Director, Global Editorial and Publishing

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 Platforms and Editorial Director is part of the Global Content Strategy, Development & Distribution team, reporting into the Senior Director, Global Strategic Planning. This individual will be part of a global team responsible for developing and scaling best-in-class content on behalf of Visa’s marketing positioning and voice.

This individual will oversee the planning, management, and optimization of Visa’s content across global social media platforms.  This person should have a passion and experience in:

• Social Listening across industries, trends, and topics

• Real-time and reactive content development

• Editorial Planning and Management

• Community Management and Engagement

• Social Platforms, Algorithms and Trends

• Performance and Measurement to Optimize

Essential Functions (Required):

• Use data and best practices to plan, schedule and post Visa content across key platforms including Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, and LinkedIn

• Provide strong guidance on platform and content best practices (by staying on the edge of platform trends, algorithms and innovation)

• Partner with Content Strategy to maintain a deep understanding of audiences and communities as well as their wants and needs

• Partner with Community Management team to identify and drive real-time engagement opportunities that builds community

• Mine, track and identify trends from the Visa community that can inform future strategies

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.

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Qualifications

Basic Qualifications:
• 10 or more years of work experience with a Bachelor’s Degree or at least 8 years of work experience
with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters/ MBA/JD/MD) or at least 3 years of work experience with a
PhD

Preferred 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+ years experience in strategic and/or operations roles managing digital and social marketing
and content
• Deep experience with social media platforms as demonstrated through an understanding of the
unique languages, algorithms and advertising model within each major platform
• Content strategy, financial services or payments industry experience preferred
• Extremely organized with keen attention to detail
• An influential and confident leader with experience collaborating across complex global teams
• Bring fresh creative ideas to increase efficient and effective experimentation
• You have a bias for action, not bureaucracy, and are able to act nimbly and quickly while rallying
cross-functional teams.
• Must have proven ability to drive results with a high degree of personal initiative and leadership in a
fast-paced, dynamic environment with limited resources.
• A thought-leader, change agent, and champion of developing new ways of working.
• Must have strong leadership experience with a desire to mentor and grow teams.

Additional Information

Work Hours: Varies upon the needs of the department.

Travel Requirements: This position requires travel 5-10% of the time.

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