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.

About the role

Do you want to work on the bleeding edge of innovation in the payments industry?  Are you someone who enjoys pursuing and winning new business opportunities?  Do you want to be a part of the team who helps dream, design, and build the future of payments? If so, Digital Partnerships is the team for you at Visa.

The Digital Partnership team lead Visa’s engagement with Fintech, Big Tech and Digital Platforms to identify partnership and commercial opportunities for Visa and/or our clients.

We are looking for a self-motivated, results-oriented and passionate business development manager to join our team and help pursue new opportunities across Australia, New Zealand & the South Pacific.

Why join us

• Be part of the team that seeks out and closes commercial opportunities with new clients in new and emerging territories such as Embedded Finance, Cross-Border Commerce & Money Movement, and Digital Money & Assets
• Work with some of the most exciting companies in payments & financial services (Digital Banks, BNPL providers, Crypto players, B2B Fintechs)
• Work with incredible people every day – both internally and externally.  We’re a team of intraprenuers who work hard, have fun and get stuff done

Join us and make a difference today.

What you will be doing

• Developing commercial strategies to win new business and execute new customer acquisition activities
• Building a network of external contacts that you will nurture to build relationships and your pipeline of new opportunities
• Actively monitor competitive landscape for attack and grow opportunities
• Collaborating with regional and local finance teams to develop commercial proposals for regional and global opportunities
• Providing data analysis support for key business decision making and market updates
• Producing relevant sales collateral and pitch presentations for new client opportunities
• Developing content and the engagement strategy for industry bodies and events

Life At Visa

• We are known for offering industry-leading compensation
• We have state of the art offices in Melbourne, Sydney and Auckland
• We provide world class benefits including:
  • Mental health and wellbeing resources to all employees
  • Generous annual leave plus carers leave, parental leave, baby bonding leave, and pregnancy loss leave, among others
  • Paid volunteering leave & employee referral program cash awards
  • Ability to work from another location for up to 1 month each year
• Global company with global opportunities.  We can share endless stories of how we’ve supported our employees to accelerate their career progression and pursue opportunities in other geographies around the world.

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.

What you will bring

• Active Contributor to Team Success – A culture creator with a strong team orientation and a collaborative, diplomatic, and flexible style. Able to work effectively in a matrixed organization
• Commercial Prowess – Experience in, and flair + passion for, constructing and negotiating partnership deals that support Visa’s growth strategy. Experience developing, building and securing new commercial relationships. You have constructed and negotiated complex deals that meet customer needs and deliver win-win partnership outcomes. You are comfortable navigating through commercial, technical and legal requirements to successfully execute contracts
• Sell with Pride & Purpose – Excellent client engagement and business development skills that build deep, trust-based partnerships and drive mutual growth. Experience in and passion for payments. Fluent in the innovation landscape. You keep up-to-date with the latest business, industry, customer and product trends
• High-Impact Communication – Excellent communication and presentation skills. You have the ability to adapt creative sales approaches based on client needs, create strong customer narratives and deliver compelling sales presentations & pitches. Ability to develop content and the engagement strategy for industry bodies and events. You will help raise the profile of the Visa Digital Partnerships team through conferences, social media and industry engagement.

You’re not expected to have 100% of these skills. At Visa a growth mindset is at the heart of our culture, so if you have most of these things in your toolbox, we’d love to hear from you.

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.