Strategic Analyst, Market Development & Commercialization

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 Market Development & Commercialization Analyst will be part of the Global Data Office (GDO) team, which helps Visa solve critical business issues and take advantage of strategic opportunities through data-centric solutions. Initiatives span across data functions providing the Analyst a unique “birds-eye” view of the organization and broad professional exposure.

The Analyst will contribute to bringing data priorities to life by conceptualizing, defining, building, and growing data-centered solutions to deliver business outcome. Each initiative is different and requires a unique approach from short-term sprints to longer-term engagements. The team operates on an agile basis, with Analysts working with different GDO leaders across multiple initiatives. Initial projects will focus on developing innovative new product concepts based on consumer and client needs.

The ideal candidate will have a range of product, strategy, and technology experience with hands-on problem-solving and solutions development in a highly collaborative, cross-functional environment. The role requires the person to be comfortable with ambiguity, be a creative and independent thinker, analytically minded, and a self-starter.

We work hard, deliver results, and have fun together along the way! 

Responsibilities

• Lead market research, competitive analysis, and industry trends reviews to identify innovation opportunities for the GDO to consider and develop into solutions

• Contribute to multiple projects with integrated and distributed teams led by the GDO

• Absorb new topics and concepts quickly to effectively contribute to efforts across variety of domains

• Complete fact-based research and analysis, interpret the results, develop a point-of-view, and translating conclusions into executive-level or external thought-leadership content

• Demonstrate knowledge of capabilities and technologies in a payments ecosystem and the ability to apply them in a range of situations from ideation to solution. The ideal candidate has experience developing product specifications, product roadmaps, or engaging with technology

• Develop detailed project plans, define tasks and timelines, to ensure accountability and action

• Surpass expectations on initiative taking, follow through, and delivering results on time

• Collaborate with colleagues using communication, creativity, and intellect

• Be grounded in curiosity – always seeking to understand other points of views to create informed hypotheses

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.

Relocation assistance is not provided for this role.

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications:
• 2 or more years of work experience with a Bachelor’s Degree or an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD, or PhD)

Preferred Qualifications:
• 3 or more years of work experience with a Bachelor’s Degree or more than 2 years of work experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD)
• 1-2 years of experience in payments, product, strategy, or management consulting. Exposure to technology aspects of product development is definite a plus
• Demonstrated ability to “ramp-up” quickly, participate multiple workstreams
at the same time, and work with sense of urgency
• Must have a mindset that embraces creativity, optimism, ambiguity, and adaptivity. Quick to focus, quick to pivot, and driven to deliver
• Proven ability to work on complex and often ambiguous problems
• Excellent project management skills, organization, and detail orientation
• Analytical