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 is seeking a Senior HR Business Partner to act as the primary talent partner aligned to Corporate Functions.  He/she will have a commercially-focused mindset and help translate those issues to human resources capabilities. The individual will have global partnership responsibilities accounting for an employee population of approximately 800 employees. 
This individual will also be a key member of the HR Corp Functions leadership team and work closely with their internal counterparts for successful planning and delivery of HR programs and services to the business. The Senior HR Business Partner will operate as a trusted advisor and business partner to functional executives and to other members of the company's senior management team, functioning as the expert on people and organizational issues. He/ She will be comfortable in a fast-paced environment with significant change.   
 Responsibilities
•    Serve as a strategic business partner to senior leadership focused on a broad-based and transformational talent agenda designed to recruit, develop and retain the very best innovative talent in the business
•    Direct the human resources organization within client groups to develop and execute best practices to promote employee engagement and to enable a high-performing workforce to contribute to the company's strategic growth
•    Provide proactive and strategic guidance and support for organizational planning and development initiatives that align the human resources agenda in support of key business strategies and initiatives
•    Drive an effective client-service HR team that instills company-wide trust and value for the HR function
•    Ensure that strategic human capital goals and initiatives in client groups align as appropriate cross the broader organization
•    Ensure that human resource costs and services are aligned with organizational goals
•    Critical Competencies for Success
•    Relationship Building/Influencing:  Demonstrate effective and appropriate influencing skills with senior management/partners, combining high-level human capital knowledge with deep organizational understanding. Build strong relationships with solid trust and mutual respect as the foundation. Leverage strong judgement skills to make decisions. Instinctively know when and how to introduce change, in such a way that it is broadly accepted and institutionalized
 

Critical Competencies for Success
•    Relationship Building/Influencing:  Demonstrate effective and appropriate influencing skills with senior management/partners, combining high-level human capital knowledge with deep organizational understanding. Build strong relationships with solid trust and mutual respect as the foundation. Leverage strong judgement skills to make decisions. Instinctively know when and how to introduce change, in such a way that it is broadly accepted and institutionalized
 Other Personal Characteristics
•    Strong intellect.  Bright individual, with ability to combine analytical reasoning, creativity and judgement. Quickly study, able to handle complex matters, with multiple initiatives going on simultaneously. Able to deal effectively with strategic issues, as well as tactical operational details
•    Highly Ethical.  Can be trusted to do only the "right thing" for the employees, shareholders, and others. Follows a balanced approach without compromising integrity
•    Values and Leadership.  Demonstrates alignment to Visa's Values (Integrity, Clients, People, Collaboration, innovation and Excellence) and has the capability to lead and motivate a team. Demonstrates commitment to growing and developing internal talent
•    Result Oriented.  Energetic, resourceful, with strong service orientation and positive can-do attitude. Fully committed to the job and to deliver outstanding work. Never satisfied with status-quo, continually striving for excellence. Enjoys working hands-on
•    Change Agent.  Comfortable designing for the future, while managing day-to-day HR matters. Able to anticipate risks and propose practical plans to mitigate them. Appreciates HR's impact and how HR is an integral part of the company's business strategy
•    Low Ego.  Puts needs of the business ahead of him/herself. Operates in a transparent fashion without a personal agenda. Possesses a well-developed sense of humor and listens first
•    Self-starter. Able to challenge the status-quo sensitively and constructively. Intellectually agile, self-confident and highly articulate
 

Qualifications 

•   15+ years of human resources leadership with exposure to an innovative business, one that continues to reinvent their business proposition. Industry is open with a preference for the consumer, financial services or technology industry. Multi-company experience is strongly preferred
•    10+ years of successful business partnership at a divisional/executive level, with proven success in linking HR strategies to the business
•    Experience in a growing global business and positive reputation for working effectively across levels of an organization
•    Proven ability to operate strategically and have a hands-on approach
 

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