Director, NA Product & Solutions Strategic Initiatives

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

The Director will be a critical member of Visa’s NA Product & Solutions Strategic Initiatives team, which is responsible for evaluating and driving cross-product, strategic regulatory, and new product opportunities as well as resolving complex product-related issues.

The successful candidate will be highly comfortable with ambiguity and leading a cross-functional team to successful outcomes, particularly when the path to doing so is unclear or uncharted. He or she must be able to quickly build relationships across all levels, understand how to swiftly determine needed course(s) of action, and know how to motivate a diverse set of stakeholders to act cohesively and productively in pursuit of it when individual goals may vary. The subject matter of initiatives will widely vary – from regulatory strategy to new product launches – so the ideal candidate will be excited by the opportunity to apply themselves, at times simultaneously, to diverse topics.

Day to day, the Director will:

• Lead product-related initiatives or major workstreams, including managing the day-to-day cross-functional project and team activities to meet goals and timelines, including, setting said goals and timelines when undefined
• Distill ambiguous, pressing problems or opportunities into clear, cross-functional plans of action and management across multiple potential scenarios
• Drive rigorous, fact based, quantitative and qualitative analysis to support recommendations or potential scenarios, ensuring strategic and financial soundness and alignment
• Build out unique, creative and impactful solutions in collaboration with cross-functional partners
• Build strong relationships with product and cross-functional partners and make sure partners remain effective and on task, including, filling in as an extra set of hands or acting as the de facto team leader as needed
• Develop clear and concise communications at both a project team and an executive level

The successful candidate will have:

• Experience in and/or significant exposure to the payments industry
• Equal love of and ability to set a sound strategy as to be responsible for its successful execution
• Aptitude for ramping up quickly across novel projects with little oversight and/or precedent
• Capacity to lead beyond tenure, including teams of senior stakeholders
• Ability to independently structure, lead and execute complex projects and processes, with proven leadership success over a wide variety of functional business problems and stakeholders
• Ability to discern the key pieces of information and needed next steps from a wide range of opinions and data points to keep moving a project forward
• Superior analytical and problem solving skills, with demonstrated intellectual and analytical rigor as well as attention to detail
• Personal presence and ability to clearly communicate compelling messages to senior managers and external business partners
• Strong interpersonal and leadership skills to influence and build credibility as a peer with functional and regional leaders within Visa
• Self-starter, team oriented, collaborative, diplomatic, and flexible, with excellent presentation skills, including strong oral and writing capabilities

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) or at least 3 years of work experience with a PhD

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) or 6+ years of work experience with a PhD.

Additional Information

Work Hours: Varies upon the needs of the department.

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

Mental/Physical Requirements: This position will be performed in an office setting.  The position will require the incumbent to sit and stand at a desk, communicate in person and by telephone, frequently operate standard office equ