Senior Director, Service Experience

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.

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This Senior Director role is a management position responsible for leading a team, and in partnership with Risk and Identity Solutions, leading the design, enablement and continuous improvement (end-to-end) service experience for products across the GARP business. This includes

Strategic Leadership & Service Design

• Lead the overall service experience for network, authentication, and identity products, from implementation through ongoing support, incident management, and off boarding, across all regions and client segments.
• Develop and execute service models that support rapid product delivery, scalable operational efficiency, and measurable client impact, embedding GenAI and modern tools to drive transformation.
• Collaborate with Product, Technology, and Client Services to ensure service models are client-centric, secure, and aligned with Visa’s Living Strategy for Risk & Identity Solutions.

Operational Excellence & Delivery

• Deliver on financial targets and support long-term growth in line with Visa strategic objectives, including revenue acceleration, cost management, and M&A integration for network and identity solutions.
• Lead the development of necessary documentation, training, tracking to ensure global alignment of service models with regional differentiation. 
• Streamline processes (eg. incident management and root cause analysis), across teams to ensure accountability and drive closed-loop follow-up with product.

Innovation & Product Enablement

• Embed GenAI and advanced analytics into service processes to unlock productivity gains, smarter sales enablement, and improved user experience.
• Partner with Product to define and track KPIs for all new launches, ensuring quantifiable ROI and rapid client implementation.
• Support the commercialization and launch of cybersecurity and identity products, including integration of new capabilities and expansion of client training programs.

​​​​​​​Stakeholder Engagement & Go-to-Market

• Build and maintain strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders, including regional teams, partners, and clients.
• Enable delivery of RaIS strategy through strategic partnerships and channel go-to-market pilots.
• Develop consistent framework for global Client Services resourcing model to deliver optimal service experience driving alignment across stakeholder group.

​​​​​​​Talent & Culture

• Develop and mentor a high-performing, diverse team, fostering a culture of accountability, transparency, and growth.
• Champion Visa Leadership Principles, driving employee engagement, inclusion, and career development.
• Ensure talent alignment to organizational design metrics and service/product expectations.

This is a hybrid position. Expectation of days in office will be confirmed by your Hiring Manager.

Basic Qualifications:

• 12 or more years of work experience with a Bachelor’s Degree or at least 10 years of work experience with an Advanced degree (e.g. Masters/MBA /JD/MD), or a minimum of 5 years of work experience with a PhD
• Demonstrated leadership in matrix management environments.
• Strong verbal, written, presentation, and interpersonal skills.
• Technical aptitude in network, authentication, and identity solutions.

Preferred Qualifications:

• 15 or more years of experience with a Bachelor’s Degree or 12 years of experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, or MD), PhD with 9+ years of experience
• Proven track record in leading technical/professional services teams to exceed goals.
• Experience in building strong business relationships, influencing at all organizational levels.
• Serves as point of senior escalation for internal and external stakeholders for multiple product lines and engages in executive level relationship building with signature and high-touch client leadership.
• Identify opportunities to improve organizational processes, leads initiatives and drives changes that result in measurable and sustained improvement in cost, quality, and/or stakeholder experience.
• Identify opportunities to improve organizational processes, leads initiatives and drives changes that result in measurable and sustained improvement in cost, quality, and/or stakeholder experience
• Drives product/process improvement requests with cross-functional teams.
• Identifies and leads complex initiatives and successfully translate broad strategies into specific objectives and action plans, aligning efforts of the organization with other key Visa stakeholders.
• Strategic ability to solve complex, cross-functional issues and lead high-impact initiatives.
• Experience in bankcard technology, project management, and supporting complex clients/services.
• Success in driving change, delivering results in dynamic environments, and leading cross-organizational initiatives.
• Must be a self-starter and highly motivated business oriented independent thinker.
• Relationship building and management both internally and externally
• Important to understand how products are used by clients and impacts to their business when there are issues

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 position will require the incumbent to sit and stand at a desk, communicate in person and by telephone, frequently operate standard office equipment, such as telephones and computers.

Visa is an EEO Employer.  Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability or protected veteran status.  Visa will also consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with EEOC guidelines and applicable local law.

Visa will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with applicable local law, including the requirements of Article 49 of the San Francisco Police Code.

U.S. APPLICANTS ONLY: The estimated salary range for a new hire into this position is 189,800.00 to 296,550.00 USD per year, which may include potential sales incentive payments (if applicable). Salary may vary depending on job-related factors which may include knowledge, skills, experience, and location. In addition, this position may be eligible for bonus and equity. Visa has a comprehensive benefits package for which this position may be eligible that includes Medical, Dental, Vision, 401 (k), FSA/HSA, Life Insurance, Paid Time Off, and Wellness Program.