Manager, Global Products Strategic Initiatives

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.

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Visa’s Global Products & Initiatives (GP&I) organization is responsible for Visa’s consumer payments product portfolio, including products like Credit, Debit, Visa Flex Credential, and Visa Payment Passkey. We are seeking a Manager on the Strategic Initiatives & Operations team, who will play a critical role in enabling the GP&I organization to deliver against our 2030 goals.

This role will support key strategic initiatives across consumer payments including, but not limited to, affluent, e-commerce, and executing on our Global Product Drop. This is a highly collaborative and strategic role working closely with partners across Product, Strategy, GTM, and Regional teams.

Key Responsibilities:

• Support end-to-end orchestration of Visa’s Global Product Drop including identifying products to feature, creating external narratives, building product demos & coordinating execution across Product, Events, Comms, Marketing and Design
• Support high impact strategy projects and initiatives across GP&I, such as Visa’s global ecommerce roadmap and credit and debit strategy
• Structure and solve business problems, collaborating with a range of internal stakeholders across regions and functions to advance initiatives and ensure alignment
• Inform the development of unique, creative, and impactful products and solutions by integrating insights across Visa’s functional resources
• Develop rigorous, data-backed, quantitative and qualitative analyses to ensure strategic and financial soundness of decisions and recommendations
• Build strong relationships across product, regional, and cross-functional teams

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

Basic Qualifications:

• 5 or more years of relevant work experience with a Bachelors Degree or at least 2 years of work experience with an Advanced degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD) or 0 years of work experience with a PhD

Preferred Qualifications:

• 6 or more years of work experience with a Bachelors Degree or 4 or more years of relevant experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD) or up to 3 years of relevant experience with a PhD
• Background in management consulting, investment banking, product strategy or equivalent
• Experience in and/or significant exposure to the payments, financial services or technology sectors is a plus
• Ability to lead and manage complex, cross-functional projects
• Superior strategic thinking, analytical, and problem-solving skills, with demonstrated intellectual and analytical rigor and attention to detail
• Executive presence and ability to clearly communicate compelling messages to senior stakeholders and external business partners
• Self-starter, team oriented, collaborative, diplomatic, and flexible, with excellent presentation skills, including strong oral and writing capabilities
• Passion for the payments industry and a desire to deliver impactful, customer-centric products and solutions

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 134,600 to 215,300 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.