Senior Director, Product Development & Management – Visa Direct Sponsored Model

Visa is searching for the Senior Director for Visa Direct Product Sponsored Model. This leader plays a crucial role in driving efficiency and growth in Visa Direct and will have endtoend accountability for product development and management including identifying and prioritizing ideas discovery inception implementation product launch post launch enhancements pivots and sunsetting products and features. They are responsible for setting the vision strategy and managing roadmap and backlog for their product and establishing Visa as a trend setter in the real time payment industry. This role can have product leaders and product managers reporting to them

To deliver on these objectives this role requires deep collaboration across the entire enterprise. The Senior Director of Product will work closely with internal and external stakeholders including technology sales and account management solutioning operations compliance and other teams across Visa as well as external vendors industry groups and regulatory bodies.

Responsibilities

So what do we expect of you day to day

• Stay up to speed with the latest developments and trends in the FX brokers payments and embedded banking industry and identify emerging opportunities and threats for Visa Direct.
• Provide thought leadership and drive strategic conversations for the suite of Sponsored model within Visa Direct family with appreciation to commercial risk regulatory build and operational angles.
• Drive product lifecycle from ideation to launch enhancement and sunset collaborating with Market Strategy Technology Operations Risk Regulatory Legal Finance and Network functions.

Ensure consistent execution of product plans that result in ontime and onbudget product delivery.

• Create an environment that fosters a relentless focus on customer and market needs. Define and monitor metrics for the products launched build broad buyin with persuasive datadriven analysis of product usage and customer needs and drive continuous product
• Develop and grow a highperforming team with deep industry knowledge and expertise lead and coach a team of product managers to solve challenging customer and market problems.
• Champion Visa values across the organization. Act as an ambassador to attract worldclass and diverse talent in the market whilst developing internal talent that will help Visa thrive.

This is a hybrid position. Expectation of days in office will be confirmed by your Hiring Manager.

Qualifications :

• The ideal candidate will bring solid experience in product development with a track record of developing and improving products in regulated payments or financial services sectors. Embedded banking or neobanks / payment wallet experience highly beneficial.
• They possess a deep expertise in the fintech particularly payment accounts and cross border payments with appreciation to the evolving global regulations and user expectations competitive dynamics and technological advancements.
• They are fluent in both commercial angle of the products defining value proposition and overarching strategy as well as operational and technical details of developing products. They have appreciation of the endtoend capabilities required to bring successful products to market and can drive efficient prioritization understanding dependencies and organizational needs end to end.
• They have experience of building and leading successful team of product managers.
• The ideal candidate has experience of working in a large matrixed organization. They should be a natural collaborator with excellent communication skills and strong executive presence. S/he will be comfortable with ambiguity possessing the maturity and capability to interact and influence across multiple levels of the organization internal and external to Visa.

Key Capabilities

• Strategic thinker: Has superior strategic and analytic skills and is capable of clearly communicating a longterm vision to his/her team the Company and Visas clients. Ability to forecast plan execute on various initiatives across different time horizons.
• Communication: Excellent communication presentation and storytelling skills with the ability to articulate complex and technical concepts to a variety of audiences and to influence and persuade senior stakeholders.
• Client Focus: Cultivates partnerships with current and potential customers across the payments ecosystem. Understands the current industry and can link potential client needs to future product development initiatives. Strong presence and engagement with clients.
• Team Leadership: Identify develop and lead a team of product specialists through effective people management and development programs in accordance with Visa values and practices. Foster an inclusive team culture that is collaborative and inquisitive developing bench strength and planning for succession while able to make tough decisions when required.
• Influence and Relationship Building: Exhibit relevant and consistent leadership behaviors in team management and internal interactions with peers senior management clients and thirdparty vendors. Work effectively across a global matrix organization.
• Champion for Talent: Engenders trust as a leader internally & externally championing the Visa brand for highpotential and diverse talent. Continually seeks diverse perspectives and creates an inclusive environment for collaboration through the region and Visas organization.

Personal Characteristics

• An intellectually curious but humble leader with a high degree of compassion able to engage enable and inspire others.
• Owner mindset creative and resourceful in overcoming barriers and unexpected roadblocks. Courageous in spirit driving change through collaboration and innovation.
• A handson approach to all activities with real passion and high levels of energy. Agile and comfortable adapting to different environments.
• Possesses high personal standards of ethics and integrity towards employees stakeholders and customers. An authentic leader who intuitively engenders an inclusive environment enabling the business to reach its goals.
• Diversity of thought and experience. Continually seeks new perspectives and feedback takes an inclusive approach and engages diverse points of view.
• High levels of learningagility with a real interest in the payment ecosystem and a technology / digitalfirst approach.
• Entrepreneurial and comfortable with ambiguous and changeled environments selfconfident with an authentic style that gravitates to championing change.
• Eager to seek a challenge and expand frontiers brings a visionary approach. Sets and meets a high bar of goals and principles.
• Committed to building a community through Visas Leadership Principles.

o Lead Courageously
o Obsess about Customers
o Collaborate as One Visa
o Execute with Excellence 

Additional information

• Role is full time and based in London.
• This position requires travel 10% of the time.
   

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.

Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Fulltime