Global Strategic Digital Partnerships MBA Intern- 2024

Company Description

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

This role sits within Visa’s Global Strategic Digital Partnerships and is responsible for strategically growing Visa’s business in both the Big Tech & Fintech segments. This team is focused on global strategy setting, market engagement, performance analytics, business operations & efficiency, and strategic initiatives directly with the SVP Head of Global Strategic Digital Partnerships.

Some job duties and projects could include: 

Strategy & Ops

• Coordinating strategic business decisions around revenue generation, expense control, business optimization, investments, and resource allocation.
• Supporting Global & NA Digital Partnerships, in the creation of a transformation agenda to make Visa the payments choice & forerunner for big tech & fintech partnerships
• In close partnership with Finance and key business partners, leading annual operating plan and multi-year outlook process, and driving key strategic, financial, and operational activities by leading business reviews, scorecards, OKR planning, and regular OKR review. Proactively review all progress reports, updates, dashboards and highlighting areas that require attention
• Build and manage sales operations unit, managing sales and implementation pipelines, sales goals across Digital Partnerships and partnering client segment units

Market Engagement & Communications

• Work across a strategic handful of industry thought leaders / VCs to inform business insights and industry trends
• Developing and maintaining established internal communications architecture such as all-hands, and newsletters
• Leading and coordinating the creation of materials for key cadences such as MBRs, QBRs, All-staffs, Global and NA LT sessions, CEO updates and client councils/forums with the Partnerships Leadership Team
• In conjunction with the Communications and Partnerships teams, developing internal and external communications to keep the Big Tech & Fintech narrative consistent in the market
• Working with the partnering functions to collect key developments and highlights in preparation for meetings and discussions and prioritizing business topics

Strategic Initiatives

• Support & deliver cross-functional projects for the entire Digital Partnerships team, ranging from client/sales use cases to deal due diligence, and facilitate efficient decision-making

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications 

• Students pursuing a MBA Degree with a graduation date between May 2025 and August 2025; Strong communications skills, specifically, the absence of repeated grammatical or typographical errors, clear and concise written and spoken communications that demonstrate professional judgment. 

Preferred Qualifications 

• Ability to identify and connect various business topics/problems, tell overall story/key points, and figure out potential solutions
• Ability to provide concise meaningful summary from various information sources
• Good communication skills, both written and oral, and ability to collaborate, influence, and bring consensus across multiple teams. Active listening required
• Good problem solving and can move projects forward even in somewhat ambiguous scenario
• Strong analytical skills (incl. leveraging data) and PowerPoint design skills to highlight the business story
• Excellent problem-solving skills with a strong customer-centric mindset
• Demonstrated thought leadership and the aptitude to think creatively and identify new ways to innovate and differentiate products with evidence of tangible business results
• Passionate about what you do and fired up about the opportunity to transform payments working for the industry leader
• Possess a high level of professionalism and leadership skills to build business relationships, trust and respect with business partner