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, truly disrupting cash and check based payments. 

Visa’s sponsorships, including the Olympics and FIFATM 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. 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.

The Consumer Product Architecture organization at Visa team imagines and builds the APIs and services that power the next generation of digital-first Visa account products. Accounts who’s features, rewards and benefits evolve with the lifestages and financial needs of carholders. We also power alerts services and personal card controls that empower visa cardholders to dynamically manage their transactions and where their accounts can be used.

Join our team and find out how Visa is everywhere you want to be.

As the Senior Director of the Fintech Product Architecture team, you will lead a product initiative to enable international fintechs, leading-edge banks and emerging market mobile wallets to create, issue and process Visa cards.

You will need to build and lead a team that combines expertise across multiple domains including modern, developer-friendly api design, bank/credit program management and tokenized digital card processing. Your solutions stacks will integrate components both new and existing apis from across Visa. As well, you will be designing an open framework to allow partner platforms to provide important processing, settlement and other supporting services.  Furthermore, you will need to design a scalable platform that can be effectively commercialize across many geographies, allowing for local regulatory and payment market dynamics.

You will be comfortable defining and leading a product development process that suits the problems to be solved (Agile, Lean, user-centered design etc). You will be testing assumptions, resolving uncertainties and establishing strong product-market fit. This process will include early prototyping and gathering continuous iterative feedback from prospective clients, stakeholders and solution partners.

You will be managing both a direct product team as well as an extended tiger team of contributing product owners from other business units across Visa. When successful, you will be creating win-win opportunities to significantly grow Visa’s extended digital and processing businesses as well   

You have a “product ownership” attitude and be ready to do whatever it takes to integrate teams together for product launch and support. You are curious, not afraid of problems or domain areas you don’t know the answers to yet.

• Curious problem solver with a solution-oriented mindset,
• Empathetic, kind, and mindful of not just your perspective but also what matters to customers, stakeholders and partner teams
• Passionate about getting things done and shipping product
• Opinionated about good software service development methodologies, developer engagement and modern, restful API architectures
• Experience adapting development methodologies appropriate to different stages/maturities of a product’s lifecycle
• Willingness to travel internationally, up to 25%
• Strong influence, advocacy and communication skills required as you will be interacting regularly with executive leadership across Visa as externally with clients and partners   
• Technical Degree in CS/Engineering or demonstrated equivalent technical expertise through past experience
• Leadership experience in any related field such as: SaaS services, fintech, banking services/payments, mobile banking apps, card issuing/processing, credit/debit or prepaid card programs, payment networks
• Experience with issuer card processing a plus
• Familiar with the level of security, privacy, compliance and associated risk-management considerations required to build highly trustworthy and reliable internet-based financial applications
• Excited to work on apis and services that could enable global financial inclusion and more convenient, reliable payment services for hundreds of millions of people around the world

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