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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Visa’s Technology Organization is a community of problem solvers and innovators reshaping the future of commerce.   We operate the world’s most sophisticated processing networks capable of handling more than 65k secure transactions a second across 80M merchants, 15k Financial Institutions, and billions of everyday people.   While working with us you’ll get to work on complex distributed systems and solve massive scale problems centered on new payment flows, business and data solutions, cyber security, and B2C platforms.     

The Opportunity:

Reporting to the Senior Director, Portfolio and Program Management within the PPT team, this position will provide Program / Project Management leadership for the Platform and Architecture Programs. These Programs have a significant impact on Visa's future revenue streams. Program management will holistically encompass working across all business and technical units within Visa to drive overall program success. Comprehensive day-to-day management of multiple, cross functional, global software development projects, specifically within mission critical programs will be required.

Essential Functions:

• Planning and resource management, conducting project kickoff meetings and defining project scope
• Facilitating technical, operational and/or business requirements definition for Product Development tasks, developing detailed baseline project plans and driving/managing/ tracking projects through each phase of the project lifecycle through to successful completion leveraging agile methodologies where necessary.
• Communicating status, issues and risks to project stakeholders.
• Providing leadership to cross-functional project teams, and maintaining project documentation.
• This position will work closely with members of Product Management, UI/UX, Product Development, QA, Release Management, Implementation Management, and Operations teams, as well as with all levels of management within the organization.
• The DDP organization is also fully operational in Scaled Scrum delivery. This role will include complex project management that may involve developing processes and plans.
• Meticulous follow-ups and follow-through of issues and actions to drive them to closure in a timely manner, Work closely with the Technical Development team to identify and communicate critical paths.
• Be the single point of contact for the partner and bring in resources from
  marketing, product, and support as necessary
• Become an expert on our product, our competition and the markets in which we compete

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:

• Bachelor’s Degree AND minimum of eight (8) years of relevant work experience
OR
• Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD) AND five (5) years of relevant work experience
OR
• PhD AND two (2) years of relevant work experience
OR
• Minimum eleven (11) years of relevant work experience

Preferred Qualifications:

• 12 or more years of work experience with a Bachelor’s Degree or 8-10 years of experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD) or 6+ years of work experience with a PhD
• Candidate should have solid collaboration experience.
• Manage a small team of 2-3 project managers
• Candidate has a PMP or equivalent project management certification and has knowledge of working in an agile environment.
• Good familiarity with project management software tools, project management techniques, software development lifecycle in an e-commerce or web environment, scrum or agile experience.
• SME Knowledge of project management principles and Agile development
methodologies.
• Good attention to details, ability to think analytically and independently.
• Knowledge and hands-on experience of technical implementations of large scale, highly available, robust web/mobile and Payment Services applications.
• Support Product Owner in developing, maintaining and grooming Product Backlog.
• Collaborate with cross functional teams and build schedules and plans.
• Identifies and manages dependencies with other internal or external teams.
• Work with the Scrum team and with non-agile Visa teams to align deliverables.
• Handle issues/ risks proactively and work with the program manager to
successful deliver the program and projects.
• A strong candidate will have a solid experience with technology/ product program management, people management, x-functional team leadership, as well as superb skills in communications, business analysis, problem-solving, cross-team coordination, communications, project/program management, processes, and change management.
• The ideal candidate is not just a facilitator or project plan tracker but ensures things get done.
• To add here, this candidate must have strong collaboration experience across different time zones.
• The person should have experience building a team, mentoring, and grooming team members.
• Financial Institution Engagement is a plus.
• Strong communication skills and the ability to work well with other departments
and varying levels of management.
• Ability to negotiate priorities across organizations is required.
• Ability to plan and prioritize multiple tasks effectively.
• Ability to independently drive projects through to completion.
• Experience with a scrum tool like Rally, JIRA, MS Project is a must have.
• Hands-on experience with the day-to-day management of cross functional, global software development projects.
• Knowledge of other technical approaches: Java, API, REST, JSON etc

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.