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.

Join Visa: A Network Working for Everyone.

The candidate will manage a myriad of organizational change initiatives for Visa. The candidate will focus on the people side of change, including changes to business processes, systems, tools, and technology. The primary responsibility will be creating and implementing change management strategies and plans that maximize employee adoption and usage of new tools and business processes and minimize resistance to changes. The change manager will work to drive faster adoption, higher ultimate utilization of and proficiency with the changes that impact Visa’s employees. The candidate will support project teams in integrating change management activities into their project plans and apply a structured methodology while leading change management activities. Responsibilities also include:

• Design, develop, execute and manage organizational change management strategies and plan

• Design, develop, deliver, and manage communications strategies, plans and deliverables to communicate about changes to tools and processes across the Corporate IT (CIT) organization and Visa

• Evaluate and ensure user readiness

• Conduct impact analysis and change management assessment, including change readiness

• Provide input, document requirements and support the design and delivery of end user training

• Define and measure success metrics and monitor change progress

• Identify, analyze and prepare risk mitigation tactics

• Identify and manage anticipated resistance

• Identify and manage relationships with key stakeholders

• Identify and manage relationships with executive sponsors

• Consult and coach project teams

• Support and engage senior leaders

• Coordinate efforts with other subject matter experts

• Integrate change management activities into project plans

• Track and report issues and action items

• Work with virtual teams located in different time zones and with differing cultures

• Represent the Employee Enablement Solutions (EES) team and be a strong, vocal customer/user advocate

• Be a change agent

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

• 5 or more years of relevant work experience with a Bachelor’s Degree or at least 2 years of work experience with an Advanced degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD) or 0 years of work experience with a PhD, Prosci or other change management certification or designation is desired

Preferred Qualifications/Skills

• Prefer min. 5 years, project, program, or business analysis experience, including a minimum of 3 years change management experience.
• Track record of on-time, on scope, high quality implementations.
• Ability to exercise independent judgment with minimal direction from senior management.
• Ability to coordinate activities within cross-divisional and cross-functional teams.
• Strong leadership qualities and organizational skills with the ability to adapt quickly to changing priorities and assignments.
• Excellent verbal, written, and presentation skills. In particular, demonstrated ability to effectively communicate technical and business issues and solutions to multiple organizational levels internally and externally.

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.