Vice President, Acceptance Solutions Platform

Visa•Austin, TX

1d•Hybrid

About The Position

The Acceptance Solutions Product Development team at Visa drives revenue diversification by developing solutions that address complex and emerging merchant and acquirer needs, aiming to increase total merchant value. Their mission is to lead the future of payment acceptance, helping clients navigate digital commerce and achieve flexibility. The Visa Acceptance Platform seeks to be the world's most open payment platform, delivering market-leading, globally relevant, omnichannel acceptance componentry through open, composable, modular APIs with Visa-grade resilience, security, maintenance, and scale. The VP will lead product development for this platform, collaborating with technology, global product, and market-facing teams. The Platform organization includes 6 Team of Teams (TofTs) supporting client capabilities, Data Platform, Shared Platform Services, DevOps, Observability, SRE, and Performance Testing. This global role supports all regions and aligns with 6 Acceptance Solutions Portfolios. Reporting to the Senior Vice President, Product Development, Technology Acceptance Solutions, this position is responsible for aggressively expanding Visa’s product portfolios, serving as a senior and transformational role focused on autonomy and next-generation thinking.

Requirements

12 or more years of work experience with a Bachelor’s Degree or at least 10 years of experience with an Advanced degree (e.g. Masters/ MBA/JD/MD) or at least 8 years of work experience with a PhD.
Experience leading large, global technology teams and a broad software engineering leadership background.
Previous experience in design, architecture, and engineering experience of highly available, resilient, scalable systems.
Experience leading large, global technology teams of at least 150+ employees and a broad software engineering leadership background.
Proven ability to lead multidisciplinary technology teams, providing guidance, and nurturing talent.
Track record of effectively communicating complex technical concepts to diverse stakeholders.
Demonstrated experience in change management concerning the adoption of new technologies.
Strong organizational skills with the ability to manage multiple projects, teams, and priorities concurrently.
Ability to build and maintain strong relationships across various departments, ensuring seamless collaboration and communication.
Proven capability to align departmental strategies with the broader corporate vision.
Experience in creating a collaborative and innovative work culture that encourages risk-taking and fosters excellence.
Experience in coding, architecting and leading large teams of technologists.
Experience managing a large global and disparate team of engineers across multiple time zones and cultures.
Have experience in Development Operations and modern CI/CD techniques.
Strong track record of building enterprise transaction-based system with focus on security, reliability, scalability, and performance.
Experience working in Agile framework and comfortable working in matrixed organization.
Excellent knowledge of core engineering best practices and passion to implement these across the team.
Demonstrated ability to recruit, grow, retain, and lead high-caliber technical talent.
Exceptional collaboration and partnership skills with the ability to work in a global environment and drive consensus in cross-functional teams.
Strong commercial acumen, able to forecast business trends and translate into agile technology acceptance solutions.

Nice To Haves

Deep Payments industry knowledge highly desired, specifically disputes.
Payments industry experience desired, enterprise experience advantageous.
15 or more years of work experience with a bachelor’s degree or at least 12 years of work experience with an advanced degree (e.g. Masters/MBA/ JD/MD) or a minimum of 10 years of work experience with a PhD.
Proficiency in cloud-based solutions is highly desired.
Proven experience managing multidisciplinary teams and overseeing large-scale technology projects.
Exceptional communication skills with a knack for translating complex technical jargon into understandable language for non-technical stakeholders.
Experience leading large, global technology teams of at least 300+ employees and a broad software engineering leadership background.
Deep Payments industry knowledge highly desired.

Responsibilities

Directly responsible for product development for the Visa Acceptance Platform.
Lead cross-functional global team of senior engineers, solution architects, technical project managers to define technology project architecture, technology strategy, and play a leadership role providing guidance to stakeholders.
Provide technical vision and a roadmap to align with the corporate strategy and the technical strategy.
Provide technical thought leadership and management in building code that is secure and passes all Visa cyber security requirements.
Provide technical thought leadership and management in building code that has an always-on architecture and uptime/availability characteristics in excess of 99.999%.
Work closely with product management and the regions to define the right feature set and technical roadmap to support the company vision and strategy across our ecosystem.
Work closely with cybersecurity and operations & infrastructure to ensure a seamless model of coding, deployment and operations of the code in production.
Execute technology strategies and key priorities to meet business objectives and strategies with key stakeholders across technology, global product and market facing teams.
Work directly and closely with cross functional stakeholders to develop multi-year strategic outlook plans, instrumental in defining solutions for large/complex opportunities/challenges.
Support a globally distributed team of 220+ employees.
Manage and enhance our global organizational model and our global workforce in NA, Europe and Asia.
Maintain operational and fiscal discipline by effectively managing the scope/schedule and budget.
Lead agile product development teams working with clients (issuers, acquirers, processors and service providers) to commercialize new or existing underutilized products to address broader use cases.
Define, coordinate customer change management and support strategies.