Director – Cybersecurity, Payment Security Standards

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

Are you passionate about security and the ability to be at the forefront of driving responsible innovation in payments ecosystem? We are seeking talent with deep curiosity and passion for Problem Solving in a fast-moving industry. The Director – Cybersecurity, Payment Security Standards delivers best-in-class payment security risk insights to drive improved industry standards and support responsible innovation. The successful candidate will represent Visa at industry standards forums like PCI, ANSI, ISO to develop security standards for the payment industry, bringing technical expertise to key internal and external stakeholders.

As a Founding Member of Payment Card Industry (PCI), Visa maintains and evolves the payment industry standards, which have been expanded to include PIN Transaction Security (PTS) POI and HSM requirements, P2PE Standard, the PCI Secure Software Framework (SSF) standards and the PCI Mobile Payments on COTS (MPoC) standard.

We are seeking a highly motivated individual who is fluent in Payment Security Standards, is highly analytical, an exceptional communicator and an excellent problem solver. 

Essential Functions:

• Working with internal and external stakeholders to provide insights into security standards and to assess requirements and standards for new and evolving areas of innovation as they arise. 

• Conducting cross functional workshops with various internal stakeholders to ensure Visa’s collective voice on security standards is captured, consolidated, documented, and fed back into Standards bodies.

• Provide ecosystem risk guidance and direction into the development of new products, solutions, services and business initiatives across Visa’s product and payment verticals.

• Develop into a subject matter expert within the Payment Card Industry (PCI) with ability to provide expert guidance to Visa teams regarding applicable PCI Council standards.

• Develop materials, best practices, standards, policies and procedures for issues related to emerging technologies affecting the payment ecosystem as necessary to support global clients in the adoption and implementation of Visa products.

• Develop industry and companywide initiatives in support of meeting PCI requirements and industry mandates. Manage a portfolio of standards working groups and leverage Visa’s deep domain experts within risk, technology, product to uplift standards as the industry evolves.

• Identify and assess emerging data security risks and trends and provide recommendations for policy and procedure changes to Visa’s data security compliance programs as necessary.

• Maintain proficiency with current security best practices for the payments industry and serve as a trusted partner to implications and solutions to Visa teams.

• Conducting training and awareness on new product innovations, new technologies and standards in the payment industry.

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

- 10+ years of relevant work experience with a Bachelor’s Degree or at least 7 years of work experience with an Advanced degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD) or 4 years of work experience with a PhD, OR 13+ years of relevant work experience.

Preferable 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
- 12 or more experience in information security, risk management, data security compliance, payments and/or acquir