Senior Director - Financial Institution Sales, NA Visa Direct

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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Company Description 

As the world's leader in digital payments technology, Visa's mission is to connect the world through the most creative, reliable, and secure payment network - enabling individuals, businesses, and economies to thrive. Our advanced global processing network, VisaNet, provides secure and reliable payments around the world, and is capable of handling more than 65,000 transaction messages a second. The company's dedication to innovation drives the rapid growth of connected commerce on any device and fuels the dream of a cashless future for everyone, everywhere. As the world moves from analog to digital, Visa is applying our brand, products, people, network, and scale to reshape the future of commerce. 

At Visa, your individuality fits right in. Working here gives you an opportunity to impact the world, invest in your career growth, and be part of an inclusive and diverse workplace. We are a global team of disruptors, trailblazers, innovators and risk-takers who are helping drive economic growth in even the most remote parts of the world, creatively moving the industry forward, and doing meaningful work that brings financial literacy and digital commerce to millions of unbanked and underserved consumers. 

You're an Individual. We're the team for you. Together, let's transform the way the world pays. 

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Position Summary 

Visa Direct is a money movement solution that Visa provides to clients (issuers, acquirers, processors, merchants and service providers) to facilitate domestic and cross-border fund transfers disbursements using debit card credentials, bank account information or digital wallet addresses around the world.  In the U.S., Visa Direct supports pull and push money movements, i.e., Original Credit Transaction (OCT) and consumer and business applications including real-time bank account funding (AFT), person to person (P2P) transfer, person to micro-business transfer (e.g., payments to landscaper), and funds disbursement (e.g., insurance claim disbursements).  Currently, the NA push payments market globally is estimated to be a USD13T opportunity and there is over USD700B in cross border payments originating from North America. Over the past years we have invested in establishing competitive payment rails and superior market readiness, and we are now ready to focus aggressively on cross border growth. 

Senior Director of Financial Institutions, North America Visa Direct, has ownership and accountability of regional bank and community bank sales opportunities across all Visa Direct product capabilities and endpoints (e.g. international collections, multicurrency wallet and FX services, disbursements to card, account and wallet).  This role will manage a team of sales professionals to own and deliver on aggressive sales targets against these highly visible and challenging client types.  

Purpose and Scope 

Own and deliver the entire annual sales target across regional banks and community banks. 

Develop and lead a team of sales professionals and establish clear organization model  

Support and engage senior Visa Account Executives to build, manage, and execute on a robust pipeline of sales opportunities across their accounts 

Directly engage with client executives to sell, close, and scale all aspects the Visa Direct money movement suite of capabilities 

Partner directly with FI technology providers or enablers to drive joint pipeline conversion  

Influence and drive commercialization strategy across clients’ AEs for the region and across cross-functional stakeholders (marketing, digital sales, comms, finance, etc.) for all use cases and VD capabilities 

Accountable for driving RFP’s and presentations for money movement including developing, managing, and coordinating pitch materials and financial incentives 

Provide market insights and client feedback to internal teams to influence Visa Direct strategy and product roadmap  

Collaborate with internal finance, legal, and deals team stakeholders to remove internal blockers and friction to speed sales execution and drive stronger commercial outcomes for the team 

Directly lead and engage global client sales opportunities (with