Solution Manager - Visa Direct

Visa; City Of London; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A global payments technology leader is seeking a Solution Manager in London. This hybrid role involves engaging with European Acquirers and Financial Institutions to drive the growth of Visa Direct payment solutions. The ideal candidate will have a mix of technical skills and commercial judgement, with significant experience in the payments sector. Excellent project management skills and proficiency in BI tools such as Tableau or Power BI are essential.

Qualifications

• Mid-level experience in a Programmer/Product role for new payment technologies.
• Significant experience working across European markets in the payments sector.
• Excellent communication and influencing skills, both written and verbal.

Responsibilities

• Engage European Acquirers and Financial Institutions to drive growth.
• Lead consultancy on Visa Direct origination best practices.
• Drive definition of technical solutions for partners.

Skills

Interpersonal skills

Technical proficiency

Commercial judgement

Analytical skills

Project management skills

Education

Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent work experience

Tools

Tableau

Power BI

Job description

Company Description

Visa is a world leader in payments and technology, with over 259 billion payments transactions flowing safely between consumers, merchants, financial institutions, and government entities in 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 while driven by a common purpose – to uplift everyone, everywhere by being the best way to pay and be paid.

Make an impact with a purpose-driven industry leader. Join us today and experience Life at Visa.

Job Description

Visa Direct is a payment service that Visa provides to clients (issuers, acquirers, processors, merchants and payment service providers) to facilitate fund transfers/disbursements to people around the world for Card, Account and Digital Wallets products. This role covers both sides of Visa Direct product – Card and Account/ Wallets.

The Solution Manager will play a critical role in the development of this rapidly growing business. Working as part of a growing team with a start-up culture, and supported by strong strategy, global product and technical teams, he/she will be responsible for providing consultancy services to originators and to identify, define, and initiate execution of real-time payment technical solutions - keeping in mind evolving market, client and consumer needs and with the objective of driving significant future market growth for Visa.

The role has direct responsibility for enablement of regional and local Europe region Acquirers. The role holder must possess a unique combination of technical skill, deep understanding of payments, mobile technology, processing, banking systems, consumer behavior, SLDC and Visa’s business. Key

Key responsibilities/accountabilities:

• Engage European Acquirers, Financial Institutions, PSPs, Processors, Merchants, and deliver agreed targets for Visa Direct enabler and originator enablement and growth
• Lead consultancy on best practices covering all aspects of Visa Direct origination for card, account and wallets solutions
• Work with clients and partners to drive enablement and setup optimization that will facilitate revenue growth
• Drive definition of technical solutions that meet partner and Visa growth objectives
• Contribute to the optimization of the current delivery framework and processes to accelerate time to revenue – identifying trends and proposing solutions for common client pain points
• Contribute to the product and process enhancements, identifying areas of improvements and implementing solutions
• Project manage and communicate the enablement and optimization of new and existing clients
• Report against OKRs of their portfolio of clients

This is a hybrid position. Expectation of days in the office will be confirmed by your Hiring Manager.

Qualifications

Preferred Qualifications:

• Relevant work experience with a Bachelor’s Degree or at least 2 years of work experience with an Advanced degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD) or 0 years of work experience with a PhD, OR 8+ years of relevant work experience.
• Mid-level experience in a Programmer/Product role for new payment product technologies and capabilities – including technical/commercial/advisory
• Ability to balance complex mix of interpersonal skills, technical proficiency, and commercial judgement to drive outcomes
• Significant experience simplifying the complex and removing commercial and technical barriers to execution
• Experience in engaging with 3rd party vendors
• Good understanding of the payments compliance landscape
• Significant experience working across European markets in the payments sector
• Excellent communication and influencing skills, both written and verbal
• Passion for future of payments
• Excellent analytical skills and exposure in the latest BI tools (e.g. Tableau, Power BI etc.)
• Solid understanding of modern technologies (e.g. APIs, cloud solutions etc.)
• Excellent Programmer/Project Management skills. Exposure in both Waterfall and Agile frameworks is a must
• Good understanding of the full Software Development Lifecycle
• Unbounded intellectual curiosity and bias for action
• Driven, resilient, with attention to detail, great with numbers and positive under pressure

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.