Sr. Product Manager

Company Description

Visa is a world leader in payments and technology, with over 259 billion payments transactions flowing safely between consumers, merchants, financial institutions, and government entities in 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 while driven by a common purpose – to uplift everyone, everywhere by being the best way to pay and be paid.

Make an impact with a purpose-driven industry leader. Join us today and experience Life at Visa.

Job Description

In this role, you will be part of the Core Product Integration and Lifecycle Management product team within Consumer Payments. The unified APIs will be a suite a APIs that will simplify access to Visa products and service for our clients. By introducing new unified APIs with a common testing environment, we will deliver a simplified method of API/service deployment that will reduce complexity for clients and enable multiproduct adoption.

As the Senior Product Manager, Unified APIs, you will help drive the product strategy and manage key activities and dependencies to help resolve challenges needed between the different functional groups across Technology, Product, etc. You will drive planning, product development, and delivery effort for the Consumer Payment Unified APIs with key milestones identified. This position reports into the VP, Core Product Integratron and Lifecycle Management.

Essential Functions

• Work with Visa product teams and other stakeholders to ensure Consumer Payments Unified APIs capabilities are aligned with Visa product strategy.
• Manage product roadmap and prioritized backlog including production issues.
• Work with architects and development teams to ensure detailed requirements are accurate, complete and can be taken up for development.
• Ensure all requirements are well articulated in JIRA as Epics/Features for Engineering team and dependent teams.
• Facilitate end to end product delivery as needed by undertaking any requirement clarification, scoping, creating functional test scenarios, UAT signs offs, release communications etc.
• Collaborate with internal teams to gather high level requirements, convert them into feature specs, prioritize, and partner with engineering teams to drive execution.
• Advocate for internal and external customer needs to influence solutions design and priorities.
• Establish milestones in alignment with client needs to ensure timely product delivery.
• Represent the product team in engineering meetings, providing clarification on features and requirements.

This is a hybrid position. Hybrid employees can alternate time between both remote and office. Employees in hybrid roles are expected to work from the office 2-3 set days a week (determined by leadership/site), with a general guidepost of being in the office 50% or more of the time based on business needs.

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications

• 8 or more years of relevant work experience with a Bachelor Degree or at least 5 years of experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD) or 2 years of work experience with a PhD
• Knowledge and experience working with APIs.
• Strong experience in working with agile lifecycle and/or tracking and process management tools, e.g. JIRA, JIRA Align.

Preferred Qualifications

• 9 or more years of relevant work experience with a Bachelor Degree or 7 or more relevant years of experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD) or 3 or more years of experience with a PhD
• 8+ years of industry experience in a technology environment
• Proven ability to develop roadmaps, write user stories, groom product backlogs, and prioritize conflicting requirements in a dynamic environment.
• Ability to interpret explicit and implied business requirements, converting them into technical requirements with strong acceptance criteria.
• Team player with broad experience collaborating with subject matter experts, product teams, system architects and senior software engineers.
• Strong attention to details, ability to think strategically and independently.
• Outstanding communication ability including clearly and concisely communicating any project issues, risks to an executive audience.
• Strong customer centric mindset.

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 p