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Overview:

This role of Product Analyst in the Seller Solutions group will report to the Senior Director responsible for Visa Account Updater (VAU). VAU is a key value added service that enables card account updates to help avoid disruption to customer relationships and maintain the continuity of payment relationships for cardholders and credential-on-file merchants and consequently enabling higher authorization rates.

The Product Analyst will help evaluate potential product opportunities, develop product proposals, and help recommend market expansion strategies. He/she will contribute to the product vision and delivery, including managing functional requirements, feature expansion/prioritization, and product operations. He/she will also partner with internal groups to develop product expansion opportunities to new clients/markets and will partner with North American client facing teams to help clients optimize their use of the product. He/she may also be required to manage independent programs. He/she will be responsible for working cross-functionally with Product, Client Services, Sales, Marketing, Finance, Risk, Legal and Technology. The ideal candidate will be comfortable with a dynamic environment, highly organized and a creative problem solver.

Essential Functions:

• Support expansion of VAU functionality
  • Support development of new issuer and merchant functionality
  • Global Expansion of VAU - Partner with regional product teams on opportunities to expand VAU adoption globally
  • Support regional hubs and market product teams to expand VAU to key markets in LAC, AP, and CEMEA
• Work with Marketing to create/updated new client and consumer facing communications and update sales materials
• Help develop training materials to encourage acquirer and merchant adoption of new VAU functionality
• Gather market intelligence to support strategy development and product commercialization; Research and analyze competitive landscape in priority markets
• Analysis to support key clients (issuer, acquirer, and merchant) as well as to identify opportunities to expand or optimize usage
  • Partner with to Client Services teams to support issuer and acquirer implementation and answer operational questions
  • Use GBI and VAU data to conduct merchant and issuer VAU utilization analysis and identify opportunities for improvements
  • Complete analysis for Issuers to show VAU impact/value as well as to identify opportunities to help optimize issuer VAU practices
  • Support portfolio/co-brand conversions
• Develop presentations for client calls
• Produce monthly and quarterly VAU reporting; Tracking to support issuer and COF merchant penetration; Identify and implement opportunities to improve/reengineer internal VAU reporting
• Partner with Client Services to ensure accurate lists of participating VAU issuers, acquirers, and merchants
• Responsible for aspects of management reporting (including key performance metrics including client adoption, fee revenue, and payment volume saved)

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree required
• 3+ years of experience working in product management or management consulting or 2 years of similar experience if with an advanced degree, with experience and knowledge of payment solutions a strong plus
• Excellent communication skills, including verbal, written and presentation necessary
• Excellent problem solving skills with a strong focus on clients

Preferred Qualifications

• Advanced degree desirable
• Excellent interpersonal skills to build connections with internal Visa teams and clients
• Ability to transform business ideas into detailed requirements that enable technology teams to deliver new products or product enhancements based on business needs. 
• Flexible and creative thinker with the ability to generate outside-the-box solutions
• Ability to excel in a large organization by finding solutions that meets the needs of diverse stakeholders
• Ability to create and influence strategy
• Passionate about what you do, sense of humor, and fired up about the opportunity to transform payments globally
• Ability to influence those without direct management responsibility

This position requires the incumbent to be available during core business hours.

This position requires the incumbent to travel for work 5-10% of the time.

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

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.