Sr. Technical Product Manager, Payments Solutions & Innovation (Director Level)

Company Description

Visa is a world leader in digital payments, facilitating more than 215 billion payments transactions between consumers, merchants, financial institutions and government entities across 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.

When you join Visa, you join a culture of purpose and belonging – where your growth is priority, your identity is embraced, and the work you do matters. We believe that economies that include everyone everywhere, uplift everyone everywhere. Your work will have a direct impact on billions of people around the world – helping unlock financial access to enable the future of money movement.

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Job Description

VISA Regional Solutions and Digital Partnership (RSDP) develops, delivers, and manages end-to-end technology solutions to promote the growth of digital commerce and mobilization of payments in emerging and developed markets. Our team develops region-specific new payment flows solutions and runs live pilots with VISA clients and partners across different geographies to showcase state of the art payment technologies.  

The RSDP technology team is looking for a Sr. TPM leader who is passionate about being creative, learn new technology trends in payments space, understand market dynamics and collaborate with the product managers across different regions.  Successful candidate will be highly adaptable, possess strong interpersonal and organizational skills, and effectively manage multiple work streams. As Sr. TPM, you will collaborate with the regional product teams to create requirements document and work with the program management and the engineering team to ensure timely delivery of solutions for VISA clients and partners.  You will participate in solution architecture design and API specifications to ensure that the solution is extensible and can scale to support multiple regions.  You will work together with the engineering team to define milestones and deliverables and ensure that the deliverables meet the schedule. This role is an individual contributor role that requires to work with executives across product and engineering orgs.

The ideal candidate for this position will have more than twelve years of experience in technology as a developer or technical product manager working in an agile development environment. 

Accountabilities - General

• Own delivery of multiple projects from technical requirements and quality assurance perspective.
• Evangelize the platform, capabilities and the tools of the RSDP team within the rest of the organization.
• Create high level project development estimates based on prior experience and complexity of the project.
• Develop understanding of existing VISA products and services and apply that knowledge to create solutions for new payment flows and external VISA clients product requests.
• Technical product management functions including functional specs, product and platform roadmap, issue/risk management, and definition of success criteria for the projects.
• Extensive cross-organization collaboration with internal VISA groups and external partners to ensure that requirements are well documented.
• Ability to do high-level system design and message flows to represent the implementation of the requirements
• Interface with various technology teams and business stakeholders to gather complete requirements and converting them to functional specs, prioritizing, and driving execution.
• Be the customer (internal product teams and external VISA clients) seat in the engineering team.  Should have deep passion for satisfying customer needs and influencing design and priority appropriately.
• Collaborate with the program management team to define parallel tracks for the project and the milestones within each track.  Continue to ensure that the project is on-track and be accountable to address any roadblocks.
• Provide guidance and mentorship to other TPMs and members of the development team.
• Present the project detail status, technical architecture and risks to senior management.
• Work closely with the engineers and contribute to the development of design artifacts and quality assurance test plans
• Plan and conduct User Acceptance Testing with key stakeholders, Bug bashes, and hackathons
• Own and develop clear and concise product collateral in order to document the pilot requirements and technical architecture document.  
• Responsible for ensuring that weekly status reports are sent to the stakeholders and partners.
• Manage multiple projects in different geography simultaneously and ensure on-time/quality delivery

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