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.

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Job Description

Visa Direct is a payment service that Visa provides to clients (sending and receiving financial institutions, processors, merchants, and service providers) to facilitate fund transfers/disbursements to Visa accounts around the world using push payment technology. Visa Direct consumer and business applications include person-to-person (P2P) transfer, person to micro-business transfer (e.g., payouts to shared economy providers), funds disbursement (e.g., insurance claim disbursements), and more. The push payments market is estimated to be more than 80 Trillion Dollars of payment volume globally.

The Visa Direct product team is responsible for identifying and driving strategic enhancements to the Visa Direct platform. The portfolio team works closely with Product and technology team to drive prioritization and governance on investment decisions that align with Commercial Money Movement Solutions (CMS)and Visa Direct Strategy.

Job Description/Essential Functions

We are looking for an experienced Strategic Portfolio Manager who will execute aspects of strategic planning: supporting Product Managers through the process to drive the strategic build of the Product Portfolio and its roadmaps ensuring the value is clear and aligned to strategy.

Additionally, you play a key role in maturing the portfolio processes for Visa Direct by partnering with Technology PMO.

The right candidate is a self-starter, ready to learn and experiment, and able to work both independently and as part of a team. The candidate possesses an incredible ability to collaborate well with others and drive projects forward.

This role will be responsible for

• coordinating the strategic planning, reporting and analysis for Visa Direct’s Portfolio of Products in its quarterly and annual cadences, building and automating reporting.

• Creating and Maintaining planning calendars and deliverables

• Coordinating stakeholder touchpoints to build portfolios of work items aligned with value and ensure data quality standards are met.

• help develop product roadmaps, ensuring value delivery and data quality in each work item.

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 supports and works directly with the Visa Direct Product Managers to bring the product vision to life and deliver upon it.

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.

Qualifications

Preferred Qualifications
• Superior analytical and problem-solving skills to synthesize and communicate complex information effectively.
• Excellent verbal and written communications skills, ability to quickly master new systems and/or processes, and the capacity to stay organized while managing competing priorities
• Ability to independently drive projects through to completion
• Drive complex deliverables in collaboration with Product Managers and cross-functional stakeholders at all levels
• Prior hands-on experience in a product development environment leveraging Agile practices and expert knowledge of PMO, Portfolio Management, or Release Train Engineer Roles.
• Ability to function effectively in a fast-paced environment and manage multiple projects simultaneously
• Ability to plan and prioritize multiple tasks effectively, and to independently drive projects through to completion
• Strength in building partnerships, working collaboratively in a matrix with minimal guidance, proven influencing skills
• Proven ability to measuring performance OKRs through data insights, automating reporting, creating roadmaps, and supporting strategic planning events.
• Ability to embrace change and ambiguity in an ecosystem that is rapidly evolving.
• Ability to analyse large data sets, interpret ambiguous situations, and make recommendations.
• Payment domain or FinTech experience is a major plus


Additional Qualifications & Experience
• JIRA, Jira Align and PowerBI
• SharePoint / Wiki
• Advanced-level knowledge of Microsoft Office Suite applications

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.