Vice President, Clearing

Visa is seeking a Vice President Clearing role to strengthen executive ownership of the most business-critical regulator-visible components of VisaNet. As Visa scales transaction volume accelerates platform modernization and embeds GenAI across core systems the existing operating model requires additional VP level accountability to safely drive transformation without compromising stability accuracy or trust.

Reporting to the SVP Clearing Settlement and Treasury Services within Payment Products Development (PPD) this VP will operate as a true peer to other PPD platform leaders and as a key execution partner to the CTO agenda.

Essential Functions

EndtoEnd Platform Ownership

• Executive accountability for Clearing platforms that clear and settle hundreds of millions of transactions daily
• Ownership of platform outcomes including financial accuracy settlement timeliness resiliency scalability and regulatory compliance
• Material influence on issuer and acquirer trust Visa brand integrity and revenue execution

GenAI Led Platform Transformation

• Accountability for defining and executing a multiyear GenAI and automation transformation strategy across Clearing  
• Responsibility for applying GenAI in ways that materially improve platform quality operational resilience and execution speed including:
  • Predictive incident detection and prevention
  • Intelligent exception handling and transaction monitoring
  • Automated reconciliation controls and audit readiness

• Responsibility for embedding GenAI across the software development lifecycle including design engineering testing and operations to materially improve platform quality operational resilience and execution speed
• Clear ownership of judgment calls on where GenAI meaningfully adds value versus where deterministic rules based approaches must remain
• Partnership with Architecture Risk Legal and Controls teams to ensure responsible explainable and regulator ready AI adoption

Platform Strategy and Modernization

• Ownership of multi-year modernization roadmaps aligned to VisaNet evolution cloud adoption and service based architectures
• Leadership of complex change across deep legacy platforms and modern stacks with zero tolerance for avoidable operational risk
• Strategic input into enterprise architecture data strategy and platform standardization decisions that affect VisaNet at scale
• Driving the evolution of engineering standards to ensure long-term scalability and excellence

Operations Risk and Regulatory Readiness

• Accountability for 24x7 always on operations with extreme availability and accuracy requirements
• Ownership of production readiness incident management post incident learning audits and regulatory engagements
• Responsibility for operational financial and risk metrics surfaced at Executive Leadership Team Board and regulator levels

People and Leadership

• Leadership of a large globally distributed engineering organization spanning multiple time zones
• Development of strong succession pipelines including leaders with deep platform and GenAI fluency
• Establishment of a culture centered on ownership operational discipline accountability and responsible innovation

• Partner with Product Platform Architecture Treasury Risk and Operations leaders to deliver end-to-end payment processing outcomes
• Translate business regulatory and risk requirements into clear platform strategies and executable plans
• Drive GenAI adoption in ways that are outcome focused measurable and regulator credible
• Lead modernization efforts while actively managing tradeoffs between speed stability and operational risk
• Act as a senior voice in executive forums clearly articulating risk opportunity and platform tradeoffs
• Represent the organization in regulatory discussions audits and critical partner engagements as required

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 experience with an Advanced degree (e.g. Masters/ MBA/JD/MD) or at least 8 years of work experience with a PhD.

Preferred Experience

• 15 years of software engineering experience including senior executive leadership roles

• Proven experience leading large globally distributed engineering organizations (100 engineers)

• Ownership of mission critical regulator visible platforms operating at global scale

• Background in payments financial services or large-scale transaction processing platforms

• Demonstrated experience driving AI enabled or automation led transformation in high-risk operational environments

• Handson experience applying GenAI ML or advanced analytics in production systems

• Strong record of exercising judgment across modernization financial risk and regulatory exposure

• Experience operating within audit intensive highly regulated environments

• History of leading modernization across deeply entrenched legacy platforms

• Ability to engage credibly with SVPs regulators auditors and external partners

U.S. APPLICANTS ONLY:  The estimated salary range for this position is 235700 to 409000 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.

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 261900.00 to 458000.00 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