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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The Senior Consultant of Solution Design is responsible for ensuring that Visa is developing new solutions our clients in North America (NA) want and can easily deploy. In this role, you will partner closely with product managers across Visa, taking a cross-product view towards product development. This role will work across key strategic product lines within Visa such as digital, risk and identity, BNPL, and more.

We are looking for a technically savvy individual who can bring client needs fully into the product development process. You are a seasoned leader with a strong technical background, client focus, and most importantly an interest in continuous learning. This role reports to the Senior Director, Solution Design within Visa’s NA Product and Solutions organization.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Participate in new product launches by defining and prioritizing NA-specific product requirements

• Evaluate the technical design and value proposition of in-development products against client needs and market dynamics

• Partner closely with client-facing product specialists to understand client and market needs

• Identify opportunities for innovation with both clients and internal teams  

• Work with technology to design and build-out region-specific solutions and proof-of-concepts

• Work with interdisciplinary teams across product development, technology, innovation and design, engineering and payment ecosystem partners in the development of applied innovations

• Manage project work independently and mentor more junior members of the team

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.

Basic Qualifications:
• 8 or more years of relevant work experience with a Bachelor Degree or at least 5 years of experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD) or 2 years of work experience with a PhD


Preferred Qualifications:

• 9 or more years of relevant work experience with a Bachelor Degree or 7 or more relevant years of experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD) or 3 or more years of experience with a PhD

• Ability to articulate product value proposition to executive-level business stakeholders and also explain technical details to developer-level contacts
• Experience working with BRDs, Solution Design Documents, and Process Flow Diagrams
• Payments industry/fintechs/digital tech experience or similar relevant experience
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Product management and or development experience
• Experience with one or more of the following payments areas: digital (e.g. e-commerce, tokenization), risk and identity, debit, and/or processing.
• Experience working with APIs in various technology environments
• Proven ability to work on complex and often ambiguous problems
• Excellent facilitator and moderator
• Self-starter with a disposition to work independently with a commitment to detail in an organized manner.
• Comfortable working independently in fast-paced environment

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.