Sr Director, Processor Engagement and 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.

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Job Description

The Visa Commercial Solutions (VCS) team is a world-class commercial organization experiencing tremendous growth as we expand into new payment flows and continue to grow our core solutions. Our team brings payment solutions and associated services to clients around the globe.  Our global clients and partners deploy our solutions to serve the needs of Small Businesses, Middle Market Clients, Large Corporate Clients, Multi Nationals and Governments.  We work closely with Issuers, Merchants, Processors, FinTechs and other ecosystem players to deliver these services.  We believe that the market is at an inflection point whereby Visa can play a larger role in building and delivering solutions around the world. 

The Sr. Director, Processor Engagement and Solutions is responsible for developing the Visa Commercial Solutions processor strategy.  This includes understanding our B2B and commercial payments product roadmap, dependencies on the payments processing environment and driving our integration and go to market approach.  As our commercial payments use cases grow with new capabilities, new verticals, and turnkey solutions, we require partnership and integration with processors and enablers in markets around the world.  The need to deeply understand capabilities across geographies, define joint roadmaps, and assess level of readiness with these partners is key to our go to market approach.

The Sr. Director will be both an internal and client-facing senior leadership role, partnering closely with Product leaders, Regional leaders and Account Executives.  The candidate will build a strategy, roadmap, inventory and plan to advance how Visa Commercial Solutions goes to market and maximizes the effectiveness of the processor distribution channel.

The ideal candidate is an experienced product leader that understands both the business and technical aspects of payments with hands on experience in issuer processing environments.  This role requires strategic thinking, collaboration, commercialization skills and creative problem-solving.  The candidate will bring prior experience with hands-on client management, product management, and deep knowledge of B2B payments and payments ecosystem.  The candidate will need to engage and influence executives at Visa and our partners.  Essential to this role is the ability to communicate clearly (at a senior level), build effective internal and external relationships and drive action across a highly matrixed organization.

Essential Functions:

• Act as the Visa Commercial Solutions subject matter expert on all things related to processors and processing when it comes to commercial payments
• Develop the Visa Commercial Solutions processor strategy.  This includes understanding our commercial payments product roadmap, dependencies on payments processing environments and driving our integration and go to market approach
• Build a perspective on the processor landscape and inventory of key partners, their capabilities, level of readiness, and geographical footprint
• Assist Global Product with prioritization of key features and business models required to prime the processor distribution channel
• Partner with account executives to engage with processor partners and develop joint roadmaps that will enable the success of our clients
• Work hand-in-hand with sales teams, solution specialists and potential clients, answering questions on processor environment considerations, as well as providing recommendations on the best way to integrate our products to achieve the desired outcomes.
• Part of the Global Product team.  Act as a resident expert on product capabilities, use cases, and roadmap.  Support stakeholder questions related to products, services and integrated processors around the world.  Communicate and evangelizes roadmap and dependencies with key stakeholders

This is a hybrid position. Hybrid employees can alternate time between both remote and office. Employees in hy