Sr. Director, Service Experience

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 Senior Director, Service Experience for Client Services is responsible for the client service experience for the Growth Products and Data Products portfolios globally. Accountability spans across end-to-end service experience from pre-sales to full product activation, with the goal to standardize across the regions and optimize the full portfolio of Growth Products and Data Products Solutions offerings in alignment with Visa’s Integrated Service Experience Architecture.

This includes:

• Interface with the Growth Products & Data Product teams, acting as the voice of the customer, bringing business cases for product improvements, and evolving the service experience to be a core differentiator.
• For all new Growth products & Data products and initiatives, incubate onboarding and implementations, create SLAs and implementation blueprints, establish ongoing support and client optimization blueprints to be utilized by regional Client Services teams and the global Client Care organization
• Mapping the full-service experience and building and refining processes to drive operational excellence across a matrixed delivery team with the goal of exceeding client’s expectations, reducing client escalations, and managing the overall service intensity/cost.
• This leader is responsible for building a cohesive, high performing team of professionals. This candidate will be a key leader on the Go-To-Market Services (Consumer Payments, Platform Products, Growth Products & Data Solutions) Leadership Team

Principal Responsibilities/Key Results Areas

• Partners closely with the regional Client Services teams, global Client Care organization and the Specialized Sales team to ensure operational excellence across the full-service experience for all Growth & Data products.
• Engage regularly with regional peers to socialize and educate details of the Product pipeline, define processes and artifacts applicable to all regions and gather feedback to modify the approach with product as necessary 
• Develop necessary documentation to educate Client Services and to ensure they have the needed artifacts to educate and execute the strategy with the clients 
• Works in close alignment with the Global Value-Added Services (VAS) and Consumer Client Services to ensure a seamless service experience
• Establishes and communicates standard service metrics by product family including cost to serve and overall service satisfaction.
• Continually optimizes service experience and cost to serve for Growth and Data Products in line with overall product strategy.
• Proactively identifies and solves complex problems that impact the management, relationships and direction of the business.
• Delivers shared service support to other service teams for product releases and client communications.
• Represent CS to lead multi-year strategic initiatives that require additional expertise and insight to build a non-traditional support model with active engagement to help design the product strategy
• Elevate engagement to address poor product design which creates unreasonable operational debt
• Develop strong partnerships with Global Product and Technology teams to be recognized as a key contributor to their success

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

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications:

• 12 or more years of work experience with a Bachelor’s Degree or at least 10 years of work experience with an Advanced degree (e.g. Masters/MBA /JD/MD), or a minimum of 5 years of work experience with a PhD

Preferred Qualifications

• 15 or more years of experience with a Bachelor’s Degree or 12 years of experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, or MD), PhD with 9+ years of experience
• Excellent verbal, written, presentation and interpersonal skills
• Strong collaboration skills
• Strong leadership skills within a matrix management environment
• Demonstrated technical aptitude
• Able to set priorities, influence oth