Common Purpose, Uncommon Opportunity. Everyone at Visa works with one goal in mind – making sure that Visa is the best way to pay and be paid, for everyone everywhere. This is our global vision and the common purpose that unites the entire Visa team. As a global payments technology company, tech is at the heart of what we do: Our VisaNet network processes over 13,000 transactions per second for people and businesses around the world, enabling them to use digital currency instead of cash and checks. We are also global advocates for financial inclusion, working with partners around the world to help those who lack access to financial services join the global economy. Visa’s sponsorships, including the Olympics and FIFA™ World Cup, celebrate teamwork, diversity, and excellence throughout the world. If you have a passion to make a difference in the lives of people around the world, Visa offers an uncommon opportunity to build a strong, thriving career. Visa is fueled by our team of talented employees who continuously raise the bar on delivering the convenience and security of digital currency to people all over the world. Join our team and find out how Visa is everywhere you want to be.

Visa Inc. is a global payments technology company that connects consumers, businesses, financial institutions and governments in more than 200 countries and territories, enabling them to use digital currency instead of cash and checks.

Visa does not issue cards, extend credit or set rates and fees for consumers. Visa's innovations enable its bank customers to offer consumers choices: Pay now with debit, ahead of time with prepaid or later with credit products. From the world's major cities to remote areas without banks, people are increasingly relying on digital currency along with mobile technology to use their money anytime, make purchases online, transfer funds and access basic financial services. All of which makes their lives easier and helps grow economies.

Behind the Visa brand are our talented employees who continuously raise the bar with innovative solutions and products that deliver the convenience and security of digital currency to more people all over the world.

The Role

Reporting to the Global Head of Push Payments, the Director Global Remittance Products is a critical leadership role responsible for building our global remittance businesses. Leveraging, Visa’s real time push payments platform, this role will have the responsibility to develop Visa’s global execution strategy, prioritize remittance applications, platform enhancements, key risk/operational controls, partnership strategies and priority markets. This role will work with regional executives and cross-functional teams to build and execute the strategy.

Candidate Profile

To be successful this candidate must have strong interpersonal skills, an analytic and strategic bent, be comfortable driving change in a highly matrixed organization, and have a proven track record in leading, managing, mentoring and motivating highly effective teams in a fast paced and demanding environment.
Responsibilities
• Drive the strategy and delivery of global remittance products and services,
• Build a real time remittance value proposition based on Visa’s global reach, operational and risk controls, global partnership/bilateral strategies,
• Build payment volumes, build pricing strategy and yield targets,
• Respond to RFP’s:- develop, manage and coordinate pitch materials and financial incentives. Provide product subject matter expertise in pitches and determine impacts to delivery resources,
• Provide industry knowledge and implications on known or potential impacts to Financial Institutions,
• Track and understand customer needs and trends providing insights into how they are/may impact client business models,
• Advocate for Visa products and initiatives with clients through consultative selling, in collaboration and conjunction with Visa sales teams,
• Inform Visa product strategy by developing marketplace viewpoint and advocating for client needs internally,
• Evaluate and approve new business partnerships prior to signing deals, highlighted associated risks to ensure appropriate deal structure. Recommend revised strategies as needed to reduce risk and improve deal performance,
• Travel to regional market locations (estimated 50% travel).

Professional Experience
• 10+ years product development experience in the financial services or payments industry
• Prior consulting or product management experience in banking and financial services, managing payment products (credit, debit, prepaid, digital, etc…) and cardholder engagement strategies,
• Knowledge of payments industry trends,
• Cross-functional experience – skills leveraging internal company support organizations to deliver value propositions,
• Demonstrated success in building and managing external partnerships and clear ability to negotiate complex structures,
• Excellent analytical skills, with the capability to direct and interpret sophisticated hypothesis-driven analyses,
• Strong understanding money transfer businesses, risk management and key controls,
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including presentation generation and delivery to executive management.
Leadership Characteristics
• Passionate about what you do, fired up about the opportunity to transform payments working for the industry leader,
• Proven leadership capabilities including strong thought leadership, effective decision making, strategy development and ability to drive results,
• Strategic thinker with the ability to frame-up the results into a cohesive strategy and articulate recommendations and insights to board-level executives and middle management,
• Deep experience with all aspects of product development life-cycle, including planning, product management, product marketing, and development,
• Ability to set product strategy and drive management of business with Financial Institutions to optimize volume and revenue outcomes,
• Thought leader who can assimilate data from multiple conflicting sources,
• Strong disposition towards action,
• Ability to build strong networks and relationships across organizational boundaries,
• An ability to instill and reinforce a strong customer service and business-oriented ethic in a team,
• Strong communication skills; ability to communicate at all levels of the organization,
• Comfortable operating in a highly matrixed and complex organization,
• Comfortable operating in ambiguity,
• Self-aware with ability to adapt to various situations,
• Strong people manager with a proactive participative management style and a recognized ability to bring in, develop and export talent across the organization.

Visa will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the requirements of Article 49 of the San Francisco Police Code.
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