As the world's leader in digital payments technology, Visa's mission is to connect the world through the most creative, reliable and secure payment network - enabling individuals, businesses, and economies to thrive. Our advanced global processing network, VisaNet, provides secure and reliable payments around the world, and is capable of handling more than 65,000 transaction messages a second. The company's dedication to innovation drives the rapid growth of connected commerce on any device, and fuels the dream of a cashless future for everyone, everywhere. As the world moves from analog to digital, Visa is applying our brand, products, people, network and scale to reshape the future of commerce.

At Visa, your individuality fits right in. Working here gives you an opportunity to impact the world, invest in your career growth, and be part of an inclusive and diverse workplace. We are a global team of disruptors, trailblazers, innovators and risk-takers who are helping drive economic growth in even the most remote parts of the world, creatively moving the industry forward, and doing meaningful work that brings financial literacy and digital commerce to millions of unbanked and underserved consumers.

You're an Individual. We're the team for you. Together, let's transform the way the world pays.

The Sr. Product Manager will engage in processing initiatives with focus on network-based solutions for business opportunities and regulatory requirements. We are looking for motivated individuals who can provide thought leadership in uncertain and undefined environments, provide high impact to the organization and flawless execution.

This is an individual contributor role in the Network Initiatives and Strategy team. Our team is reshaping network processing to make it more forward looking by introducing new capabilities supported by machine learning and artificial intelligence. The role will be anchored in Foster City, but may require occasional domestic/international travel to work collaboratively with in-market teams.

General Requirements:

• You internalize and deeply understand Visa’s mission and strategies.
• A “driver” personality – Being incredibly truth seeking, you constantly push toward clarity and delivery while balancing the need for great collaboration.
• Grittiness. You never hesitate to roll up your sleeves and tackle something hands-on, you persevere when others fall away.
• User-centricity - You powere through challenges because you were unwilling to make hurdles your users’ problems.
• You will manage one or more business initiatives, gather requirements, drive execution with laser-focused quality, develop a long-term vision for AI based processing solutions.
• You will have strong desire to lead and effectively manage business problems by synthesizing complex and often incomplete information, while working with cross-functional teams consisting of individuals from Product, Strategy, Engineering and/or Legal.
• You will develop frameworks, approaches, solutions and recommendations through situation analysis of the challenges that effectively and efficiently address the most impactful opportunities and challenges.
• You will bridge the gap between business and technology and partner with peers in other functional areas and across global/regional teams in developing an understanding of the competitive landscape and consolidating country and/or client feedback to reach key decisions
• You will produce insights and analyses to improve performance, drive understanding of issues and provide strategic guidance for new initiatives
• You will be a subject matter expert, providing knowledge sharing, mentoring and training

Essential Functions

We are looking for someone with a worldview, a technologist’s attention to detail, a business owner’s approach, an entrepreneur’s creative thinking and a real passion for the payments. A sense of adventure and the ability to immerse themselves in brand new environments with every new assignment will be critical to success.

Basic Qualifications

4 years of work experience with a Bachelor’s Degree or at least 2 years of work experience with an Advanced degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD) or 0 years of work experience with a PhD degree

Preferred Qualifications

• Undergraduate degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or similar quantitative field required. MS, PhD, or MBA optional.
• 5 to 7 years of progressively more responsible business experience in electronic payment domain
• Prior experience with Merchant Services and/or managing Merchant facing product is a plus
• Good understanding of APIs and experience with exposing products/services via API is a plus
• Strategic thinker who can balance big picture strategy and flawless execution with high attention to detail and quality for all work products
• Multi-functional project management and strategy development skills and experiences; ability to manage deliverables and to coordinate, work productively with, and demonstrate results to other Visa divisions
• Crisp interpersonal and executive verbal/written communication skills.
• Interest in building new Products, grounded in invention and innovation.

Work Hours
Incumbent must make themselves available during core business hours and support ocassional meetings to support our business globally.

Travel Requirements
This position requires the incumbent to travel for work upto 10% of the time.

Mental/Physical Requirements

This position will be performed in an office setting.  The position will require the incumbent to sit and stand at a desk, communicate in person and by telephone, frequently operate standard office equipment, such as telephones and computers, reach with hands and arms, and bend or lift up to 25 pounds

Visa will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with EEOC guidelines and applicable local law.