Staff Design Researcher-Visa Commercial Solutions

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

Visa Global Product Design is seeking an experienced Staff Design Researcher with expertise in qualitative user research that drives leading-edge product design. This Staff Design Researcher will be a senior-level individual contributor who will have the opportunity to become a key member of the Visa Commercial Solutions research team, under the auspices of the larger Design Research organization, supporting one of Visa’s growing areas of product focus.

Design researchers at Visa are innovative thinkers and strategic problem solvers who are as analytical as they are creative. We value methodological rigor, kindness, inclusivity, accountability and collaboration.  In this role, you will assist with strategy, contribute to and lead execution for full scale research projects delivering compelling research insights that distill the complexity of client challenges. This person will play a vital role in developing new products & services directly for Visa’s clients and partners, as well as helping inform critical human insights employed by internal product, consulting and account teams. 

Role responsibilities include

• Execute all phases of qualitative research (scoping, research strategy, conducting, synthesizing and reporting).

• Evangelize and promote design research, storytelling and insights throughout the organization

• Demonstrate a strong understanding of the strengths and weaknesses of different research methods, including when and how to apply them during each product phase, and be able to justify research and design decisions.

• Work across multiple clients to execute research delivering actionable and timely insights

• Create personas, journey maps, user flows and other research artifacts

• Support and help facilitate design thinking workshops with clients and stakeholders

• Identify how to frame complex research problems, as well as evaluate agencies and vendors to support projects (when needed)

• Act as a change agent, sparking fresh ideas that elevate the research practice

• Foster collaboration between Design, Research, Design Operations & Product teams, in addition to establishing relationships with other partners throughout Visa

• Represent the team successfully with all types of stakeholders including Visa clients and partners

• Mentor early career design researchers and lead by example in delivering excellent individual work

Essential Functions

• Experience combining qualitative and quantitative research methodologies to form holistic approaches to problem-solving

• Experience managing participant recruitment processes and associated privacy and data considerations

• Knowledgeable of accessibility guidelines and best practices

• Ability to support design thinking workshops, including leading sessions and engaging with high-profile clients

• Must be results-oriented, and have the ability to work independently, prioritize many competing needs including multiple urgent tasks, and effectively deal with ambiguity

• Innate desire to share credit and support one’s colleagues, putting the success of the team and the company ahead of personal gain

• Ability to build strong relationships while navigating multiple complex organizations, sometimes with competing agendas and differing values

• Successful track record developing relationships and engaging with colleagues across functions, levels and geographies, including within a virtual environment

• Excellent analytical abilities and attention to detail

• Top notch client management/people skills, with experience managing multiple stakeholder relationships

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, problem solving skills, customer service and interperso