Technical Product Manager
- Full-time
- Job Family Group: Technology and Operations
Company Description
Visa is a world leader in payments and technology, with over 259 billion payments transactions flowing safely between consumers, merchants, financial institutions, and government entities in 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 while driven by a common purpose – to uplift everyone, everywhere by being the best way to pay and be paid.
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Job Description
Are you passionate about conceptualizing, nurturing, developing, and proving new ideas and developing them into new solutions? Would you like to help create the next major innovation in and around the payment landscape pioneering and leveraging the most advanced devices, hardware and software in the world, anything, and everything in and around world’s largest payment ecosystem?
We’re looking for a seasoned individual to drive game-changing innovation in and around Visa’s partner eco-system for Asia Pacific, and specifically India. You should have experience driving multi-skilled teams capable of rapid prototyping of new ideas as well as scale these to commercial solutions. You and the team will be at the forefront of strategic partnerships, breakthrough technologies, new ideas, hackathons, demos, and rapid prototyping. You will work closely with business development teams, partners, and internal product teams and cross- leverage engineering talent internally and externally.
Responsibilities
- Be at the heart of developing new ideas into demo-able products, and ultimately to commercial product
- Work alongside and collaborate with UX, engineering, and partner teams to deliver products, features, services, and tools
- Drive rapid prototyping cycles – translating business requirements to technical requirements
- Break down business/product requirements into clear, thorough and detailed user stories for complex features and product sets
- Participate in sprint planning, daily stand ups, product demos, test phases, retrospectives to ensure on-time and high-quality delivery
- Work very closely with development and QA organization to ensure technical specifications and final product meet business requirements
- Derive insights from data and help drive decision making
- Maintain release plans and publish release notes to stakeholders
- Provide oversight to develop user guides, user training materials
- Provide product demos, user training and support for adoption of features and applications
- Define success metrics and SLAs on the key products and services
- Understand User Experience, design thinking and its importance to product features
- Consult on a regular basis with leadership to align expectations and deliverables
- Able to scale the successful pilots to full commercial solutions
- Use stubs as needed to simulate capabilities lighting up soon
- Work collaboratively across team boundaries to share common infrastructure and functional capabilities. Provide feedback into core product teams to influence their roadmap and strategy
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.
Qualifications
Basic Qualifications
8+ years of relevant work experience with a Bachelor’s 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, OR 11+ years of relevant work experience.
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
Qualifications
- Passion for innovation, new ideas, quick prototyping, hackathons etc.
- Prior work exploring and innovating new IP, genres, and product experiences
- Professional experience in ideation and incubation which has led to shipping products
- Multi-disciplinary skills and experience in ideation, product definition/solutioning and software design
- Solid understanding of payment industry and multi-channel commerce space
- Experience, ideas, and opinions about emerging trends such as Biometric Authentication, Internet of Things, and Digital Currency
- Proven skill-set and track record in developing one line ideas into products
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
- Self-motivated and drive for excellence
- Have an open-minded approach to development strategy and approaches
- Capable of building culture for innovation
- Core technical understanding/comfort level, ideally in multiple technology stacks for web development, APIs and Mobile application development on diverse platforms
- 10+ years of overall industry experience of which 3+ years is in a technical program/ product management role with increasing responsibility
- MS or BS in Computer Science or equivalent
Bonus Qualifications:
•Prior experience working in a start-up or at VC firms in a “Resident Entrepreneur” capacity
•Financial services and/or payments processing industry experience is a plus
•Patents and other proofs of past success in creating IP
•Fluent in discussions about API design, SDKs, and developer tools
•MBA and/or advanced technology degree is a plus
Additional Information
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.