Sr. Director, Data Management

Visa • Austin, TX

6h • Hybrid

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.
Responsibilities:
Product Strategy and Roadmap:
Set the end‑to‑end Enhanced Data product strategy, OKRs, and roadmap. Align with regional needs and platform capabilities.
Build and maintain business cases. Prioritize investments using data‑driven frameworks and customer - market insights.
Product Delivery and Lifecycle Management:
Drive requirements, design, delivery, and launch for data ingestion, normalization, enrichment/matching, and distribution services powering our global enhanced data offerings.
Establish product health metrics (quality, completeness, latency, resiliency), run quarterly reviews, and execute continuous improvement.
Commercialization and Client Outcomes:
Partner with Sales, Marketing, and Client Services to craft value propositions and GTM. Support issuer/processor onboarding, migrations, and scaling (e.g., data mandates, waiver removals).
Ensure documentation, training, and client communications are timely and accurate. Lead escalation playbooks for data issues.
Risk, Controls and Compliance:
Collaborate with Legal, Compliance, and Risk to ensure commercial data products meet regional regulatory requirements and Visa standards.
Own adjudication and change‑management processes for data rules and report impacts across affected systems.
Leadership and People Management:
Build, lead, and develop a high‑performing product team. Foster culture of clarity, accountability, and inclusion.
Cross‑Functional Partnership:
Coordinate with Product Operations/PMO (e.g., ongoing governance) to ensure clear status, risks, and decisions.
Engage Engineering, Data Platform, and Regional Product leaders to sequence dependencies and accelerate delivery.
This is a hybrid position. Expectation of days in office will be confirmed by your hiring manager.

Requirements

• 12 or more years of work experience with a Bachelor’s Degree or at least 10 years of work experience with an Advanced degree (e.g. Masters/MBA /JD/MD), or a minimum of 5 years of work experience with a PhD

Nice To Haves

• 15 or more years of experience with a Bachelor’s Degree or 12 years of experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, or MD), PhD with 9+ years of experience
• 12+ years of product management including management of large scale products.
• Bachelor's degree in Data Science, Business, or related field (or equivalent experience).
• Demonstrated leadership of cross functional teams building platform/data capabilities.
• Extensive experience working with engineering and design teams is required.
• Demonstrated experience with integrating AI into routine work and previous product development.
• 7+ years of people leadership experience.
• Experience at technology companies is highly preferred.
• Understanding of commercial card data is nice to have, but the preference is for candidates with extensive product management experience at a software company where you have worked hand in hand with engineering and design.
• Track record delivering brining new software solutions to market and at scale that bring a measurable revenue impact.
• Experience with product operations at scale: governance, change management, and client communications.

Responsibilities

• Set the end‑to‑end Enhanced Data product strategy, OKRs, and roadmap. Align with regional needs and platform capabilities.
• Build and maintain business cases. Prioritize investments using data‑driven frameworks and customer - market insights.
• Drive requirements, design, delivery, and launch for data ingestion, normalization, enrichment/matching, and distribution services powering our global enhanced data offerings.
• Establish product health metrics (quality, completeness, latency, resiliency), run quarterly reviews, and execute continuous improvement.
• Partner with Sales, Marketing, and Client Services to craft value propositions and GTM. Support issuer/processor onboarding, migrations, and scaling (e.g., data mandates, waiver removals).
• Ensure documentation, training, and client communications are timely and accurate. Lead escalation playbooks for data issues.
• Collaborate with Legal, Compliance, and Risk to ensure commercial data products meet regional regulatory requirements and Visa standards.
• Own adjudication and change‑management processes for data rules and report impacts across affected systems.
• Build, lead, and develop a high‑performing product team. Foster culture of clarity, accountability, and inclusion.
• Coordinate with Product Operations/PMO (e.g., ongoing governance) to ensure clear status, risks, and decisions.
• Engage Engineering, Data Platform, and Regional Product leaders to sequence dependencies and accelerate delivery.

Benefits

• Visa has a comprehensive benefits package for which this position may be eligible that includes Medical, Dental, Vision, 401 (k), FSA/HSA, Life Insurance, Paid Time Off, and Wellness Program.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees