Head of Product Proposition - Level 6

  • Full-time

Company Description

Fascinated by the future and captivated by technology?

Smart, driven and want to make a difference in the world?

You’ll fit right in.

Join a diverse team at Visa, where your individuality fits right in. We can provide the opportunity to shape the payments experience globally. Together, let’s transform the way the world pays.

Think you know us?

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.

 

Job Description

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

What’s it all about?

  • We are seeking a senior leader to develop compelling solutions and propositions for a large bank within the UK

  • This will be done via the development of use cases that consider firstly, the bank priorities and then the changing consumer needs whilst considering the changes in the market landscape

  • This will enable the bank to differentiation their customer experiences and ultimately differentiation for Visa versus other schemes and third parties

  • This engagement and new way of working will be in a consultative approach therefore the candidates ability to probe and listen to the banks priorities is critical for these roles. Equally their ability to connect across the bank in terms of stakeholders, predominately within the digital/transformation organisation/s across each of these bank and leverage a new set of stakeholder engagement that Visa has not traditionally been able to engage in the past

  • The candidate will be required to have a deep understanding of Visa capabilities across the four defined platforms – VisaNet, Visa Developer, Visa Token Service and Visa Identity and Authentication

  • Whilst this is a product proposition role, there is a requirement to sell and influence internal and external stakeholders around the requirement needs; a true consultative selling approach is vital here  

  • Whilst there will be a defined Customer Support Service (CSS) team and a Product Delivery team, oversight of the Go-To Market Plan for the specific bank is important to note for the role

What we expect of you, day to day.

  • Works hand in hand with the dedicated Customer Engagement team, in gaining far deeper understanding of the bank priorities and needs specifically of the digital/transformation business

  • Has the need to develop far deeper engagement with the bank across their UX, digital and transformation teams

  • Liaises with core and digital product owners within the regional Visa Hub team to influence product development and timing based on the banks needs and requirements 

  • Would facilitate the generation of insights to inform development opportunities and build commercially viable value propositions for Visa and its stakeholders; would understand the key segments, size and importance of these segments at a market level to facilitate a good commercial engagement around the importance of certain segments for the UK specifically

  • Off this deep knowledge and understanding of the customer needs and priorities; build out customer journeys and map to Visa capabilities which would enable these journeys

  • Work closely with the Visa Content Specialist resource to help facilitate these journeys and equally the Visa Solution Architect to gain far deeper understanding of each individual bank infrastructure, this is critical to facilitate a more meaningful discussion around deployment of the Visa capabilities

  • Once these propositions and journeys are defined and developed; build out work streams with the support of the project managers to facilitate internal and external focus on the deliverables and outcomes needed. These GTM plans would track and manage deliverables and ensure challenges are quickly escalated on both sides – Visa and the bank

  • Partner with the dedicated client engagement team to help support the commercial wrapper and the way in which Visa can support product Value In Kind or new ways of packaging product pricing to enable deployment of new capabilities for the bank

Qualifications

What we’re after…

  • The individuals should be self-starters, with the ability to think and act fairly independently at times, whilst always aligning and balancing the customer priorities to the Visa product strategy. This is at times a difficult balance to maintain

  • Educated to degree level or equivalent professional experience

  • The candidates are seasoned experts and have a significant knowledge and experience of the UK payment market, regulation and market landscape

  • Strong product proposition development and go to market experience; having done this previously for a reasonable amount of time

  • Sound knowledge and experience of new technology, fintech and challenger banks

  • Strong commercial acumen

  • Strong communication and interpersonal skills/ability to influence with multiple stakeholders both internally and externally, specifically in working in a ‘matrixed’ environment

  • Ability to direct and lead a team and manage senior stakeholder engagements within Visa and at the banks

Think you have what it takes?

If you are interested in a career that will challenge and inspire you – we’d love to hear from you!

Additional Information

Diversity & Inclusion

Universal acceptance for everyone, everywhere, is not only our brand promise, it’s the foundation of our company culture. We foster a feeling of connectedness in the workplace, support diversity of thought, culture and background, fight for important initiatives like Equal Pay and actively work to eliminate unconscious biases that hold us all back.

By leveraging the diverse backgrounds and perspectives of our worldwide teams, Visa is a better place to work and a better business partner to our clients.

Privacy Policy