate risk reduction, decision quality, operational leverage, and responsible growth.
Lead a team of three.