Network Product Owner, Manager

Visa; Singapore; Hybrid; SGD 100,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading payments technology company is seeking a Network Product Owner to oversee network expansion at Visa Payments. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in the payment industry and product ownership within agile teams. Responsibilities include defining product strategy, engaging with stakeholders, and maintaining a prioritized product backlog. This hybrid role emphasizes collaboration and innovation to enhance cross-border payment services.

Benefits

Market leading salary

Wellness programs

Agile work schedules

Qualifications

• Min 8 years’ experience in payment industry, FX, cross border payments.
• Proficiency in English; Mandarin and other Asian languages are advantageous.
• Strong problem-solving skills for cross-border payment processes.

Responsibilities

• Define and communicate product vision for alignment with goals.
• Engage with stakeholders to gather requirements throughout lifecycle.
• Maintain and prioritize product backlog for development team.
• Ensure high-quality user experience by gathering feedback.
• Present product feature demos to stakeholders.

Skills

Experience in payment industry

Product ownership or scrum master experience

Agile methodology experience

Excellent communication skills

Problem-solving skills

Education

Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent

Tools

Basic Java knowledge

Understanding of XML/JSON

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

Our mission is to connect the world through the most innovative, reliable and secure digital payment network that enables individuals, businesses and economies to thrive.

Individuality fuels our brand and our global team – we’re proud that we are a talented team of 15,000 individuals with unique backgrounds, perspectives and experiences. Therefore, we understand that you are much more than your day job. We encourage quality of life outside of the office, whether it’s taking advantage of agile work schedules or our wellness programs, Visa respects and encourages meaningful work/life balance for everyone. In addition, we offer market leading salary and have a fantastic benefits offering.

So, if you’re not satisfied with the status quo, we can satisfy your desire to explore new territory, giving you the runway to really make an impact, whilst connecting you with teams around the world in a truly inclusive culture that celebrates our uniqueness.

Visa Payments Limited is a division of Visa Direct, with a team working on the cross-border pay to account processing capability of Visa Direct.

By joining one of our teams at Visa Payments Limited, a division of Visa Inc since 2019, you’ll be part of an exciting payment solution, helping to shape the payments experience globally.

If you think you could support Visa as a Network Product Owner, Manager, we want to hear from you – together, let’s make Visa a great place to work.

What’s it all about?

The Network Integrations Team for Accounts in Visa Direct is responsible for the seamless integration of Visa Direct services with various financial institutions and payment network partners. We enable cross-border payments across the world ensuring that Visa Direct’s capabilities are effectively deployed, maintained, and optimized to facilitate quick, secure and reliable transactions.

This role focuses on Network Expansion. Key responsibilities includes supporting and completing key service integration activities, gathering and interpreting business requirements and identifying and building improvements to Visa’s cross border network offering.

What we expect of you, day to day

• Clearly define and communicate the product vision and strategy to ensure alignment with business goals and stakeholder expectations.
• Actively engage with stakeholders to gather requirements, provide updates, and ensure their needs are met throughout the product lifecycle.
• Be a key driver of the Accounts Network Expansion engaging with external partners contributing to Visa Direct’s strategy
• Maintain a well-prioritized and transparent product backlog, ensuring that it reflects the most valuable features and tasks for the development team. Lead agile/scaled agile ceremonies, such as sprint planning and daily stand-ups
• Make informed decisions regarding product features, prioritisation, and trade-offs, balancing technical feasibility, business value, and customer impact.
• Ensure the product delivers a high-quality user experience by understanding customer needs, gathering feedback, and iterating on features based on user insights. Drive the standardisation of business and integration analysis across multiple markets and countries
• Collaborate to set standards and improve data practices across Visa Direct and refine requirements for Payment Network partner integrations
• Present complex and critical network feature demos to relevant Visa Direct stakeholders during sprint demos

This is a hybrid position. Expectation of days in office will be confirmed by your hiring manager.

Qualifications

• Min 8 years’ experience in payment industry, FX, cross border payments, SWIFT payments, ACH payments, ISO 20022, global instant payments schemes
• Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent professional experience
• You’ve got 3+ years in a product ownership, or scrum master in an agile team
• Proficiency in English is required; Mandarin and other Asian languages will be an advantage
• Proven experience working in an Agile methodology environment (e.g. SCRUM, DSDM, Lean/Kanban).
• Excellent communication skills to effectively convey technical and business requirements to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• You have defined process mapping, driven data transformation, migration and reconciliation projects
• Good technical understanding of web applications and APIs. Solid technical competence in XML, JSON and other message syntax and basic Java knowledge.
• Strong problem-solving skills to address challenges in cross-border payment processes and find innovative solutions.
• Demonstrated ability to manage and deliver on multiple product requirements concurrently, effectively prioritizing tasks and ensuring timely completion of projects in a fast-paced environment.

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.