Analyst, Applied AI Solutions

Visa is a world leader in payments technology, facilitating transactions between consumers, merchants, financial institutions and government entities across more than 200 countries and territories, dedicated to uplifting everyone, everywhere by being the best way to pay and be paid.

At Visa, you'll have the opportunity to create impact at scale — tackling meaningful challenges, growing your skills and seeing your contributions impact lives around the world. Join Visa and do work that matters — to you, to your community, and to the world.

Progress starts with you.

Team background: The North America Executive Office & Initiatives team advances the regional strategic agenda through operational excellence, innovation, and client-centric execution.  

We are hiring two Analysts of Applied AI Solutions to sit within a small, applied AI pod that will embed directly into North America business teams (beginning with Sales and the Executive Office team) to design and deliver practical, high impact AI solutions that improve how work gets done 

Job Description: The Analysts, Applied AI Solutions are hands-on builders responsible for developing internal AI-powered tools, agents, and automations that address real business workflows and repeated manual efforts. These roles focus on rapid solutioning, iterative development, and deployment of AI applications, working closely with the pod lead to deliver high quality, reusable solutions. Success is defined by understanding the target workflow and delivering an effective, durable AI solution that users adopt. Analysts may support documentation, walkthroughs, or light enablement for solutions they build, but their primary responsibility is shipping working AI solutions. 

Key Responsibilities: 

• Serve as the embedded applied AI builder for your assigned team, acting as the primary builder, advisor, and problem-solver for AI-enabled workflow transformation. 

• Translate scoped workflow needs and AI requests into concrete technical solutions using modern AI development workflows. 

• Identify and replace manual or inefficient workflows by designing and building internal AI-powered tools, agents, and automations that integrate with Visa’s systems and ways of working.  

• Iterate quickly on prototypes and solutions based on feedback from the pod lead and end users.  

• Templatize and document solutions to support reuse, maintainability, and scale.  

• Support adoption of delivered solutions by contributing usage documentation, demos, or walkthroughs in partnership with the pod lead.  

• Adhere to established standards for security, quality, and responsible AI usage within Visa environments. 

Please include (1) a clear summary (no more than one paragraph) of why you are interested in doing this work at Visa, and (2) at least 2 examples of shipped GenAI/LLM solutions with tangible artifacts (code, demo, or written walkthrough). Resumes without these two items will NOT be considered, thank you.

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

Basic Qualifications

• 2 or more years of work experience with a Bachelor’s Degree or an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD, or PhD)  

Preferred Qualifications

• 3 or more years of work experience with a Bachelor’s Degree or more than 2 years of work experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD)
• Demonstrated hands-on experience building AI-powered tools, agents, or automations, with fluency in coding and modern AI development workflows.  
• Strong working knowledge of enterprise AI platforms, foundation models, and agent orchestration frameworks, including Microsoft AI solutions (e.g., Microsoft 365 Copilot, Copilot Studio), leading model ecosystems (e.g., Claude, Grok, OpenAI, Gemini), and agentic tooling/platforms (e.g., Claude Cowork, OpenClaw). 
• Working fluency in commonly used programming and scripting languages for AI‑driven tooling and automation (e.g., Python, JavaScript/TypeScript, SQL), with comfort generating, debugging, and iterating on AI-generated code to ship production-ready solutions. 
• Proven ability to translate ambiguous business problems into practical, AI-enabled solutions that improve productivity and execution – meeting the end user’s needs  
• Digitally native mindset with curiosity, speed, and comfort operating in evolving AI toolsets and environments.  
• Ability to work autonomously within an embedded team, building trust with stakeholders and balancing rapid delivery with scalable design.  
• Strong communication skills, with the ability to explain technical concepts clearly to non-technical audiences. 

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 123,000.00 to 190,900.00 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.