Director, Backend Payments Platform

Visa; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 173,000 - 308,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical

Dental

Vision

401(k)

FSA/HSA

Life Insurance

Paid Time Off

Wellness Program

Job summary

Visa is seeking a Director-level product leader to define strategy and execute across the acquiring lifecycle, including settlement, funding, pricing, and risk integration. You will own the system of record and drive scalable global adoption with cross-functional partners.

Lead a team and collaborate with engineering, finance, risk, and regional teams to align roadmaps, resolve discrepancies, and deliver high-impact platform services.

Qualifications

• 10 or more years of work experience with a Bachelor's Degree or at least 8 years of work experience with an Advanced Degree or at least 3 years of work experience with a PhD
• Excellent written and verbal communication with the ability to engage executive, technical, and non-technical global audiences
• Experience with settlement engines, ledger/accounting systems, financial platforms, or systems of record supporting regulated financial operation
• Experience working with global card schemes (e.g., Visa, Mastercard) and multi-region acquiring platforms

Responsibilities

• Set product direction for the end-to-end acquiring lifecycle: boarding capture clearing settlement funding reporting
• Lead prioritization and execution of product requirements, APIs, and data models for transaction lifecycle and financial processing
• Own settlement and funding capabilities including interchange, fee calculation, net/gross settlement, adjustments, and exception handling
• Drive reconciliation and financial control workflows to ensure consistency between transaction processing, settlement outputs, and reporting
• Define product strategy for interchange qualification, pricing constructs, and funding behaviors across the lifecycle
• Partner with senior engineering, architecture, operations, finance, risk, and regional teams to deliver scalable platform services

Skills

Product strategy

APIs

Data models

Financial processing

Cross-functional leadership

Executive communication

SQL

Platform design

Acquiring lifecycle

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Advanced Degree

PhD

Tools

SQL

Job description

Visa is seeking a Director-level product leader to define strategy and execute across the acquiring lifecycle, including settlement, funding, pricing, and risk integration. You will own the system of record and drive scalable global adoption with cross-functional partners.

Lead a team and collaborate with engineering, finance, risk, and regional teams to align roadmaps, resolve discrepancies, and deliver high-impact platform services.