Senior Director - AI Solutions and Emerging Technology

Visa AI as a Service (VAIaS) operationalizes the delivery of AI and decision intelligence to ensure their ongoing business values. Built with composable AI capabilities privacyenhancing computation and cloud native platforms VAIaS automates the updates to data models and applications. Combined with strong AI governance VAIaS optimizes the performance scalability interpretability and reliability of AI models and services. If you want to be in the exciting payment and AI space learn fast and make big impacts Visa AI as a Service is an ideal place for you!

Our team needs a Senior Director with strong Data and Machine Learning System development and operations experience who will contribute to both strategic and tactic planning and execution to continuously advance AI Platforms vision and mission. In this position you are first a hardworking and versatile data engineering leader that can work in a multifaceted environment as a member of Agile scrum teams.

You will be an integral part of the leadership team setting up technical roadmap introducing the latest machine learning and system technology to the team working with development managers and teams to identify and resolve technical challenges and working with different products and data science teams to streamline the feature request and model onboarding.

Essential Functions

• Provide leadership and direction to the team with the latest data science and applied artificial intelligence techniques.

• Lead and strengthen a team of engineers to design and build ML infrastructure and AI products services.

• Collaborate with project teams data science teams and other development teams to drive the technical roadmap and guide development and implementation of new data driven business solutions.

• Drive technical standard and best practices in ML and data engineering and continuously improve AIaS engineering scalability.

• Coordinate the implementation among development teams to ensure system performance security scalability and availability.

• Coaching and mentoring junior team members and evolving team talent pipeline.

This position will be based in Foster City CA or Austin TX. If this sounds exciting we want to chat and tell you more about our work culture and environment and see if this will be a good fit for both of us.

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

Qualifications :

Basic Qualifications:

• 12 or more years of work experience with a Bachelors Degree or at least 10 years of work experience with an Advanced degree (e.g. Masters/MBA /JD/MD) or a minimum of 5 years of work experience with a PhD.

Preferred Qualifications:

• 15 or more years of experience with a Bachelors Degree or 12 years of experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters MBA JD or MD) PhD with 9 years of experience
• Masters PhD in Computer Science or related technical discipline
• 15 years of experience with leading and architecting largescale distributed infrastructure systems.
• Experience working with Data and AI designing and building ML infrastructure to train or serve models.
• Experience with building out AI Products end to end from model building to revenue generation phase/ products and services. 
• Strong sense of ownership urgency and leadership abilities in an engineering environment in driving operational excellence and standard methodologies.
• Experience working on large opensource projects preferably in the ML infrastructure domain like TensorFlow Ray JAX PyTorch Horovod.
• Solid understanding of networking Linux Docker databases Hadoop Hive Spark etc.
• Experience developing proper metrics instrumentation in software components to help facilitate realtime and remote troubleshooting/performance monitoring.

Additional Information :

Work Hours: Varies upon the needs of the department.

Travel Requirements: This position requires travel 510% 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.

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.

Visa will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with applicable local law including the requirements of Article 49 of the San Francisco Police Code.

U.S. APPLICANTS ONLY: The estimated salary range for a new hire into this position is $204200 to $354500 USD per year which may include potential sales incentive payments (if applicable). Salary may vary depending on jobrelated factors which may include knowledge skills experience and location. In addition this position may be eligible for bonus and equity. Visa has a comprehensive benefits package for which this position may be eligible that includes Medical Dental Vision 401 (k) FSA/HSA Life Insurance Paid Time Off and Wellness Program.

Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Fulltime