Sr. Technical Program Manager

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’s Issuing Solutions (IS) team is building a new generation of products to facilitate commerce in everyone’s digital and mobile lives. Our focus is to build products with features that expose profound new value for our customers, merchants, and developers.

The role is a Technical Program Manager, supporting the Mobile Enablement team, with hands-on project/program management experience.  This team is responsible for delivering mobile applications, creating Visa-wide solutions for the mobile market, as well as the backend services and tools required to enable them.

In this position, you are first and foremost a passionate and talented problem-solver who can work in a dynamic environment as a member of an agile Program Management team. Your strong leadership and coordination skills are just a start. You must have a passion for delivering quality software, on a dependable schedule, and a desire to ensure that product functionality is made available to customers through a well-defined process.

The Technical Program Manager is responsible for managing the delivery of mobile capabilities for internal and external clients in and Agile environment. The primary product leverages and expands existing Visa mobile capabilities.

Essential Function:

• The Program Manager in this function will be responsible for the end to end lifecycle - planning, execution and implementation of the capabilities required for the product.

• This is a highly visible position that interacts with a broad spectrum of
  stakeholders including management at varying levels, developers, architects, business leaders and the like.

• A strong candidate will have a solid experience with technology product- and project-management, cross-functional team leadership, as well as exceptional business analysis, problem-solving, cross-team coordination, communications, project/program management, processes, and change management skills.

• The ideal candidate is not just a facilitator or project plan tracker but ensures things get done. The ideal candidate must have a drive to get things done and a make it happen attitude.

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.

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications
• 8+ years of relevant work experience with a Bachelor’s Degree or at least 5 years of experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD) or 2 years of work experience with a PhD, OR 11+ years of relevant work experience.

Preferred Qualifications
• 9 or more years of relevant work experience with a Bachelor Degree or 7 or more relevant years of experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD) or 3 or more years of experience with a PhD in Computer Science/Computer Engineering, Business, or other related field.
• Minimum of 4 years of experience in technical program/project management.
• Experience with mobile and web-based applications
• Demonstrated problem solving, analytic, and troubleshooting skills
• SCRUM/Agile experience
• Ability to thoroughly understand complex business and technical issues and influence decision
making at all levels of the organization without formal reporting structure authority
• Excellent communication and reporting skills.
• Excellent organizational skills to focus on the tasks at hand
• A positive and enthusiastic outlook, both within the team and when working alone.
• Be highly motivated and demonstrate the willingness to learn and to grow within the role
• Passion for high quality software engineering
• Be at their best when they are collaborating with a high performing team.
• Be inquisitive in nature and innovative in