Director, Business Development

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

As Business Development Director, you will help build our customer portfolio towards large payments & tech players as well as smaller startups. You will work closely with both existing accounts together with those account teams to introduce new and innovative solutions and identify new potential customers where you drive the end-to-end relationship. You will be a crucial member of the team and will help to design and execute the team’s sales and growth strategy.

As the expert in open banking, you will challenge, guide and lead our client’s transformation in terms of user onboarding and account-to-account payments. You will take ownership of a pipeline and drive large deals to the finish line while meeting the financial plan, and continuously collaborate with account managers and the delivery team to ensure a smooth transition into implementation and account management.

As Business Development Director, you will work closely with our Product, Strategy and Marketing teams as well as existing account teams to ensure successful sales. To be successful in this role you will need to be an expert in stakeholder management on different levels across the organization, in a global environment. In this role, you need to be a strong networker with the ability to be a trusted advisor to our customers. You will be a part of selling solutions to some of the largest merchants and payment service providers drive innovation for consumers to create the next generation of financial services.

Responsibilities:

• Become a domain expert in your area to build a network and become a trusted advisor to leading merchants and payment service providers
• You will build a customer portfolio by driving sales activities in the US.
• Build strong relationships with key stakeholders at potential customers and within Visa
• You will lead workshops and meetings with key customers to identify customer needs to match them with Visa offerings.
• You will plan and drive the sales process from initial contact all the way to signature.
• You will build brand awareness, plan and lead marketing activities for the US and co-drive successful marketing projects together with the Marketing team.
• Represent Visa at conferences and other public speaking events.

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.

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Qualifications

Basic Qualifications

• 10 or more years of work experience with a Bachelor’s Degree or at least 8 years of work experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters/ MBA/JD/MD)
• You have prior experience in business development, and strong track in B2B SaaS or Merchant Services

Preferred Qualifications

• 12 or more years of work experience with a Bachelor’s Degree or 8-10 years of experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD)
• You have a track record of top performance in sales, ideally in B2B SaaS and/or in merchant services
• Existing network within US open banking industry
• You have prior experience or deep understanding of account-to-account payments
• Experience from selling deeply integrated solutions that support the delivery of technology
• You have prior experience from managing contract negotiations
• Strong business acumen, strategic thinker, and a customer-centric mindset. You are naturally curious and with a willingness to become an expert in your domain
• Demonstrated a