Innovation Strategist - Level 4
- Full-time
Company Description
Fascinated by the future and captivated by technology?
Smart, driven and want to make a difference in the world?
Want to explore new territory?
This role is for you.
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
What's it all about?
Part of the global Product org, Visa’s Innovation & Design team is a global client facing organisation that sets Visa’s public innovation narrative, supports our clients to accelerate their innovation agenda and transform their consumer digital experiences, and promotes hands on incubation and rapid prototyping to demonstrate the art of the possible for clients and partners. Innovation & Design runs Innovation Centers in various regional offices. This role focuses on Visa’s European region, based out of our London Innovation Center.
Our dynamic and start-up-like team of designers, developers, facilitators and creative strategists is looking for a talented individual to help bring new solutions to life, from imagination to commercialisation. This includes working together with some of Visa’s largest clients and strategic partners across Europe to solve consumer pain points and deliver compelling consumer payments experiences of the future.
The main focus of this role would be to deliver client engagement sessions based on design thinking methodologies for some of Visa’s largest clients and strategic partners across Europe.
What we expect of you, day to day.
Client Engagements & Strategy
Support and co-lead strategic client engagements using design thinking methodologies, to help banks, merchants, fintechs, technology companies and other partners in Visa’s eco system discuss, prioritise and deliver future payment experiences
Help scope discovery phases, create key workshop deliverables such as insights presentations, stimuli/creative boards, concept summaries, workshop agendas and activities
Help build experiential assets in the Innovation Center, e.g. data narratives microservices showcases, demo stations, to showcase our innovation capabilities
Develop a strong understanding of Visa’s payment services and capabilities, and technical foundations
Over time and with support, develop the ability to lead smaller engagements end-to-end individually
Solution Design Delivery
Work in small multi-disciplinary teams including product, design, technology and strategy to deliver impactful solutions to complex consumer and business problems for clients and partners
Deliver agile design delivery sprints that involve customer needs/pain points discovery, design, services design and solution development
Support on determine success criteria and KPI’s - track and monitor progress
Research & Insight
Partner with the design team to conceptualize and define research methodologies that solve complex challenges and uncover customer behaviours, pain points, needs and aspirations
Prepare for and participate in research, shape hypotheses and write interview scripts, carry out consumer and stakeholder interviews, carry out desktop research
Synthesize research, shape and create design workshop input and artefacts, such as trends landscape, consumer profiles/personas, competitive analysis and benchmarks, concept summaries, insight decks, video vox pops etc.
Carry out research in partnership with research agencies/partners as required
Actively monitor developments in payments and current and future trends that impact the payment industry
Qualifications
What we’re after...
- Experience of working across all product development lifecycles from research to concept exploration, to prototyping and validation and launch
Growth mindset, with openness to new ideas and viewpoints, the ability to flex according to changing directions when considering new information
A flair for business, ability to translate human insights into commercial outcomes
Team oriented - actively promotes an environment of inclusion and diversity of thought
A keen balance between creativity, intellectual curiosity and commercial understanding
Advanced technical skills within MS Office, PowerPoint, Keynote, Sketch and similar design applications
Design team background or Innovation consulting preferred
Bachelor of Design, Business, Commerce, or Technology, or hold equivalent professional experience
Commercial experience
Demonstrated sprints team experience that involve needs discovery (ethnographic research), design and solution development
Experience working in client facing and client workshop facilitation, project-driven environments and teams
Must be able to work in a dynamic startup-like team environment with a diverse team
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.