Lead Technical Program Manager
Lead Technical Program Manager
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Overview:
The Digital Enablement team at Visa is hiring experienced Technical Program Managers (TPMs) to build and deliver advanced services and capabilities for Visas customers. TPMs work closely with product management and software engineering leaders to define plan and prepare high-quality solutions for successful delivery. TPMs provide structure and leadership in the early stages of the product lifecycle ensuring business needs are clearly understood and translated into actionable requirements.
Key responsibilities:
- Business enablement: Engage with product managers and key stakeholders to understand business problems objectives and timelines. Shape product concepts and work with product and engineering teams to identify strategic approaches and solution options. Ensure business needs are clearly articulated prioritized and aligned with strategic goals.
- Problem statements and success criteria: Create high-quality problem statements that concisely define the issue context scope and impact. Define measurable business success criteria for every initiative. Build shared understanding among stakeholders to ensure alignment before engineering work begins.
- Product and solution definition: Collaborate with product management and engineering to translate business needs into clear requirements and high-level solution options including data flows and system interactions. Ensure requirements are complete actionable and understood by all stakeholders.
- Planning: Lead planning activities to ensure features and initiatives are well-defined prioritized feasible and ready for engineering teams to estimate and execute.
- User experience: Partner with UX/UI designers and engineers to define intuitive and engaging user experiences that address customer needs.
- Backlog management: Own and manage the product backlog including prioritization definition and refinement of epics and features. Ensure the product backlog is clear unambiguous and complete providing engineering with the information needed to confidently estimate and plan the next sprint.
- Technical expertise: Develop a deep understanding of the products technical architecture and proposed designs to validate that solutions meet business needs define work in alignment with technical realities anticipate dependencies and assess the impact of proposed plans.
- Engineering improvements: Provide leadership on shift-left goals such as automation AI adoption security and quality. Collaborate with engineering to drive initiatives that improve engineering planning accuracy velocity metrics and product health.
- Dependency and risk management: Identify and document dependencies and risks early in the process. Coordinate with relevant teams to resolve issues and mitigate risks before work begins.
- Stakeholder communication: Facilitate transparent regular communication to manage stakeholder expectations. Ensure all teams are informed about requirements plans and status.
- Expectation management: Align engineering plans with business expectations and proactively manage those expectations to reflect what is achievable.
This is a hybrid position. Expectation of days in office will be confirmed by your hiring manager.
Qualifications :
Basic Qualifications
- 10 years of relevant work experience with a Bachelors Degree or at least 7 years of work experience with an Advanced degree (e.g. Masters MBA JD MD) or 4 years of work experience with a PhD OR 13 years of relevant work experience.
Preferred Qualifications
- 5 or more years of experience in technical program management product management or engineering leadership delivering software or platform solutions from concept through launch.
- Proven ability to translate business needs into actionable technical requirements workflows and system interaction diagrams.
- Hands-on experience in at least one relevant domain: AI/ML data science UX/UI native mobile (iOS/Android) cloud/hybrid infrastructure cloud-native technologies Kubernetes DevOps/automation or analytics dashboards.
Demonstrated success managing product backlogs epics and user stories in agile tools such as Jira and Confluence.
- Experience leading cross-functional planning dependency mapping and risk mitigation for complex multi-team initiatives.
- Strong stakeholder communication skills with a track record of aligning engineering deliverables to business goals
- Payments or fintech industry knowledge preferred.
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 :
Full-time
Employment Type
Full-time
