Sr. Manager, Strategic Initiatives - Global Products & Initiatives

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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Visa’s Global Products & Initiatives (GP&I) organization is responsible for Visa’s consumer payments product portfolio, including products like Credit, Debit, Visa Flex Credential, and Visa Payment Passkey. We are seeking a Senior Manager on the Strategy & Operations team, who will play a critical role in enabling the GP&I organization to deliver against our 2030 goals.

This role will lead and support key strategic initiatives across consumer payments including, but not limited to, affluent, e-commerce, and executing on our Global Product Drop. This is a highly collaborative and strategic role working closely with partners across Product, Strategy, GTM, and Regional teams.

Essential Functions

• Lead or support high impact strategy projects and initiatives across GP&I, such as Visa’s affluent strategy, and ecommerce roadmap

• Support end-to-end orchestration of Visa’s Global Product Drop including identifying products to feature, creating external narratives, building product demos & coordinating execution across Product, Events, Comms, Marketing and Design

• Structure and solve business problems, collaborating with a range of internal stakeholders across regions and functions to advance initiatives and ensure alignment

• Inform the development of unique, creative, and impactful products and solutions by integrating insights across Visa’s functional resources

• Develop rigorous, data-backed, quantitative and qualitative analyses to ensure strategic and financial soundness of decisions and recommendations

• Build strong relationships across product, regional, and cross-functional teams

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

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

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
• Background in management consulting, product management, investment banking, or equivalent
• Experience in and/or significant exposure to the payments, financial services or technology sectors is a plus
• Ability to independently lead and manage complex, cross-functional projects, with proven leadership success over a wide variety of functional business problems
• Superior strategic thinking, analytical, and problem-solving skills, with demonstrated intellectual and analytical rigor and attention to detail
• Executive presence and ability to clearly communicate compelling messages to senior stakeholders and external business partners
• Self-starter, team oriented, collaborative, diplomatic, and flexible, with excellent presentation skills, including strong oral and writing capabilities
• Passion for the payments industry and a desire to deliver impactful, customer-centric products and solutions

Work Authorization: Permanent Authorization to work in the U.S. is a precondition of employment for this position. Visa will not sponsor applicants for work visas in connection with this position.

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 149,800.00 to 217,550.00 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.