Technical Product Manager

Company Description

Visa is a world leader in payments technology, facilitating transactions between consumers, merchants, financial institutions and government entities across more than 200 countries and territories, dedicated to uplifting everyone, everywhere by being the best way to pay and be paid.

At Visa, you'll have the opportunity to create impact at scale — tackling meaningful challenges, growing your skills and seeing your contributions impact lives around the world. Join Visa and do work that matters — to you, to your community, and to the world.

Progress starts with you.

Job Description

Visa Direct is Visa’s real-time payment platform that enables secure, instant, and global money movement across cards, accounts, and wallets. It supports a wide range of use cases including P2P transfers, B2C disbursements, cross-border remittances, and B2B transactions. Visa Direct is a strategic growth engine within Visa’s Commercial Money Movement Solutions (CMS) division.

Visa Direct team is looking for an individual with a technical bent of mind and interest in product ownership to help us continue to grow and launch new features and services. The Technical Product Manager is a hands-on role which includes the following responsibilities:

The Work itself: 

• Partner with business sponsors and business product managers to develop product strategy and roadmap
• Influence business stakeholders on the definition of product requirements
• Run white-boarding sessions with business sponsors and SMEs to develop solution for product requirements
• Take high level requirements and define detailed requirements for execution by the engineering teams
• Partner with business sponsors, architects and development leads to define product development plans and detailed roadmap
• Play the role of Product Owner during the Agile planning and execution cycle
• Be the product SME who provides requirements clarifications during execution cycle
• Address bottlenecks, provide escalation management, anticipate and make tradeoffs, balance the business needs versus technical constraints to maximize business benefit
• Engage with customers and partners on co-solutioning efforts and to drive product adoption in general
• Foster innovation, leverage new technologies and champion impactful positive change to owned product portfolio

 This is a hybrid position. Expectation of days in the office will be confirmed by your Hiring Manager. 

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications:

• 5+ years of relevant work experience with a Bachelor’s 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, OR 8+ years of relevant work experience.

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
• Technical experience in managing products built using Java technologies, API
• (SOAP & REST), Web & Mobile Development.
• Experience working in the Payments space.
• Hands on experience in developing roadmaps, writing user stories, grooming
• product backlogs, and coordinating/prioritizing conflicting requirements in a
• fast paced, ever-changing environment.
• Proficiency working in an agile environment.
• Experience working in the Payments space.
• Track record of successfully delivering complex software systems or services.
• Exceptional collaboration and partnership skills with the ability to work in a
• global environment and drive consensus in cross-functional teams.
• Outstanding communications ability to a diverse customer audience,
• executives, product, and technology stakeholders.
• Solid business acumen.
• Fast learner on both technical and business side.
• Is proactive and operates with a sense of urgency and 'can do' attitude.
• Strategic thinker who can balance big picture strategy with detailed, flawless
• execution.
• Ability to stay organized while managing competing priorities.
• If you have strong analytical skills, a curious mindset, and a strong desire to create a career in technical product management, come talk to us.

Additional Information

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 o