Visa’s Innovation & Strategic Partnerships (I&SP) is a global client facing organization that sets Visa’s public innovation agenda, develops commercial partnerships with industry leading brands and platform providers, and promotes hands on incubation and rapid prototyping to demonstrate the art of the possible for clients and partners.

We are seeking a Business Strategy and Operations Senior Director who can deliver on a meaty role that cuts across I&SP, knows what to do with significant leadership exposure, would be a right-hand person to leaders in the organization, will drive significant change across the team, and can lead and inspire a direct reporting team of up to 5.

Responsibilities

How you will make an impact:

• You’ll understand and translate leader’s vision into tangible, explainable direction that can be shared with others to enlist them in the journey.

• You’ll play a leadership role in operationalizing key elements of the strategy—applying your ability to be at the right place at the right time

• You’ll demonstrate your passion for transforming strategic intent into a “coalition of the willing” with a sense of purpose and bring challenging cross-function efforts to life through well-structured programs and initiatives.

• You’ll help fuel organizational success by elevating key wins and challenges to your sponsors—allowing them to keep their finger on the pulse of the organization and do what they do best... knock down barriers.

• You’ll participate and contribute to regular leadership discussions bringing your own well-grounded point of view and facilitating an agenda-driven dialog across the leadership team.

• You’ll focus your astute organization effectiveness lens into efforts that build a young, rapidly growing and evolving organization into a well-run, cohesive team.

• You’ll lead a team to create best-in-class reporting dashboards to provide timely and centralized business intelligence on the partners and strategic programs to assist in critical decision making

• You’ll be data analysis wiz and comfortable being the single point of truth maintaining our executive dashboards and status updates.

• You’ll act as the catalyst for getting an organizational dialog going through events that inspire and motivate our teams. Improving collaboration among the teams is essential.
  

Why you’ll love us:

• We believe what we do is a team sport – we win together

• Our team loves what they do – driving the future of FinTech and Payments

• Quality outcomes and relationships are what matters to us

• Visa is going places and we are on the forefront

• We are growing and evolving as we go
  

Why We’ll Love You:

• You have 10+ years of experience in a fast-paced environment navigating ambiguity successfully

• You are self-motivated and highly driven. You may have run your own company or aspire to someday. You have get-things-done DNA.

• You are a jack-of-all trades, always learning and comfortable with constant change.

• You are probably a former strategy consultant who left because your vibe is “doing change” not “talking about change”.

• You live the ethos “there is no trying, only doing”

• You see “chief of staff” roles as a promotion and a chance to architect change.

• Multi-tasking and juggling is your jam, and prioritization butters your bread.

• You can distill complexity and data down and make it easily digested. You love to tell stories.

• You have great judgement and show grace under pressure.

• You are trusted by senior leaders who come to you find out “what is really going on.” You are not afraid to tell it like it is.

• You build momentum for change and carry the team across the finish line in making it happen.

• You are a great listener and can communicate clearly with many types of people
  

• You put a premium on strong working relationships and know how to use diplomacy to get things
  done.
• You know how to navigate the nuances of executives

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.