Director, Skills Strategy & Execution (Skills COE Lead)

Are you a designer builder and change agent  Are you passionate about creating a high-performance growth culture  Are you motivated by a diverse and inclusive environment that unleashes the potential in everyone everywhere  

Come join the Global Talent team as we help write a new story for Visa and reimagine the world of work. 
We are seeking an experienced Director of Skills Strategy & Execution to lead an enterprise Skills Center of Excellence (COE). Reporting to the Vice President of Organization Design and part of our wider Global Talent team this leader will architect and operationalize a companywide shift to a skillsbased talent model in support of our Visa 2030 strategy. The Director will play a key role in shaping our organizations future by designing the frameworks governance and organizational mechanisms needed to deploy the right talent to the right work at the right time - and accelerating Visas productivity agility and employee career journeys.

The successful candidate will be responsible for driving overall strategy and partnering with a wide range of People Team business and technology stakeholders to design skills solutions that suit Visas growth and needs.

We are looking for passion strategic thinking and strong collaborators as well as subjectmatter expertise in designing and implementing skills-based approaches and strong Workday Skills experience to facilitate configuration governance and implementation of an integrated skills technology platform.

Looking further ahead the role will drive the embedding of skills into employee usage and mobility business leader intelligence and resourcing core talent processes and strategic workforce planning to drive the maximum impact and outcomes for our business and our people.

Key Responsibilities

Enterprise Strategy Architecture & Execution

• Serve as the primary enterprise architect and thought partner for designing and delivering the companys endtoend skills strategy.
• Advise senior leaders on integrating a skills lens into workforce planning talent acquisition upskilling mobility and career development.
• Serve as project owner for the enterprise skills roadmapincluding data governance deployment timelines skills ontologies and user experience.
• Champion the transition to skillscentric practices across the organization collaborating with and influencing leaders HR teams and functional stakeholders to seamlessly embed skills capabilities and tools across the full employee lifecyclefrom hiring to performance to development globally and regionally.

• Design and execute enterprise skills programs taxonomies and capability frameworks aligned to strategic business priorities partnering with wider teams to drive adoption and alignment to enterprise goals.
• Lead crossfunctional teams and working groups to deliver skillsrelated initiatives identifying risks early and driving issue resolution.
• Maintain expertise in external skills technologies AI/MLdriven skills intelligence and futureofwork trends; translate insights into actionable recommendations.
• Foster a culture of experimentation and iteration ensuring programs continuously evolve based on business needs and user feedback.

Technology Design & Enablement

• Serve as the enterprise SME for Workday Skillsguiding configuration governance skills inference models mapping and data integrity.
• Partner with People Systems and People Technology to optimize interoperability between Workday Degreed and adjacent talent systems.
• Coordinate strategy and integration for Degreed Skills ensuring the platform drives meaningful skills insights personalization and curated development experiences.
• Build governance models taxonomies and update processes to ensure highquality reliable enterprise skills data.
• Use platform analytics and insights to inform workforce planning mobility recommendations and targeted upskilling pathways to dynamically match talent to priority work improving speedtoskill and organizational productivity.

• Foster a culture of experimentation and iteration ensuring programs continuously evolve based on business needs and user feedback.

As a Director in Skills Strategy & Execution you will play a crucial role in shaping our organizations future. If you are a collaborative and strategic thinker with a passion for skills transformation we would love to hear from you.

Qualifications :

Basic Qualifications

• 10 or more years of work experience with a Bachelors Degree or at least 8 years of work experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters/ MBA/JD/MD) or at least 3 years of work experience with a PhD

Preferred Qualifications

• 10-12 years of work experience with a Bachelors Degree or 8-10 years of experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters MBA JD MD) or 6 years of work experience with a PhD
• Proven progressive experience in a skills SME / talent transformation leadership role.
• Strong understanding of skills trends strategies methods and tools and experience optimizing systems processes and workflows.
• Handson expertise implementing and governing Workday Skills in a complex global environment.
• Proven track record of successfully implementing large-scale skills change initiatives with strong project management skills and demonstrated ability to lead complex cross-functional initiatives across a range of stakeholders.
• Strong decisionmaking problemsolving and communication / influencing skills including the ability to partner with senior and executive leaders.
• Strong long-term strategic thinking problem-solving and decision-making abilities.
• Ability to navigate ambiguity manage multiple enterpriselevel workstreams and lead crossfunctional teams.
• Experience in job architecture including design and implementation.
• Excellent interpersonal and collaboration skills to operate effectively in a highly matrixed environment with test and learn and continuous improvement mindset that embraces creativity agility and comfort operating in fastchanging environments.

Additional Information :

Travel & Physical Requirements

• This is a hybrid position. Hybrid employees can alternate time between both remote and office. Employees in hybrid roles are expected to work from the office 3 set days a week (determined by leadership/site).
• This position requires the incumbent to travel for work 5% of the time.
• 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 and reach with hands and arms.

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.

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 152900.00 to 216000.00 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 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