VP, Global Head of Products & Networks -Visa Direct

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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About Visa Direct

Visa Direct is a payment network that Visa provides to clients (issuers, acquirers, processors, merchants, and service providers) to facilitate fund transfers and disbursements to cards and 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, cross border remittance and funds disbursements (e.g., marketplace seller payouts, insurance claim disbursements, acquirer merchant settlement).

Visa Direct enables Visa to have access to 99% of the banked adults in the top 50 markets around the world. This its being accomplished through an integration between Visa Direct and the platform acquired from Earthport now renamed Visa Payments Limited (VPL)

Visa Direct offers now the ability to send to card, send to account and soon send to digital wallets. Visa Direct is designed to support the needs of a large segment of originators that Visa has not historically been able to work with, namely Corporate and Treasury Banks and Cross Border Remitters.

Visa Direct also offers Alias Directory and other Value-Added Services, to enrich the money movement transactions.

About the Role – Head of Products & Networks for Visa Direct

The main objective of this role is to rationalize the legacy and acquired capabilities into a single operating platform to deliver a fast, secure, and efficient money movement network, for the send and receiving of funds domestic and cross border. Design and define the best product and information architecture to facilitate money movement through multiple end points. Integrate assets, functionalities and capabilities that exist today across the various Visa assets that make up Visa Direct to develop a consistent, holistic, and integrated value proposition. This leader will design and define the platform strategy for Visa Direct as an overarching platform for money movement inside Visa.

Key Responsibilities

• Strategic planning and management of the entire Visa Direct Platform Portfolio
• Definition and alignment of the vision, strategy, and roadmap, to establish Visa Direct as a key player in the money movement space
• Set the platform strategy and direction across the business units and the interaction with treasury services, Value Added Services group, and other internal partners
• Drive platform development efforts by actively partnering with the Technology team and other product groups to generate innovating solutions to client needs
• Define and execute the integrated API, Client Onboarding, Transaction Lifecyle and Payment Operations Management roadmaps across business units (VPL, YP, VD)
• Adopt an agile mindset to oversee the team's product development efforts, ensuring the final product is functional, well documented, operational, and meets design and feature specifications
• Partner with the Visa Direct business unit leaders to ensure successful delivery of client solutions and the product roadmap. 
• Partner with treasury teams, operational teams, digital platforms, commercial teams, and clients in key growth areas for Visa Direct
• Define and consistently measure quantifiable goals, key metrics, and launching timelines.
• Define resource allocation, investment and the proper business cases to secure revenue generation and acceleration to time to market
• This leader will oversee the multiple platform teams across business units in a dotted and solid line reporting structure
• Accelerate time to revenue by challenging status quo and driving efficiencies in key areas like Client Onboarding and Network expansion.
• Reviewing and developing tools to improve the efficiency of the teame mandates with regards to cash management, funding optimization, liquidity, settlement fx management

Technical & Leadership Skills

• Strong collaboration skills and the ability to work in a matrix environment.
• Strong product management skills to focus on a customer first mindset, lean product thinking and a focus on product adoption
• A track record demonstrating a high level of personal initiative, setting, and executing challenging goals, and demonstrating an agile mindset
• Ability to foster and develop strong relationships with internal and external clients
• Strong knowledge of international money movement standards and demonstrated understanding of macro regulatory trends within the financial services and money transfer sector
• A propensity towards action and focusing on delivering client solutions
• Ability to facilitate strong partnerships with both clients & partners
• Ability to manage end-to-end client integrations and drive embedded client solutions
• Strong project management, analytical, detail oriented, problem solving, and communication skills with both internal and external partners
• Passion for creatively solving problems and an entrepreneurial spirit
• Ability to adeptly pivot opportunities based on new information and market opportunities
• Strong communication and presentation skills (i. e. creating content) that can be consumed at all levels for both internal and external audiences
• Key influencing skills working across multiple teams to deliver our vision

Work Hours: Varies upon the needs of the department.

Travel Requirements: This position requires travel 5-10% of the time.

Mental/Physical Requirements: This position will be performed in an office setting.The position will require the incumbent to sit and stand at a desk, communicate in person and by telephone, frequently operate standard office equipment, such as telephones and computers.

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.

Visa will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with applicable local law, including the requirements of Article 49 of the San Francisco Police Code.