Vice President, Clearing

Visa•Foster City, CA

8h•Hybrid

About The Position

Visa is seeking a Vice President, Clearing role to strengthen executive ownership of the most business-critical, regulator-visible components of VisaNet. As Visa scales transaction volume, accelerates platform modernization, and embeds GenAI across core systems, the existing operating model requires additional VP level accountability to safely drive transformation without compromising stability, accuracy, or trust. Reporting to the SVP, Clearing, Settlement and Treasury Services within Payment Products Development (PPD), this VP will operate as a true peer to other PPD platform leaders and as a key execution partner to the CTO agenda.

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.

Nice To Haves

15+ years of software engineering experience, including senior executive leadership roles
Proven experience leading large, globally distributed engineering organizations (100+ engineers)
Ownership of mission critical, regulator visible platforms operating at global scale
Background in payments, financial services, or large-scale transaction processing platforms
Demonstrated experience driving AI enabled or automation led transformation in high-risk operational environments
Hands‑on experience applying GenAI, ML, or advanced analytics in production systems
Strong record of exercising judgment across modernization, financial risk, and regulatory exposure
Experience operating within audit intensive, highly regulated environments
History of leading modernization across deeply entrenched legacy platforms
Ability to engage credibly with SVPs, regulators, auditors, and external partners

Responsibilities

End‑to‑End Platform Ownership
Executive accountability for Clearing platforms that clear, and settle hundreds of millions of transactions daily
Ownership of platform outcomes including financial accuracy, settlement timeliness, resiliency, scalability, and regulatory compliance
Material influence on issuer and acquirer trust, Visa brand integrity, and revenue execution
GenAI Led Platform Transformation
Accountability for defining and executing a multi‑year GenAI and automation transformation strategy across Clearing
Responsibility for applying GenAI in ways that materially improve platform quality, operational resilience, and execution speed, including:
Predictive incident detection and prevention
Intelligent exception handling and transaction monitoring
Automated reconciliation, controls, and audit readiness
Responsibility for embedding GenAI across the software development lifecycle, including design, engineering, testing, and operations, to materially improve platform quality, operational resilience, and execution speed
Clear ownership of judgment calls on where GenAI meaningfully adds value versus where deterministic, rules based approaches must remain
Partnership with Architecture, Risk, Legal, and Controls teams to ensure responsible, explainable, and regulator ready AI adoption
Platform Strategy and Modernization
Ownership of multi-year modernization roadmaps aligned to VisaNet evolution, cloud adoption, and service based architectures
Leadership of complex change across deep legacy platforms and modern stacks, with zero tolerance for avoidable operational risk
Strategic input into enterprise architecture, data strategy, and platform standardization decisions that affect VisaNet at scale
Driving the evolution of engineering standards to ensure long-term scalability and excellence
Operations, Risk and Regulatory Readiness
Accountability for 24x7, always on operations with extreme availability and accuracy requirements
Ownership of production readiness, incident management, post incident learning, audits, and regulatory engagements
Responsibility for operational, financial, and risk metrics surfaced at Executive Leadership Team, Board, and regulator levels
People and Leadership
Leadership of a large, globally distributed engineering organization spanning multiple time zones
Development of strong succession pipelines, including leaders with deep platform and GenAI fluency
Establishment of a culture centered on ownership, operational discipline, accountability, and responsible innovation
Partner with Product, Platform Architecture, Treasury, Risk, and Operations leaders to deliver end-to-end payment processing outcomes
Translate business, regulatory, and risk requirements into clear platform strategies and executable plans
Drive GenAI adoption in ways that are outcome focused, measurable, and regulator credible
Lead modernization efforts while actively managing tradeoffs between speed, stability, and operational risk
Act as a senior voice in executive forums, clearly articulating risk, opportunity, and platform tradeoffs
Represent the organization in regulatory discussions, audits, and critical partner engagements as required