Senior Director - Clearing Services Product Management - job 14 of 28

We are looking for a creative and entrepreneurial product leader to help build the payments infrastructure that will allow the next generation of payment service providers to flourish and grow.  As the head of Clearing Services, you will reimagine how our processing clients settle transactions with the card networks, as we continue to deliver on our mission of delivering essential payment processing services, as a suite of specialized cloud services, operating at next-level speed, scale and service level. These a la carte payment web services will allow payment service providers, across the globe, large and small, to spin up a secure, scaled payment processing engine, as easily as starting up an instance of cloud compute today.  You will collaborate with cross functional stakeholders including Visa technology teams, regional solutions teams, customer service and sales teams to jointly leverage our respective strengths. You will also engage a partner ecosystem to build flexible delivery models across the globe.  You should possess knowledge and experience of acquirer settlement processes, with at least three card brands, including network submission, merchant funding and acquirer reconciliation. You will have a vision for conceptualizing and developing innovative solutions that simultaneously address deep customer challenges, surpass current market offerings, and advance Visa’s business strategy. Dedication to championing the voice of the customer and delivering pioneering solutions utilizing cutting-edge payment technology is a must. You should have a track record of successfully launching new products within a sizable organization, from ideation to implementation, with a focus on automation. 

As part of your role, you will operate in a matrixed environment, requiring the ability to communicate persuasively through both written and verbal means, to align stakeholders and executives on business cases and objectives.

Responsibilities

• Own the overall strategy and roadmap for the Acceptance Solutions clearing and settlement product suite, including partner management, stakeholder collaboration, product requirements, and new product introduction. 
• Build buy-in from senior executives and key stakeholders with persuasive storytelling that brings to life the customer need, business value proposition, and revenue opportunity. 
• Create an environment that fosters a continuous focus on customer and market needs, creative thinking, experimentation, and learning. 
• Use metrics-driven approach to test new hypothesis and product initiatives. Encourage teams to pursue bold ideas and be fearless to fail fast and develop alternate solutions when necessary. 
• Enable and empower a team to drive product decisions based on data, user tests, and experience. Make time/functionality tradeoffs quickly and ensure consistent execution of product plans that result in on-time and on-budget product delivery, partner with Technology to execute on a global roadmap and ensure prompt responses to urgent issues that are client and revenue impacting. 
• Gain a comprehensive understanding of the diverse range of products and solutions that Visa provides to its clients and partners such as merchants, banks, fin-techs, and big-techs. 
• Collaborate with solutions and sales leaders to learn about their market needs and leverage insights, trends, and payment experiences from different regions in developing new solutions. 

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

Locations: Foster City, CA or Bellevue, WA