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The Senior Director of NA Partner Sales will lead a team of Account Executives who are accountable for Visa Acceptance Solution partners, including many of Visa’s largest clients. This is a quota-based SIP (sales incentive plan) role that reports to the VP, NA Partners within the Acceptance Solutions business unit.

The partner AE team is accountable for achieving new bookings targets and growing revenue. The team meets their targets by enabling partners to sell acceptance, fraud, token and professional services to new and existing clients. This position works closely with Visa vertical leaders, sales engineering, product, marketing, and solutions to drive new bookings and grow revenue.

This person will play critical roles in client engagement, deal strategy and cross functional partners. They will be responsible for quarterly and annual financial results of the team, prudent management of expenses, forecasting and quota setting. This individual will be a thought leader in business growth with a proven record of success in fast-paced environments with demanding timelines.  Exceptional interpersonal skills and the ability to adapt communication styles to all levels in the organization are required.  The ability to act decisively in the rapidly changing payment industry is necessary. 

Responsibilities include:

Exceed aggressive sales targets for Visa Acceptance Solutions NA Partner Sales

• Achieve quarterly bookings and revenue goals for Visa Acceptance Solutions services

• Lead teams through the sales cycle from prospecting through close

• Drive teams to create a high value pipeline for new business and upsells.

• Enable sales acceleration and prioritization of activities with high potential client targets, use cases, industry segments, etc.

• Inform annual team goal planning and execution plans to achieve them

• Lead regular pipeline review and problem-solving sessions with salespeople and help problem solve when client plans are stalled

Lead the sales team to achieve results

• Ensure high performance, team cohesiveness, and individual seller development

• Deploy resources for optimal growth across the wide set of opportunities

• Establish consistent, effective processes that inspect the use of proven sales methodologies that use planning and discovery sessions to enable alignment to client goals and timelines, executive engagement and the effective delivery of value propositions.

• Inspect progress and adjust activities as needed to achieve results.

Work with cross functional partners across North America to ensure we have what we need to be successful with our clients

• Work with local and global Product teams to improve the go-to-market strategy, right value proposition and construct to meet client needs

• Work with NA MS&A team to ensure cohesion and consistency for overall regional partners, priorities, and goals

• Work with Sales Enablement and Marketing to ensure our client facing materials are excellent and help accelerate the learning and sales process

• Work with Legal to ensure client contracts that drive to successful outcomes for both Visa and our clients

• Partner with Sales and Solutions Engineering to inform development and delivery of  market leading products and solutions based on market priorities.

• Work with Client Delivery and Client Services to handoff from sale to implementation and ensure well-run projects

• Facilitate the capture and communication of client feedback on product and value-added services to inform product evolution.

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:
• 12 or more years of work experience with a Bachelor’s Degree or at least 10 years of work experience with an Advanced degree (e.g. Masters/MBA /JD/MD), or a minimum of 5 years of work experience with a PhD

Preferred Qualifications:
• 15 or more years of experience with a Bachelor’s Degree or 12 years of experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, or MD), PhD with 9+ years of experience
• 15+ year of sales experience, including at least 5 years of experience leading sales teams.
• Solid track record of leading teams that overachieve aggressive sales targets
• Creative self-starter with a bias toward action
• Excellent problem-solving skills with a strong focus on delivering for clients
• Excellent listening and communication skills (both verbal and written), and executive presence. Must be able to interface with our most senior client executives
• Ability to explain complex business and technical concepts to a broad audience in an approachable way to drive adaption
• Passionate about what you do and excited about the opportunity to transform payments working for the industry leader
• Bachelors or Advanced degree.
• Ability to inspire direct reports and influence those without direct management responsibility
• Possess a high level of professionalism and leadership skills to build business relationships, trust and respect with business partners and suppliers
• Strong team player, self-motivated and the ability to work independently at coordinating across functional activities, obtain buy-in and elevate issues at critical junctures appropriately
• Ability to operate in a highly matrixed 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.

U.S. APPLICANTS ONLY: The estimated salary range for a new hire into this position is 218,200.00 to 300,000.00 USD, which may include potential sales incentive payments (if applicable). Salary may vary depending on job-related factors which may include knowledge, skills, experience, and location. In addition, this position may be eligible for bonus and equity. Visa has a comprehensive benefits package for which this position may be eligible that includes Medical, Dental, Vision, 401 (k), FSA/HSA, Life Insurance, Paid Time Off, and Wellness Program.