Sr. Manager, Data Science

To ensure that Visas payment technology is truly available to everyone everywhere requires the success of our key bank or merchant partners and internal business units. The Global Data Science group supports these partners by using our extraordinarily rich data set that spans more than 3 billion cards globally and captures more than 100 billion transactions in a single year. Our focus lies on building creative solutions that have an immediate impact on the business of our highly analytical partners. We work in complementary teams comprising members from Data Science and various groups at Visa. To support our rapidly growing group we are looking for Data Scientists who are equally passionate about the opportunity to use Visas rich data to tackle meaningful business problems.

Essential Functions

• Lead a team of analysts within North American Data Science including project oversight coaching and professional development

• Work with internal/external clients to understand their strategic business questions and lead project scoping/design to answer those questions by leveraging Visas data

• Develop propensity segmentation and other predictive models to drive business impact

• Proactively engage with clients and Visa client leadership in regular strategic & planning discussions cultivate and manage a pipeline of work with clients

• Develop frameworks approaches solutions and recommendations that effectively and efficiently address the most impactful opportunities and challenges.

• Produce insights and analyses to improve client performance drive understanding of client issues and provide strategic guidance for client priorities across the payment P&L

• Ideal candidate will have payments and management consulting experience.

• Broad knowledge across the entire data science lifecycle including data engineering statistics and governance

• Provide guidance in modern analytic techniques and business applications to unlock the value of Visas unique data set in keeping with market trends client needs and emerging techniques

• Organize and manage multiple data science projects with diverse cross-functional stakeholders

• Ability to influence and negotiate with senior executives

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

Qualifications :

Basic Qualifications

• 8 or more years of relevant work experience with a Bachelor Degree or at least 5 years of experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters MBA JD MD) or 2 years of work experience with a PhD
• Experience leading teams of data scientists in machine learning projects
• Hands-on expertise with modern distributed systems including both Hadoop/SQL and Apache Spark
• Hands-on expertise with one or more data analytics/programming tools such as Python
• Hands-on expertise in the application of predictive modeling and machine learning techniques

Preferred Qualifications

• 9 or more years of relevant work experience with a Bachelor Degree or 7 or more relevant years of experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters MBA JD MD) or 3 or more years of experience with a PhD
• 3 years of working in payments industry (bank credit union Fintech) or management-consulting firm
• Demonstrated knowledge of software development MLOps or data product development
• Excellent communication story-telling and presentation skills.
• Competence in Excel PowerPoint and Tableau

Additional Information :

Work Hours: Varies upon the needs of the department.

Travel Requirements: This position requires travel 5-10% 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.

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 148300.00 to 215250.00 USD per year which may include potential sales incentive payments (if applicable). Salary may vary depending on job-related 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 :

Full-time