Sr. Director

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 Innovation and Global Digital Partnerships organization leads the development and commercialization of Visa products and solutions for Big Tech, Fintech and Platform partnernerships as well as our global network of Innovation Centers. The Business Planning and Operations team is focused on a range of business performance, business planning and analysis and operational responsibilities focused on supporting the Big Tech, Fintech and Innovation teams. This role provides support to the leadership team across a range of activities focused on improving business performance, supporting the leadership team with research, analysis and presentations and driving culture initiatives for the group.

Specific responsibilities include the following:

• Creating and developing presentations to support Senior Leadership meetings with both internal and external stakeholders (including clients across the globe).

• Leading strategic initiatives, assessments and projects to drive incremental revenue and improve business planning and operations.

• Identifying and sharing best practices across the team to improve business performance.

• Coordinating strategic business decisions around revenue generation, business optimization and investments

• Leading and creating employee initiatives to build a best-in-class culture across all regions and business areas.

• Lead the annual goal setting and establishment of business scorecards for the Innovation and Global Digital Partnership teams.

• Assessing key priorities for the group and ensuring goal alignment to priorities across the organization. Track business performance through quarterly scorecard updates.

• Develop business unit five-year strategic plan in partnership with leadership team.

• Deliver insights on competitors and market and provide benchmarking to support group strategy, key priorities and business unit presentations and performance assessments.

• Proactively identify opportunities to streamline reporting and analysis and identify key issues for the leadership team.

• Highlighting success stories across the group to amplify the Innovation and Digital Partnership story.

Qualifications

10 plus years of experience, preferably in payments, with consulting or strategy experience a plus
Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written, with a proven ability to colloborate across business and functional stakeholders and build relationships across the team and organization
Strategic thinker with an ability to analyze business issues and problems, develop solutions and execute
Highly analytical and intellectually curious. Asks questions to build knowledge base and highlight trends and risks and concerns
Proven project management skills and ability to manage multiple tasks and deliver across a range of strategic initiatives
Excellent problem-solving skills with a mindset of making it easier and simpler for partners
Culture leader with a demonstrated ability to interact with team members to understand colleagues concerns and issues and implement solutions to build a best-in-class culture
Ability to work independently and comfortable working on new and emerging projects and developing frameworks
Visa and payment industry knowledge a plus

Additional Information

Visa has adopted a COVID-19 vaccination policy to safeguard the health and well-being of our employees and visitors. As a condition of employment, all employees based in the U.S. are required to be fully vaccinated for COVID-19, unless a reasonable accommodation is approved or as otherwise required by law.

Work Hours: Varies upon the needs of the department.

Travel Requirements: This position requires travel 5-10% of the time.