Senior Manager, Cloud Product Owner

Company Description

Visa is a world leader in payments and technology, with over 259 billion payments transactions flowing safely between consumers, merchants, financial institutions, and government entities in 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 while driven by a common purpose – to uplift everyone, everywhere by being the best way to pay and be paid. 

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Job Description

About Us: Visa’s Acceptance Solutions Professional Services (ASPS) solves problems and accelerates innovation and growth for our merchants, acquirers, issuers, partners, and payment technology providers by providing a range of services including but not limited to technology advisory and consulting, custom development, integration and implementation, technology, and business transformation, developing target state architectures, customer journey mapping, solution development, testing and migration.

Position Overview: We are looking for a passionate, dynamic and customer focused Cloud Technical Product Owner to join our Professional Services team. The candidate should have a strong technical background in cloud platforms and cloud data domains, should be a thought leader, have exceptional organizational skills, written and verbal communication skills and be an analytical and structured thinker. 

The right candidate should possess a strong Cloud Technical Product Management background, with demonstrated expertise in contributing to medium to large cross-functional projects. We are looking for candidates who have demonstrated excellence as Technical Product Manager in the payments, cloud solutions, data solutions, internet, or related industries. The successful candidate must be a hands-on person with proven ability to engage in high bandwidth conversations with both business and technology executives.

Key Responsibilities:

To be successful in this position, this individual must be highly effective working both independently and in cross-functional capacities to identify, define, analyze, prioritize, and refine technology requirements, facilitate, develop, and deliver roadmaps for our client engagements around cloud services and solutions.

Successful candidates will be skilled at forging strong partnerships with business sponsors, product managers, solution architects, and developers to define feature sets, story maps, detailed user stories (functional and non-functional) to support the development process. This function will address bottlenecks, provide escalation management, anticipate, and make tradeoffs, balance the business needs versus technical constraints to maximize business benefit.

Beyond the design and planning stages of the development lifecycle, strong Agile expertise is required to collaborate with Scrum teams and communicate requirements to development teams for execution and implementation.

This role will also help define the roadmap priorities and ensure that it remains aligned with the Client’s broader strategy and priorities. This individual will foster innovation, collaboration, leverage new technologies and champion impactful change to build Visa's technology brand through internal and external initiatives.

• Primary responsibilities are to define user stories, create and manage a product backlog.

• Ensures user stories meet the definition of ready criteria and have well defined acceptance criteria.

• Be hands-on with describing business rules as technical artifacts for analysts, business product managers, and any functional team that depends on this information.

• Discuss technical implementation details with architects, developers, and other technical teams.

• Synthesize requirements into a common set of platform and services capabilities.

• Candidates will be responsible for value proposition definition, communications across technical, business and product functions, cost/benefit analysis, and executive presentations.

• Define product requirements which involve writing clear, thorough, and detailed user stories for complex features and product sets.

• Partner with scrum masters in sprint team ceremonies including daily stand ups, planning sessions with squads and work with the team to decompose stories into development tasks.

• Prioritize the work for multiple agile IT development teams.

• Participate in daily scrum meetings for the teams executing on projects being driven.

• Work very closely with development and QA organization as a Prod