Product Manager

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

We are looking for an experienced product manager who is passionate about designing the next generation of payment tools to achieve Visa's goals. Products for blockchain tokenization of assets, interoperability between blockchain networks, and payment solutions that utilize tokenized real world assets are all within this team's purview. You can expect to spend time working with clients to understand their tokenization vision, translate that vision into new features for our product portfolio, and work with the dev team to manage backlog and requirements to get new features implemented. This role should have expertise in Agile product management, be able to speak fluidly with both technical and business staff and have a passion for blockchain, tokenization and finance that keeps you motivated to find solutions and keep pushing when roadblocks appear.

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
• Experience facilitating requirements from clients during workshops
• Experience with process mapping and documentation (BPMN, UML, etc.)
• Experience in financial services and/or payments
• Expertise in crypto, CBDC, blockchain tokenization

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
• Senior product manager with 5+ years of experience in digital product management
• Familiarity with Jira Align and Jira
• Familiarity writing epics and user stories in Agile methodology
• Ability to take a complex use case and break down into component requirements (requirements decomposition)
• Ability to lead Agile pod towards execution of roadmap items to include initial estimation of use case and requirements, documentation of user stories into Jira, clarification of requirements working with develoers, and tracking of timelines and completion of story points towards overall release goals
• Ability to lead meetings with senior execs both internal and external
• Ability to document problems as they arise and escalate when necessary
• Ability to write test cases, perform user acceptance testing, and confirm business requirements are met
• Ability to support meetings in multiple time zones and have a flexible schedule to support emerging opportunities and night-time meetings 1-2 days a week
• Ability to create compelling presentations, consulting experience, and or sales pitch deck experience
• Ability to liaison between product team, engineering, business, and research teams and bridge the gap in speaking to a variety of stakeholders, both technical and non-technical
• Familiarity with API testing tools like Postman or similar
• Familiarity with release management practices and maintaining documentation relating to all product releases

Additional Information

Permanent Authorization to work in the U.S. is a precondition of employment for this position. Visa will not sponsor applicants for work visas in connection with this position.

Work Hours: Varies upon the needs of the department.

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

Mental/Physical Requirements: This position will be performed in an office setting.  The position will require the incumbent to sit and stand at a desk, communicate in person and by telephone, frequently operate standard office equipment, such as telephones and computers.

Visa is an EEO Employer.  Qualified applican