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The Director, Visa Direct Card Payment Products will be a member of Visa Direct Global Platform and Solutions team, which is responsible for the end to end Product Management lifecycle development and delivery of the Visa Direct product roadmap.   The team works collaboratively to design and deliver the broader Visa Direct product strategy, and engages broadly with the cross-functional Visa stakeholders, clients and partners across multiple markets.   

The position will report to the Visa Direct Card Payments Platform lead based in Canada. 

This role will be responsible for developing, deploying and managing product roadmap through leading individual Card Payments Product initiatives within the Visa Direct team. These include product management of Push to Card (OCT) and Pull from Card (AFT) services with a particular emphasis on supporting growth of Cross Border payment flows, new use cases and bolstering Visa Direct’s competitiveness with ACH and RTP schemes for domestic payments. The Director, Card Payments Product  will work closely with the Card Payments Product Lead, cross-functional stakeholders and Product counterparts focused on Account, Wallet as well as Money Movement (Settlement, Liquidity and FX) to ensure a unified customer experience across an increasingly diverse set of new endpoints.

Essential functions

Contribute to evolving Visa’s strategy to support simple, transparent, scalable payments solutions that allow originators to move money more easily

Collaborate with senior leaders to align product strategies and ensure proper coordination and messaging where appropriate. Provide executive briefings and ensure awareness of product rollout and migration.

Manage enhancements to the product architecture to allow originators to deliver payments cross border as well as to reduce barriers for new use cases (generally tied to data, regulatory compliance, risk or other ecosystem factors)

Lead efforts targeted at driving progress with Push to Card for disbursements on a global basis.

Work with Technology to ensure new use cases and capabilities deliver expected user experience and are on time and within budget.  

Execute Visa Direct roadmap against overall commercial targets for all payment types and use cases.

Client interaction with corporate/treasury banks, Card Issuers, Acquirers, Processors and PSPs.

People management responsibility may be added to this role, but at this time it is an individual contributor.

Cross-functional interaction within Visa including Compliance, Client Readiness, Legal, Regulatory, Risk, Sales, Marketing, Product, Investor Relations, Corporate Development, Corporate Strategy and Technology

Business and platform architecture

This is a hybrid position. Hybrid employees can alternate time between both remote and office. Employees in hybrid roles are expected to work from the office 2-3 set days a week (determined by leadership/site), with a general guidepost of being in the office 50% or more of the time based on business needs.

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.