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

The Product Manager will be a part of a group that oversees several product line contributions as a business unit. This extends from increasing the success of existing products to developing new products and features for the company. The individual will be responsible for issuer products business and have a broad product responsibility, as well as the strategy, roadmap, and feature definition of a product or product line. The role will work with cross-functional teams and may include marketing, sales, technology, support and other commercialization responsibilities. This role spans many types of activities, from strategic to tactical. A Product Manager provides cross-functional leadership and bridges organizational gaps between different functional groups, most often between engineering, technical product, marketing, sales, and support.

Essential Functions:

• Support and execute product strategy and business requirement for new features or products

• Manage a group of products, and support features of products

• Provide leadership and project direction to others within the group

• Create product strategy and business requirement for new features or products

• Be responsible for product vision and continuous improvement of features and/or products

• Lead and obtain strategic buy-in from internal and external stakeholders.

• Interface with the Technical Product Managers to ensure the development and functional requirements deliver the overall business vision

• Communicate key messages and engage effectively with many diverse functional stakeholders through the product lifecycle.

• Interface with Sales, Marketing, and Product Delivery to develop successful product pilots and measure results

• Actively seek customer and market input and data as a source of product innovation

• Act as the SME during initial roll-out and provide support when needed

• Responsible for continuous improvement of product post-commercialization

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:
• 5 or more years of relevant work experience with a Bachelor's Degree or at
least 2 years of work experience with an Advanced degree (e.g. Masters, MBA,
JD, MD) or 0 years of work experience with a PhD

Preferred Qualifications:
• 6 or more years of work experience with a Bachelor's Degree or 4 or more
years of relevant experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD,
MD) or up to 3 years of relevant experience with a PhD
• In lieu of degree, a high school diploma/equivalent with five or more years
related experience and/or training or equivalent combination of education and
experience will be considered.
• Ability to work some flexible hours due to varying time zones across Visa’s
regions.
• Possess a unique blend of business and technically savvy. Balance between
big-picture vision and the ability to execute, transforming that vision into
reality.
• Successfully handle multiple priorities against tight deadlines
• Ability to analyze the market to understand their problems and find innovative
solutions for the broader market
• Adept direct and indirect leadership skills.
• Proficient in running cross-functional meetings to clarify, define, and track
client and market opportunities
• Strong communicator capable of developing clear and concise messaging
from complex or technical ideas
• Financial acumen. Demonstrates an understanding of core business drivers
that influence the operational and financial results of a program or commercial
release
• Strategic, well-organized individual that pays attention to details
• Proven leadership capabilities including strong thought leadership, effective
decision making, and ability to drive for resul