Visa is a world leader in digital payments, facilitating more than 215 billion payments transactions between consumers, merchants, financial institutions and government entities across more than 200 countries and territories each year. Our mission is to connect the world through the most innovative, convenient, reliable and secure payments network, enabling individuals, businesses and economies to thrive.

When you join Visa, you join a culture of purpose and belonging – where your growth is priority, your identity is embraced, and the work you do matters. We believe that economies that include everyone everywhere, uplift everyone everywhere. Your work will have a direct impact on billions of people around the world – helping unlock financial access to enable the future of money movement.

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Our Visa internship program occurs during the summer months only.

The payments world is changing with new players, experiences, and expectations. Over half of Visa’s volume is now digital. All of this brings enormous new growth opportunities for digital and risk payment products.  

The North America Product team is responsible for evaluating and launching critical digital and risk solutions in our market. This internship position provides the opportunity to help shape and execute Visa’s Digital and Risk Solutions strategy for North America (NA) in partnership with our largest clients, industry leading brands, and technology platform providers.

The position is based in San Francisco, California and may require occasional commuting to Foster City, California.

Job responsibilities may include

• Develop product and go-to-market strategies for digital/risk products in close partnership with global development teams
• Develop business cases to assess market opportunity, derive revenue estimates and determine client/Visa ROI
• Evaluate product / solution related regulatory and operational risks, adherence to Visa Rules, and IP considerations
• Develop an overarching GTM strategy and plan including:
  • Client segmentation / targeting criteria and considerations
  • Commercial constructs, terms, agreements, and pricing structures
  • Pilot framework and strategy, launch communications plan and execution framework
  • Launch and execution plan for general availability
  • Develop and disseminate materials to educate internal and external stakeholders on new offerings
  • Orchestrate cross-functional coordination to execute launches as well as to accelerate product adoption

You likely...

• Are genuinely interested about how risk and consumer experience intersect and how this balance impacts product success or failure in the payments world
• Want to work on fast paced, high impact projects involving Visa’s largest clients, rolling up to C-level leadership
• Want to learn how a product really works (ex: API and data field level) to understand its potential
• Can effectively communicate complex business or technical ideas to leadership and partners 
• Support your ideas with data, iterate quickly off the ideas of your teammates, and question your biases
• Are proactive- have a high tolerance for the ‘unknown’ and take this as an exciting challenge to shape the future

Basic Qualifications

• Pursuing a Bachelor’s degree, graduating December 2022 or later (NOTE: fields of study such as Business, Economics, Engineering, CS, Cognitive Science, or a related field may indicate a good fit, but are not exhaustive.)
• Minimum GPA of 3.0 out of 4.0 (or equivalent scale)
• Strong communications skills, specifically, the absence of repeated grammatical or typographical errors, clear and concise written and spoken communications, and communications that demonstrate professional judgment.

Preferred Qualifications

• Outstanding executive communication skills (verbal and visual) with an ability to explain complex business and technical concepts to broad audiences in an approachable way
• Strong attention to detail with the ability to correlate data and trends to business drivers, while thinking big and leading executive messaging; utilize data and metrics to communicate needs with ease
• Entrepreneurial, proactive, and operates under minimal supervision: high tolerance for ambiguity and complexity; efficient with limited resources
• Passionate about what you do and fired up about the opportunity to transform payments working for the industry leader
• The ability to take on challenges and address problems head-on
• Strong ability to collaborate
• Highly driven, resourceful and results oriented
• Good team player and excellent interpersonal skills
• Good analytical and problem-solving skills
• Demonstrated ability to lead and navigate through ambiguity

Visa has adopted a COVID-19 vaccination policy to safeguard the health and well-being of our employees and visitors. As a condition of employment, all employees based in the U.S. are required to be fully vaccinated for COVID-19, unless a reasonable accommodation is approved or as otherwise required by law.

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.

Work Authorization: Permanent Authorization to work in the U.S. is a precondition of employment for this position. Visa will not sponsor applicants for work visas in connection with this position. Future sponsorship will not be considered.

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.

Visa will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with EEOC guidelines and applicable local law.