Senior Product Manager

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.

Make an impact with a purpose-driven industry leader. Join us today and experience Life at Visa.

Job Description

We are looking for a customer-obsessed Senior Product Manager to help drive Visa Rapid Onboarding.  The ideal candidate must have a strong product background and ability to deliver. They should excel in both strategic thinking as well as tactical execution, as responsibilities will range from creating business plans to driving product development and delivery. This role will interact with and influence multiple teams across Visa’s global organization including Engineering, Sales, Finance, Legal, Design, Quality, Consumer Insights, and Operations.

This role will report into the Global Senior Director of Product, and will be based in Austin, TX with significant exposure to key stakeholders and leadership across Visa Inc.  This position is an individual contributor role and may require occasional travel to vendor or client sites, and Visa locations around the globe.

Essential Functions

• Act as a product evangelist to create buy-in and build awareness and understanding of Visa Rapid Onboarding both internally and with key external partners.
• Drive the execution of all processes in the product lifecycle, including market research, competitor analysis, strategy, planning, positioning, requirements and roadmap development, and product launch.
• Work with regional and country-level teams to define localised product strategies to scale the product with clients, including merchants, acquiring partners, technical partners, marketplace providers, and payment facilitators.
• Coordinate product launch activities across international and cross-functional teams.
• Translate product strategy into detailed business requirements and specifications for user experience design, and scoping and development by engineering teams. 
• Groom, prioritize, and execute product backlog in a fast-paced agile environment.
• Monitor and report on the progress of all activity within the product area including significant milestones and any conditions which would affect project cost or schedule.
• Lead cross functional effort to build appropriate support processes, training, and materials for all channels.
• Analyze quantitative and qualitative data to provide actionable insights and iterate product capabilities.
• Participate in user experience iterations and help conduct user research to test product enhancements.

Success Traits

• Understanding of market trends and possess skillset to build business cases for new product opportunities.
• Comfortable taking accountability and driving planning, resolution and execution with his/her team.
• Proven ability to execute and operate successfully within a multicultural global highly-matrixed, often ambiguous work environment.
• Ability to interact effectively with external partners that may include vendors, clients, government regulators, and others.
• Strong collaboration and consensus building skills, with a bias towards action
• Awareness of, and sensitivity to, localization needs within a global product.
• Be data driven, providing facts and analysis to support point of view.
• Possesses the ability to “roll up their sleeves” and jump in and drive resolution.
• Ability to lead by influence, not only by hierarchy or authority.

This is a hybrid position. Expectation of days in office will be confirmed by your hiring manager.

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications
• 8 or more years of relevant work experience with a Bachelor 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

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
• 5+ years in product management is required.
• Exceptional written and oral communication abilities.
• Ability to manage multiple concurrent projects - work prioritization, planning and task delegation
• Proven record of accomplishment and success in fast-paced, cross-functional agile scrum environments with demanding tim