Sr. Product Manager Data Platform & Products

The Visa Acceptance Platform team is seeking a Senior Product Manager to join the Acceptance Data Platform & Analytics organization. This team builds and operates a modern cloudnative data platform that enables Visa Acceptance products and domains to own manage and scale their data and analytics capabilities while leveraging shared platform services for consistency governance and operational efficiency.

The Acceptance Data Platform serves as the foundational layer for analytics reporting KPIs and downstream intelligence across Acceptance products. While the platform increasingly supports AIenabled use cases this role is first and foremost focused on data platform capabilitiesincluding data ingestion modeling metrics standardization APIs governance and analytics enablement at scale.

We are looking for a Senior Product Manager with strong data platform and analytics expertise who can partner deeply with data engineering and platform teams to deliver reliable governed and reusable data capabilities that power decisionmaking across the Acceptance ecosystem.

What You Will Do:

In this role you will own the vision strategy and execution of the Acceptance Data Platform ensuring it provides scalable reliable and wellgoverned data foundations for analytics and reporting across Visa Acceptance products. You will work closely with data engineering architecture and analytics teams to define and prioritize cloudnative data platform capabilities such as data ingestion modeling KPI and metrics standardization APIs and governance while balancing domain flexibility with enterprise standards. You will enable consistent trusted analytics and selfservice reporting for product teams operational users and leadership and ensure the platform scales efficiently with strong performance and cost controls. As a secondary focus you will ensure the data platform is AIready by delivering highquality wellmodeled data and standardized metrics that can be safely consumed by machine learning and AI platforms. Throughout you will drive crossfunctional delivery measure success through adoption and data quality metrics and continuously improve the platform based on telemetry and stakeholder feedback

How the Day-to-Day Work Looks Like:

In this role your daytoday work centers on building and evolving the Acceptance Data Platform that powers analytics reporting and downstream intelligence across Visa Acceptance solutions. You operate at the intersection of product strategy data platforms analytics and enablement ensuring the foundation is scalable governed and trusted.

On a typical day you will:

• Work closely with data engineering and platform teams to define and prioritize core data platform capabilitiessuch as ingestion storage data modeling KPI standardization APIs and reporting frameworksbalancing scalability performance cost and governance.
• Translate complex platform and analytics needs into clear product requirements maintaining a wellprioritized backlog that engineering teams can execute against with confidence.
• Review and validate data schemas KPI definitions and analytics designs to ensure metrics are consistent reusable and trusted across Acceptance products.
• Partner with domain product teams and analytics consumers to understand how data is used today identify gaps or duplication and introduce shared platform capabilities that accelerate delivery and reduce fragmentation.
• Guide the evolution of analytics and reporting experiences ensuring dashboards APIs and selfservice tools are built on standardized data and platformdefined metrics rather than oneoff implementations.
• Collaborate with architecture security privacy and governance teams to ensure data platform capabilities meet compliance quality and auditability requirements without slowing innovation.
• Enrich and strengthen the Acceptance Solutions Machine Learning Platform (MLP) and Artificial Intelligence Platform (AIP) by:
  • Ensuring highquality wellmodeled and wellgoverned data is available as input for models and AI workflows
  • Driving alignment between data platform capabilities and MLP/AIP requirements for feature consistency reproducibility and operational readiness
  • Partnering with ML and AI teams to identify platform improvements that simplify model training deployment and consumptionwithout shifting ownership of model logic into the data platform
• Use platform telemetry adoption metrics and stakeholder feedback to continuously refine priorities and guide roadmap decisions.
• Participate in agile delivery rituals to ensure predictable highquality execution across multiple engineering teams.
• Communicate platform progress tradeoffs and outcomes clearly to stakeholders and leadership reinforcing trust in the data and analytics foundation.

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

Qualifications :

Required 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

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
• Degree in Computer Science Engineering Information Systems or a related field
• Experience in Payment Processing domain
• Proven experience owning and delivering complex data platform or analytics products
• Hands on experience with cloud native data platforms (e.g. Amazon S3 Databricks ClickHouse or similar)
• Familiarity with data mesh concepts federated governance or domain oriented data ownership
• Experience building platform products consumed by multiple internal teams
• Exposure to AI enabled analytics or ML use cases (as a consumer of data platforms not as a core focus)
• Experience working in large scale regulated enterprise environments

Strong understanding of:

• Data modeling schemas and metrics design
• Analytics and reporting platforms
• How data quality and governance impact downstream use cases
• Ability to partner effectively with senior data engineering and platform teams
• Excellent communication problem solving and decision making skills in complex ambiguous environments

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 this position is 152200.00 to 243700.00 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