Sr Director - Product Management of the Advanced Decisioning Platform

Company Description

Visa is a world leader in digital payments, facilitating more than 215 billion payments transactions between consumers, merchants, financial institutions and government entities across more than 200 countries and territories each year. Our mission is to connect the world through the most innovative, convenient, reliable and secure payments network, enabling individuals, businesses and economies to thrive.

When you join Visa, you join a culture of purpose and belonging – where your growth is priority, your identity is embraced, and the work you do matters. We believe that economies that include everyone everywhere, uplift everyone everywhere. Your work will have a direct impact on billions of people around the world – helping unlock financial access to enable the future of money movement.

Join Visa: A Network Working for Everyone.

Job Description

The Senior Director, Product Management of the Advanced Decisioning Platform will lead, inspire, and motivate a team of Product Managers to enable the development of next generation shared service for risk and identity products for our customers. This will include significant product stakeholder and partner engagement, overseeing organizational strategic planning, budgeting, product design, product delivery & implementation and product line performance management.  The ideal candidate will have a deep background in payments, risk and identity and product management with a proven record of commercializing and scaling products. The successful candidate will have demonstrated ability to grow a multimillion-dollar business line with developers, financial industry, and technology partners.

Essential Functions

• Set vision and demonstrate thought leadership

• Develop a strategy to evolve Visa’s Advanced Decisioning Platform as superset of shared services

• Lower the cost of ownership for duplicate services

• Enable new use cases and accelerate revenue opportunities across the risk and identity solution (RaIS) portfolio

• Drive product strategy and roadmap

• Channel global market requirements and develop a strategic product roadmap in order deliver an industry best in class decisioning platform

• Balance the desire for customization, and point solutions with general market requirements to maximize return on investment, adoption across the Risk and Identity product portfolio

• Ensure all products and services are enabled for simplified boarding and automation to scale and meet business goals

• Drive best practices and establish KPIs to support product adoption, growth and monitor product performance

• Lead the Product Management team

• Set clear goals and expectations to drive optimal business outcomes

• Lead and influence the organization to define and execute a cohesive growth strategy, underpinned by strong business cases, and aligned product investments

• Inspire a strong team of global leaders

• Be entrepreneurial to ensure successful adoption of the platform across Value Added Services product portfolio

• Manage a technical, API driven product platform, in a technically complex environment

• Exhibit technical fluency with peers and product development partners in order to communicate business requirements, features and user stories to ensure success

• Fostering positive relationships with colleagues and influencing across organizational boundaries in a highly matrixed and distributed organization, with clients, and partners

• Act as the primary advocate for the platform across Value Added Services product portfolio

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 2-3 set days a week (determined by leadership/site), with a general guidepost of being in the office 50% or more of the time based on business needs.

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications
- 12 or more years of work experience with a Bachelor’s Degree or at least 10 years of work experience with an Advanced degree (e.g. Masters/MBA /JD/MD), or a minimum of 5 years of work experience with a PhD

Preferred Qualifications
- 15 or more years of experience with a Bachelor’s Degree or 12 years of experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, or MD), PhD with 9+ years of experience
- 10+ years’ product management experience, preferrable in payment technology or risk and fraud management software
- Demonstrated ability to lead by example including setting high standards of performance and ethical behaviors
- Strong communication skills
- Ability to inspire teams, lead executive messaging,