Cross-Border Risk Strategy Director

Visa; Atlanta (GA); Hybrid; USD 152,000 - 243,000; Full time

Job summary

Visa seeks a strategic risk leader for Cross-Border to shape risk posture and governance across expanding cross-border programs. You will partner with senior leaders to identify and mitigate regulatory, financial crime, and operational risks while enabling responsible growth.

Ideal candidates bring deep payments industry knowledge, enterprise risk experience, and the ability to translate complex challenges into actionable insights for executive teams in a dynamic global landscape.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of work experience with a Bachelor's Degree or at least 8 years of work experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters/ MBA/JD/MD) or at least 3 years of work experience with a PhD.
• Exceptional communication, presentation, stakeholder management, and executive influence skills.
• Proven ability to evaluate complex business, operational, and regulatory issues and translate them into practical risk and business recommendations.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and critical thinking capabilities.
• Experience working across large, global, matrixed organizations and influencing senior stakeholders without direct authority.
• Experience supporting payment networks, cross-border payment businesses, issuing, acquiring, treasury, merchant, or transaction-based businesses.
• Strong understanding of cross-border payment flows, payment ecosystem participants, regulatory frameworks, and market expansion considerations.
• Proven ability to advise executive leadership on strategic initiatives, risk management, governance, and transformational change.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the primary risk advisor to the Cross-Border organization, influencing business strategy, operating model evolution, market expansion initiatives, and long-term growth priorities.
• Partner with executive leadership to identify, assess, monitor, and mitigate key operational, regulatory, strategic, financial crime, third-party, and technology risks.
• Develop and maintain a forward-looking view of emerging risks impacting cross-border issuance, payment flows, licensing requirements, market expansion, and evolving regulatory expectations.
• Assess strategic initiatives, partnerships, and new business opportunities through a risk lens while enabling responsible innovation and growth.
• Provide effective challenge and risk-based recommendations to support informed decision-making at the executive level.

Skills

Executive influence

Stakeholder management

Communication

Regulatory knowledge

Risk assessment

Cross-border payments

Payments ecosystem understanding

Executive reporting

Education

Bachelor's degree

Advanced degree (MBA, JD, MD, etc.)

PhD

Job description

Visa seeks a strategic risk leader for Cross-Border to shape risk posture and governance across expanding cross-border programs. You will partner with senior leaders to identify and mitigate regulatory, financial crime, and operational risks while enabling responsible growth.

Ideal candidates bring deep payments industry knowledge, enterprise risk experience, and the ability to translate complex challenges into actionable insights for executive teams in a dynamic global landscape.