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.

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Job Description

We are looking for an experienced Senior program manager or  Senior project manager to combine successful product development process experience with effective collaboration, facilitation, leadership, and technical skills.  This role will be responsible for coordinating the launch and growth of the Visa Direct Payouts Service across a wide range of workstreams including Technology, Risk, Compliance, Legal, Regulatory, Operations, Implementation, Client Service and Product. The Product Launch role is accountable for timely and high-quality execution and delivery from original concept through final implementation. This position requires working with teams that follow Agile practices as well as traditional methodologies.  This is NOT a technical program management role. This role will work directly with the Visa Direct Payouts Global Product Leads to bring the product vision to life.

Develop integrated plans and schedules to track progress and dependencies with other functions and external partiesDrive the execution of deliverables across multiple teams and functionsCoordinate work for geographically distributed teams utilizing Proactively identify and mitigate risks and issues, dependencies and impactsProvide timely and accurate reporting on product launch progress to all stakeholders  Facilitate planning and execution of workstreams working in collaboration with workstream leadsInteract confidently and collaborate with various stakeholders including Management, Product teams, developers, architects, operation and security teamsParticipate in continuous improvement efforts by providing input into a framework for program management aligned with modern agile, lean and design thinking practices

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

Qualifications

• Prior hands-on experience in a product development environment leveraging Agile practices and expert knowledge of Project Management and SDLC principles.
• Experience in a PMO environment strongly preferred
• Ability to function effectively in a fast-paced environment and manage multiple projects simultaneously
• Ability to negotiate priorities across organizations as required, to plan and prioritize multiple tasks effectively, and to independently drive projects through to completion
• Strong communication skills and the ability to work well with other departments and varying levels of management. Must be able to dive deep into technical details with project teams and zoom out to understand and communicate the big picture.
• Strong executive presence and experience advising and interfacing business leadership on technology related issues, excellent executive-level verbal, and written communication
• Strength in building partnerships, working collaboratively in a matrix with minimal guidance, proven influencing skills
• Payment domain or FinTech experience is a major plus

Additional Information

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.