Director, Global Products Strategic Initiatives

SupportFinity™; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 178,000 - 286,000; Full time

Job summary

Visa is seeking a Director on the Strategic Initiatives & Operations team to own strategy and execution across consumer payments, including leading Visa’s Global Product Drop. This role collaborates with Product, Strategy, Design, Data, Marketing, and regional teams to drive initiatives that align with the 2030 goals.

The position requires strong leadership, data-driven decision making, and outstanding communication with senior stakeholders.

Qualifications

• Proven experience in strategic leadership roles within management consulting, product strategy, corporate strategy or equivalent.
• Experience in payments, financial services or technology sectors.
• Demonstrated ability to lead cross-functional projects and manage complex programs.
• Strong executive presence and ability to communicate to senior stakeholders.
• Experience growing and developing high-performing teams.
• Excellent analytical, problem-solving, and attention to detail.
• Self-starter, team oriented, collaborative, diplomatic, and flexible with strong presentation skills.
• Passion for the payments industry and delivering customer-centric solutions.

Responsibilities

• Own the strategy and execution of strategic initiatives across consumer payments, including leading Visa’s Global Product Drop.
• Lead high-impact strategy projects across GP&I, such as Visa’s affluent strategy and ecommerce roadmap.
• Structure and solve business problems with cross-regional stakeholders to advance initiatives.
• Inform the development of innovative products by integrating insights across functional resources.
• Develop rigorous, data-backed analyses to ensure sound strategic and financial decisions.
• Build strong relationships across product, regional, and cross-functional teams.

Skills

Executive communication

Strategic leadership

Cross-functional collaboration

Problem-solving

Presentation skills

Education

Bachelor's degree

Advanced degree

PhD

Job description

Director, Global Products Strategic Initiatives

Visa | Posted Mar 9

Full-time

Master (>10 yrs)

Visa is a world leader in payments technology, facilitating transactions between consumers, merchants, financial institutions and government entities across more than 200 countries and territories, dedicated to uplifting everyone, everywhere by being the best way to pay and be paid.

At Visa, you'll have the opportunity to create impact at scale — tackling meaningful challenges, growing your skills and seeing your contributions impact lives around the world. Join Visa and do work that matters — to you, to your community, and to the world.

Progress starts with you.

Job Description

Visa’s Global Products & Initiatives (GP&I) organization is responsible for Visa’s consumer payments product portfolio, including products like Credit, Debit, Visa Flex Credential, and Visa Payment Passkey. We are seeking a Director on the Strategic Initiatives & Operations team, who will play a critical role in enabling the GP&I organization to deliver against our 2030 goals.

This role will own the strategy and execution of strategic initiatives across consumer payments including leading Visa’s Global Product Drop. This is a highly collaborative and strategic role working closely with partners across Product, Strategy, Design, Data, Marketing, Comms and Regional teams.

Key Responsibilities:

• Own execution of Visa’s Global Product Drop including identifying products to feature, creating product narratives, building product demos & coordinating across Product, Events, Comms, Marketing and Design


• Lead high impact strategy projects and initiatives across GP&I, such as Visa’s affluent strategy, and ecommerce roadmap


• Structure and solve business problems, collaborating with a range of internal stakeholders across regions and functions to advance initiatives and ensure alignment


• Inform the development of unique, creative, and impactful products and solutions by integrating insights across Visa’s functional resources


• Develop rigorous, data-backed, quantitative and qualitative analyses to ensure strategic and financial soundness of decisions and recommendations


• Build strong relationships across product, regional, and cross-functional teams

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

Qualifications

• 10 years of relevant work experience with a Bachelor's Degree or 8 years of relevant work experience with an Advanced degree (e.g. Masters/MBA/JD/MD) or 3 years relevant work experience with a PhD


• 12 or more years of work experience with a Bachelor’s Degree or 8-10 years of experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD) or 6+ years of work experience with a PhD


• Proven experience in strategic leadership roles within management consulting, product strategy, corporate strategy or equivalent


• Experience in and/or significant exposure to the payments, financial services or technology sector


• Demonstrated success independently leading and managing complex, cross-functional projects, over a wide variety of functional business problems


• Strong executive presence and ability to clearly communicate compelling messages to senior stakeholders and external business partners


• Experience managing and developing high-performing teams, with a focus on coaching, talent development, and building inclusive team cultures


• Superior strategic thinking, analytical, and problem-solving skills, with demonstrated intellectual and analytical rigor and attention to detail


• Self-starter, team oriented, collaborative, diplomatic, and flexible, with excellent presentation skills, including strong oral and writing capabilities


• Passion for the payments industry and a desire to deliver impactful, customer-centric products and solutions

Additional Information

• Work Hours: Varies upon the needs of the department.


• Travel Requirements: This position requires travel 5-10% of the time.


• Mental/Physical Requirements: This position will be performed in an office setting. The position will require the incumbent to sit and stand at a desk, communicate in person and by telephone, frequently operate standard office equipment, such as telephones and computers.

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.

Visa will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with applicable local law, including the requirements of Article 49 of the San Francisco Police Code.

U.S. APPLICANTS ONLY: The estimated salary range for this position is 178,300.00 to 285,600.00 USD per year, which may include potential sales incentive payments (if applicable). Salary may vary depending on job-related factors which may include knowledge, skills, experience, and location. In addition, this position may be eligible for bonus and equity. Visa has a comprehensive benefits package for which this position may be eligible that includes Medical, Dental, Vision, 401 (k), FSA/HSA, Life Insurance, Paid Time Off, and Wellness Program.