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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At Visa, we believe that we need to change the way we buy and do business to create patterns of consumption that are sustainable, considering not just our GHG emissions but the whole planet.

We believe that all actors in the system increasingly want to participate in this transition, and that consumers will change their consumption patterns when they become aware of their impact and options; even showing willingness to pay for it.

There is a strong belief that those who get it right will be rewarded, and that Visa can play an invaluable role for our clients and partners in offering sustainable solutions.

Visa is seeking a banking and payments professional with experience in product innovation and a passion for sustainability, to join the Sustainability Solutions team. The successful candidate will work directly with the Sustainability Solutions Product lead, supporting with managing and shaping the function, working with clients to understand their needs, delivering on client needs, and supporting the selling of products.

Responsibilities

• Support the strategy of innovative product creation that supports Visa’s clients in offering sustainable living options for consumers and merchants, and supports clients more broadly in the transition to a Corporate Social Innovation model
• Embed sustainability into Visa products and services
• Lead on planning, tracking and reporting across the function, defining and driving OKRs and providing effective transparency to stakeholders up to executive level
• Collaborate with key stakeholders across internal Visa areas – including but not limited to: Products, Business Solutions, Consulting & Analytics, Acceptance, Communications and other government and merchant teams
• Develop sustainable solution products portfolio and contribute to the build and management of a pipeline of sustainable solution products and client offerings, defining product strategy and use cases Leverage partnerships, experiments and collaborations to develop and scale innovations, working iteratively, and implementing lessons learned across markets
• Drive towards sales targets, winning and retaining diverse range of clients across payments model and government landscape
• Direct interactions with client and Account Executives to understand client needs and develop value propositions

Skills and Experience

•  Awareness of and passion towards sustainability
•  Knowledge and experience of the payments and/or banking industry
• Knowledge and experience of payments product implementation, management and development
• Demonstrated strong interpersonal and communication skills, effective decision making and a passion for driving innovation
• Excellent stakeholder management skills
• Strong planning, organizational and problem-solving skills
• Experience in successfully driving towards commercialization through identifying opportunities and developing products and solutions centred around client needs
•  Experience in tracking deal pipelines and sales management for high impact and growth execution, preferably with experience using pipeline and deal management technologies / software for tracking and monitoring (e.g. Playbook / Salesforce)

EEO Statement

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.

Qualifications

•  4 or more years of 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 PhD

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 two days a week, Tuesdays and Wednesdays with a general guidepost of being in the office 50% of the time based on business needs.