Technical Product Manager

Visa; London; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking company as a Technical Product Manager where you'll leverage your technical expertise and product ownership skills. In this hybrid role, you will work closely with engineering teams to build robust payment processing platforms while driving process improvements and ensuring customer satisfaction. Your experience in product management, coupled with your proficiency in JavaScript and API technologies, will enable you to define clear product requirements and lead user acceptance testing. This is an exciting opportunity to make a significant impact in a purpose-driven industry leader, where innovation and collaboration are at the heart of everything we do.

Qualifications

• 5+ years experience in product management or related fields.
• Proficient in JavaScript, React, and Node.js for development.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with teams to build scalable payment processing platforms.
• Define product requirements and manage project communications.

Skills

Product Management

JavaScript

TypeScript

React

Node.js

API Testing

Agile Methodologies

Analytical Skills

Problem-Solving

Customer Communication

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Advanced Degree

Tools

Jira Align

Rally

Postman

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Company Description

Visa is a world leader in payments and technology, with over 259 billion payment 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

The newly formed Solution Validation Growth (SVG) team within Consumer payments is looking for an individual with a technical bent of mind and interest in product ownership to help us continue to grow and launch new features and services. This role reports to Validation vertical within SVG.

The Technical Product Manager requires hands-on experience which includes the following responsibilities:

• Work closely with Visa's technology and product teams to understand new business initiatives as well as the impact on current and new client projects and build Validation platform for Sandbox and Production, be the Product owner for the Validation platform.
• Discuss technical implementation details with architects and other technical teams.
• Collaborate with engineering teams to build robust, reliable, and scalable payment processing platforms.
• Proactively identify and recommend opportunities for process improvement resulting in improved efficiency and effectiveness, cost/benefit analysis and increased customer satisfaction.
• Build and enhance positive working relationships with internal and external stakeholders.
• Prepare and maintain detailed project artifacts, including project plans, status reports, meeting minutes, issues logs in support of client projects and/or initiatives.
• Manage internal and external project communications (meeting minutes, dashboards, etc.), providing regular and consistent updates to appropriate parties.
• Report on client project accomplishments and deliverables to management and different stakeholders.
• Lead the User Acceptance Test strategy.
• Define product/technical requirements which involve writing clear, thorough, and detailed user stories for complex features and product sets.
• Work very closely with development and QA organization to ensure technical specifications and final product meet business requirements.
• Support the development team in building deliverables in accordance with compliance, security and quality standards for Visa required deliverables and the card payment ecosystem.
• Participate in daily scrum meetings for the teams executing on projects being driven.
• This position may require off-scheduled work including late evenings/weekends in support of client and company configuration changes and associated post-production validation.

This is a hybrid position. Hybrid employees can alternate time between both remote and office. Employees in hybrid roles are expected to work from the office 2-3 set days a week (determined by leadership/site), with a general guidepost of being in the office 50% or more of the time based on business needs.

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications:

5 or more years of work experience with a bachelor's degree or 3 or more years of relevant experience with an Advanced Degree in the job offered or in a related product manager, systems analyst, or software engineer occupation. Experience with product management software tools such as Rally and Jira Align. Familiarity with the software development lifecycle in an e-commerce or web environment. Technical implementations of medium-large scale, highly available, robust web or mobile applications. Experienced in technology design of new solutions. Technical experience in managing products built using Java technologies, API (SOAP & REST), Web & Mobile Development. Hands-on experience in developing roadmaps, writing user stories, grooming product backlogs, and coordinating/prioritizing conflicting requirements in a fast-paced, ever-changing environment. Proficiency working in an agile environment. Experience working in the Payments space.

Skills/Preferred Qualifications:

Must be proficient in writing code and building POCs, ideally using JavaScript/TypeScript, React, and Node.js. Must have experience in scripting for API testing tools such as Postman or similar. Must have experience building front-end and back-end applications. Expert in web service standards and related patterns (REST, gRPC). Solid understanding of database technologies including SQL. Proven analytical and problem-solving skills. Ability to respond resourcefully to new demands, priorities, and challenges. Experience in Identity solutions like oAuth, OpenID Connect, SAML, security tokens (JWS, JWE, access token, id token) or other IAM. Must have Cryptographic knowledge & Key Management. Basic understanding of B2B API integration. Customer-facing (communicative) skills. Analytical mind - curious mindset with an interest in solving problems alongside strong analytical and quantitative skills, driving insight from data analysis. Ability to shift priorities and demonstrate proactive willingness to help others. Understanding of how decisions may affect other teams and contribute to overall objectives.

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.