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.

Join Visa: A Network Working for Everyone.

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.This role will report to the Product Manager and shall:

• Lead multiple product development work streams across the business.
• Direct and support a team of business analysts.
• Work with business stakeholders to elicit, analyse, communicate and validate requirements for changes to business processes, policies, information and systems to achieve final technology/business solution.
• Work with stakeholders to understand the business objectives and translate these into requirements to create the product roadmap.
• Ensure the Product Backlog is visible, transparent, and clear to all, including dependencies and priorities based on the overall strategy.
• Assists with the elaboration of Epics, Themes and Features into user stories that are granular enough to be achieved in a single sprint.
• Review QA test results before releasing to UAT.
• Support testing, training and implementation activities, identify and document emerging business requirements to ensure the successful delivery of the overall business and technology solutions.
• Facilitate in providing estimates for user stories, bug fixes, spikes, etc.
• Attend and participate in agile ceremonies.

What we're after...

• 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

Think you have what it takes?

If you are interested in a career that will challenge and inspire you - we’d love to hear from you!

Diversity & Inclusion

Universal acceptance for everyone, everywhere, is not only our brand promise, it’s the foundation of our company culture. We foster a feeling of connectedness in the workplace, support diversity of thought, culture and background, fight for important initiatives like Equal Pay and actively work to eliminate unconscious biases that hold us all back.

By leveraging the diverse backgrounds and perspectives of our worldwide teams, Visa is a better place to work and a better business partner to our clients.