Senior Strategic Portfolio 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

Function/Team Summary

Visa Direct is a payment service that Visa provides to clients (sending and receiving financial institutions, processors, merchants, and service providers) to facilitate fund transfers/disbursements to Visa accounts around the world using push payment technology. Visa Direct consumer and business applications include person-to-person (P2P) transfer, person to micro-business transfer (e.g., payouts to shared economy providers), funds disbursement (e.g., insurance claim disbursements), and more.  The push payments market is estimated to be more than 80 Trillion of payment volume globally.

The Visa Direct Product team is responsible for identifying and driving strategic enhancements to the Visa Direct platform. The portfolio team works closely with Product and Technology teams to drive prioritization and governance on investment decisions that align with Commercial Money Movement Solutions (CMS) and Visa Direct Strategy.

Job Description/Essential Functions

We are looking for an experienced Senior Strategic Portfolio Manager who will manage all aspects of strategic planning supporting Product Managers through the process to drive the strategic build of the Product Portfolio and its roadmaps ensuring the value is clear and aligned to strategy.

Additionally, you play a key role in maturing the portfolio processes for Visa Direct by partnering with Technology PMO.

The right candidate is a self-starter, ready to learn and experiment, and able to work both independently and as part of a team. The candidate possesses an incredible ability to collaborate well with others and drive projects forward.

This role will be responsible for:

• Driving the strategic planning, reporting and analysis for Visa Direct’s Portfolio of Products in its quarterly and annual cadences,

• Collaborate with stakeholders (Business Owners, Product Managers, Project Managers, and others) in the creation and documentation of strategic product initiatives and its work items. Ensuring correct prioritization and funding at each planning cycle. Embedding and driving agile portfolio management practices and continuous improvement, ensuring consistency and standards across different product portfolios

• Generating thought leadership and data insights to drive strategic planning.

This position requires working with teams that follow Agile practices as well as traditional  methodologies.   This is NOT a technical program management role. This role supports and works directly with the Visa Direct global product managers to bring the product vision to life and deliver upon it.

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
• 5 or more years of relevant work experience with a Bachelors Degree or at least 2 years of work experience with an Advanced degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD) or 0 years of work experience with a PhD

Preferred Qualifications
• 6 or more years of work experience with a Bachelors Degree or 4 or more years of relevant experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD) or up to 3 years of relevant experience with a PhD
• Superior analytical and problem-solving skills to synthesize and communicate complex information effectively.
• Excellent verbal and written communications skills, ability to quickly master new systems and/or processes, and the capacity to stay organized while managing competing priorities
• Ability to independently drive projects through to completion
• Drive complex deliverables in collaboration with produc