Vice President, Credentials

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

Tokenization is fundamental to Visa's vision to secure digital commerce and enable a variety of new use cases. The VP of Credentials will be on the forefront of Visa's innovation and will oversee a team responsible for design, development and test engineering of Visa’s suite of tokenization services which include Visa Token Service and the Token ID suite of services. 

Essential Functions

• Partner with product and market teams to scale token adoption by optimizing performance of tokenized transaction and enabling seamless digital experiences.  

• Execute technology strategies and key priorities to meet business objectives and strategies with key stakeholders across technology, global product and market facing teams.  

• Lead cross-functional global team of senior engineers, solution architects, technical project managers and operations teams to define technology project architecture, technology strategy, and play a leadership role providing guidance to stakeholders.   

• Works directly and closely with Platform Products and cross functional stakeholder team to develop multi-year strategic outlook plans, instrumental in defining solutions for large/complex opportunities/challenges. 

• Directly responsible for product development of credential platforms, spanning Visa Token Service and Token ID 

• Provide leadership and oversight to a globally distributed team (200+) of technology leaders and developers implementing highly scalable, low-latency, high-throughput software systems that have five 9s plus availability.

• Own the planning, design, and delivery of all product development roadmap items for the vertical. · Establish a culture of engineering excellence with focus on delivering high quality products to production.

• Ensure security and operational posture of the platform meets the highest standards. · Attract, hire, retain and grow top engineering leaders and talent, provide mentoring, coaching and guidance to your staff.

• Drive developer productivity through adoption of innovative technologies/tools and engineering fundamentals & best practices.

• Establishing a culture that values ownership, accountability and creates an environment that enables innovation and continuous improvement.

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

Preferred qualifications
• 15 or more years of experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD, PhD)
Bachelors or Masters with a STEM major (Science, Technology, Engineering or Math).
• Experience in leading large, global software engineering technology teams of 200+ across multiple time zones and cultures.
• Experience in design, architecture, and engineering of highly available, secure, resilient, and scalable systems.
• Experience in implementing cloud-native architectures and design patterns.
• Excellent knowledge of core engineering best practices and the ability to implement these across the team.
• Highly experienced in best practices and patterns related to API design and system/application architecture.
• Strong knowledge of SSDLC principles and practices.
• Experience working in an Agile based product development setup and matrixed organizations.
• Demonstrated experience in change management concerning the adoption of modern & innovative technologies.
• Experience in crafting a collaborative and innovative work culture that encourages risk-taking and fosters excellence.
• An ability to combine analytical reasoning, creativity, and judgment in handling complex matters, with multiple initiatives going on simultaneously.
• Demonstrated ability to recruit, grow, nurture, retain, and lead hig