Director - Growth Products and Partnerships

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

As a Director within the Growth Products team, you will be responsible for driving an ongoing narrative for Visa’s suite of consumer products in card and non-card payments.  You will be both a student learning from others internally and externally, and a teacher to those internally and externally. The right candidate will be an enthusiastic follower of key trends spanning consumer financial services, fintech and technology (e.g., AI, account-based payments, digital identity, wallets), and is comfortable researching new topics, establishing an informed perspective, and applying ideas to Visa’s business model and ecosystem.

The role requires a balanced mix of outstanding writing and editing skills as part of overall content strategy, project management across external parties and cross-functional stakeholders, creative execution, and thought leadership. Successful candidates will have shown and can clearly demonstrate strong business and product acumen, deep payments industry experience, familiarity with macro trends in the financial and technology ecosystems, synthesis of complex problems and ideas through clear deliverables, building consensus and a proven track record of fast-paced transitions from strategic thinking to execution.

This role includes understanding in depth both Visa capabilities, needs, and goals and the realities and trends driving growth and change in our industry – and how that change impacts our strategic priorities. This is an opportunity to join Visa’s newly created Growth Products and Partnerships team, which matches technology-forward global partners with product-oriented partnership opportunities.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Drive an ongoing internal and external narrative for Visa’s suite of consumer products as well as be the convergence point for clients determining the right format to deliver the narrative
• Identify long-term growth opportunities and inform Visa’s long-term product roadmap, in collaboration with a wide range of internal stakeholders
• Develop content strategy for Visa’s product showcase at various forums, which will include producing high-impacting content and unified narratives in partnership with stakeholders, identifying content opportunities, and amplifying the voice of our partners
• Orchestrate and project manage full life-cycle content operations including roadmap, activity coordination and administration of day-of activities, and managing escalations timely
• Develop a dedicated network of product experts for concept and project delivery
• Liaise with external vendors as primary contact in support of managing activities

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications:

• 10 or more years of work experience with a Bachelor’s Degree or at least 8 years of work experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters/ MBA/JD/MD) or at least 3 years of work experience with a PhD

Preferred Qualifications:

• 12 or more years of work experience with a Bachelor’s Degree or 8-10 years of experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD) or 6+ years of work experience with a PhD
• Experience 'managing up', building Executive Level communications and delivering presentations
• Strong storytelling capabilities and articulating complex technical concepts to wide range of personas with varying levels of technical expertise
• A passion for improving financial services
• Ability to work within a complex and often ambiguous environment, and to influence senior management and other relevant parties
• Soft skills including genuine and open communication, active listening, compassionate, and inspires others
• Self-starter who is driven and can find ways to move things forward, with ability to connect dots on complex ecosystem, across dozens of products and hundreds of prospects and potential partners
• Leads by example, including enthusiasm and takes pride in their work, with a strong bias towards action

Additional Information

Work Hours: Varies upon the needs of the department.

Travel Requirements: This position requires travel 5-10% of