Senior Product Owner

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

About Us: Visa’s Acceptance Solutions Professional Services (ASPS) solves problems and accelerates innovation and growth for our merchants, acquirers, partners, and payment technology providers by providing a range of services including consulting, technology, and business transformation, developing target state architectures, customer journey mapping, solution development, product acceleration, development, testing, migration, implementation, and value realization. 

Position Overview: We are looking for a passionate, dynamic and customer focused Technical Product Owner to join our Visa’s Acceptance Solutions Professional Services team. The candidate should have a strong technical background, should be a thought leader, have exceptional organizational skills, written and verbal communication skills and be an analytical and structured thinker. 

The right candidate should possess a strong Technical Product Management background, with demonstrated expertise in contributing to medium to large cross-functional projects. We are looking for candidates who have demonstrated excellence as Technical Product Manager in the payments, internet, or related industries. The successful candidate must be a hands-on person with proven ability to engage in high bandwidth conversations with both business and technology executives.

Key Responsibilities: To be successful in this position, this individual must be highly effective working both independently and in cross-functional capacities to identify, define, analyze, prioritize, and refine technology requirements across all categories. Successful candidates will be skilled at forging strong partnerships with business sponsors, product managers, solution architects, and developers to define feature sets, story maps, detailed user stories (functional and non-functional) to support the development process. This function will address bottlenecks, provide escalation management, anticipate and make tradeoffs, balance the business needs versus technical constraints to maximize business benefit.

Beyond the design and planning stages of the development lifecycle, strong Agile expertise is required to collaborate with Scrum teams and communicate requirements to development teams for execution and implementation.

This role will also partner with the cross-functional leadership team to help define the roadmap priorities and ensure that it remains aligned with the broader strategy and priorities. This individual will foster innovation, collaboration, leverage new technologies and champion impactful change to build Visa's technology brand through internal and external initiatives.

• A product owner's primary responsibilities are to define user stories and create a product backlog.

• Be hands-on with describing business rules as technical artifacts for analysts, business product managers, and any functional team that depends on this information.

• Be skilled at forging strong partnerships with business sponsors, product managers, architects, and developers to define feature sets, story maps, detailed user stories (functional and non-functional) to support the development process.

• Discuss technical implementation details with architects, and other technical teams.

• Partner with card acquirers, banks, and other strategic partners to enable payment processing which facilitates our global footprint expansion.

• Collaborate with engineering teams to build robust, reliable, and scalable payment processing platforms.

• Synthesize requirements into a common set of platform and services capabilities.

• Candidates will be responsible for value proposition definition, communications across technical, business and product functions, cost/benefit analysis, and executive presentations.

• Define product requirements which involve writing clear, thorough, and detailed user stories for compl