Associate Product Manager, New College Grad - 2024

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.

Join Visa: A Network Working for Everyone.

Job Description

The global Product Organization delivers the complete product strategy for Visa and accelerates the flawless delivery of our products into markets. We are investing in the next generation of talent to ensure our products, services and data are the center of the changing ways people pay and get paid. We are motivated by a diverse team of dedicated team members who continuously improve on delivering outstanding products and services to people all over the world.

We are looking for New College Graduates that are interested in being a future Product Manager with varying levels of experience and background (0-1 years of work experience) to join our dynamic Associate Product Manager Program. In this program you will be staffed on our highest need initiatives and enrolled in a learning and development plan targeted at developing our most critical product manager proficiencies. While experiences may vary by candidate and business need, the program will include 4 rotations over 24 months working on high impact product opportunities while collaborating with a wide array of key team members across product, engineering, sales, strategy, finance and marketing. Rotation and learning experiences will build skills in innovation and design, product marketing, commercialization and product implementation. The intention is that, upon completion, impactful program participants will be prepared to take on sophisticated product management roles.

As an Associate Product Manager at Visa, you will be a key member of the team that drives the latest and most innovative ideas from product ideation, to build, to launch, to scaling in the market. You will assist in delivering next generation product offerings to our customers, including innovative payment experiences, groundbreaking fraud prevention, capabilities to help banks, tech companies, fintechs and merchants meet their consumers’ needs, and local solutions tailored to one or more of the 200 countries we operate in.

• You are a self-starter, ready to learn and experiment, and be able to work both independently and as part of a team. A key driver of success will be the ability to focus on the highest leverage activities in the face of rapid change and new information, and the ability to independently drive activities all the way to successful completion. Product management will be a focal point in our strategy to delivery premier products to market, and the Associate Product Manager role is a key piece of that vision.
• We are hiring for the Associate Product Manager Program in the Bay Area; may be placed in our Foster City or San Francisco offices.
• Support the development of the product strategy, go-to-market plans, and product design documents (concept document, business case, product requirements)
• Support the development of the product roadmap to define/support the product goals and strategies
• Become knowledgeable on Visa’s products and support the product team in driving the development of product features and functionality, using the solid base of existing capabilities where appropriate.
• Understand market trends, competition, and user requirements
• Distill market research to provide perspective to the team and product management leaders to inform insights and decisions
• Collaborate with designers to build design concepts and with Engineering to implement and iterate on these concepts
• Collaborate with internal Visa teams (e.g., regional teams, Product Marketing, Business Development, Finance) to define and implement a cohesive strategy related to a specific product or feature

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications

• Less than 2 years relevant work experience with BA/BS or MA/MS degree in Product Management, Computer Science, Engineering, Data Science, Mathematics, Statistics, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience in conjunction with a less technical BA/BS or MA/MS graduating between December 2023 - August 2