Product Owner - Visa Payments Ltd

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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What's it all about?

The Product team are responsible for creating and building a world class cross-border payments solution, supporting a portfolio of products and adding sustainable value to the business. 

As a Product Owner you will be the subject matter expert who works closely with the Product Manager and Agile Team.You will deliver the functionality and associated user experience of the system, from definition to implementation, through to optimisation. You will take the high level priorities from Product Manager and determine the detail of what needs to be delivered together with the prioritisation which will demonstrate maximum business value as early as possible.You will ensure that prioritisation is carried through to delivery, working with the agile teams to identify dependencies and blockers to ensure that decisions are made which represent the product vision and stakeholders interest.As the representative of the Product Stakeholder you will translate the business objectives into clearly articulated user stories, ensuring that the business objective is understood by all teams at every stage of the development.

What we expect of you, day to day.

This role will report to the Product Manager and be responsible for turning the product vision, strategy and design into reality. This role requires an experienced Product Owner with deep payments experience and a proven ability to deliver:

Building, prioritising and maintaining team backlogs

• Translate business objectives into user stories to create the team backlog through collaboration with stakeholders
• Ensure the backlog is prioritised in line with the business objectives

Story Elaboration 

• Elicit, analyse, communicate and validate user stories for changes to business processes, policies, information and systems to achieve technology/business solution
• Assists with the decomposition of epics into features and features into user stories 
• Ensure stories are clearly captured and understood by the agile team

Overseeing Development Stage

• Contributes to the planning and review of each iteration
• Assisting the team and collaborating on sizing and planning activities
• Works with team to refine and improve the development process
• Attends and participates in agile ceremonies

Evaluates Story Progress 

• Accepts the stories as done
• Confirms the acceptance criteria has been met
• Has sufficient acceptance tests
• Meets the teams DoD

Liaison between Product Manager and Agile Team

• Work with Product Manager to understand the business objectives and priorities
• Participate in program backlog refinement
• Owns and reports on progress of the overall backlog

SME in business functional area

• Understand the business area and processes
• Support testing, training and implementation activities

• Bachelor's Degree or equivalent professional experience
• 2+ years in a product ownership, or scrum master in an agile team
• 3+ years Business Analysis Skills
• Successful track record of working with cross-functional teams
• Practical knowledge of Agile methodology and proven implementation
• Excellent communication skills and stakeholder management with an ability to translate business needs to a technical team
• Results orientated, continues to work toward achievement of goals in the face of obstacles readily integrating changes into work processes and outputs
• Demonstrate in-depth knowledge of cross border payments, payment standards, scheme rules, payment processing technologies and regulations
• Proven experience working in an Agile methodology environment (e.g. SCRUM, DSDM, Lean/Kanban).
• Strong communications skills, able to bridge the gap between business (product manager, business BA) and technical teams.
• Data flow process mapping, data transformation, migration and reconciliation.
• Good technical understanding of web applications and APIs.
• Great intellectual agility and attention to detail.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills across different disciplines both written and oral.
• Open to feedback, able to deal with ambiguity and work on multiple concurrent activities.
• Experience working with teams with resources in remote locations is an advantage.
• Working experience in using Jira and Confluence.
• Able to work and manage scrum teams that are geographically dispersed and across time zones
• User centric delivery experience, ideally having worked and delivered product features in the past.
• Ability to build and maintain strong relationships with both internal and external stakeholders at varying levels of seniority using a collaborative approach.
• Ability to work independently, priorities workload to meet deadlines and work well under pressure.

Visa will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with EEOC guidelines and applicable local law.