Director - Technical Product Management

  • Full-time
  • Job Family Group: Technology and Operations

Company Description

Visa is a world leader in digital payments, facilitating more than 215 billion payments transactions between consumers, merchants, financial institutions and government entities across more than 200 countries and territories each year. Our mission is to connect the world through the most innovative, convenient, reliable and secure payments network, enabling individuals, businesses and economies to thrive.

When you join Visa, you join a culture of purpose and belonging – where your growth is priority, your identity is embraced, and the work you do matters. We believe that economies that include everyone everywhere, uplift everyone everywhere. Your work will have a direct impact on billions of people around the world – helping unlock financial access to enable the future of money movement.

Join Visa: A Network Working for Everyone.

Job Description

Visa Technical Product Management team is looking for a seasoned Technical Product Manager to advance development of Middleware Services, Database Services and Infrastructure Security Management. The individual will work with variety of stakeholders such as cloud platform developers, solution architects, and product developers to tactfully enable feature set that provides self-service secure, large scale, and reliable web, middleware, and data services  for Visa product development teams.  Objective is to drive standardization across these areas with a goal towards achieving higher efficiency and to reduce TCO for product development teams

Being the largest payments network, Visa systems process enormous amount of data and API calls and requires our systems to be horizontally scalable and resilient. This product manager will be required to think at a big scale, to create requirements to support Visa's high-throughput applications.

This role will require defining and maintaining a point-in-time 18-month roadmap for the cloud platform and guide other senior product managers to focus on strategic initiatives.

Essential Functions

  • Ensure that technical and operational requirements are achievable and being satisfied with the proposed technologies
  • Adapt development methodologies appropriate to different stages/maturities of a product's lifecycle
  • Actively help prioritize deliverables for development teams
  • Support DevOps operations by integrating developed IaC into CICD pipeline builds
  • Develop documentation utilizing standardized templates such as Installation and Configuration Guides, design and engineering plans
  • Contribute to robust business cases and optimized product investments through review, analysis and challenge to ensure business assumptions are valid
  • Champion enterprise and product specific strategic directions, including pricing strategy
  • Create strategic alliances with relevant stakeholders across organization to make communication seamless across product development process
  • Partner with operations and development teams to lead Compliance and Security Life Cycle Management in the product roadmap
  • Coach others to identify long-term opportunities for product development in response to user behavior
  • Be a thought leader on how Visa should build future-focused product's both regionally and globally, within Visa's competitive landscape
  • Anticipate and identify changing technical knowledge needs based on changes in the business, the payments industry trends, and emerging technologies
  • Familiar with the level of security, privacy, compliance and associated risk-management considerations required to build highly trustworthy and reliable internet-based financial applications. Knowledge of PCI DSS Level 2 requirements desired

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications

  • 10-12 years of experience in Software Engineering or Technical Product Management with a bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or Information Technology
    • Experience architecting and designing large scale distributed systems
    • 5 years' experience in product management of cloud computing platforms, and delivering solutions on PaaS platforms
    • Ability to articulate your deep understanding of benefits/drawbacks of different solutions
  • Strong influence, advocacy and communication skills required as you will be interacting regularly with executive leadership across Visa as externally with clients and partners Empathetic, kind, and mindful of not just your perspective but also what matters to customers, stakeholders and partner teams

Preferred Qualifications

  • Possess strong diplomacy skills and fosters goodwill between different groups and functions, exhibiting a "one company" mindset
  • Experience in building infrastructure and platform products for Payments Processing systems
  • Deeper knowledge of PCI DSS Compliance considerations for payment systems
  • Experience with data at rest, transit, and other security and privacy considerations
  • Strong experience working with private cloud environments running vSphere and Windows workloads
  • Strong experience working with cloud native environments using Kubernetes
  • Ability to influence development teams and senior stakeholders to gain support for delivering product solutions against a standardized methodology

Additional Information

Visa is an EEO Employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability or protected veteran status. Visa will also consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with EEOC guidelines and applicable local law.
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