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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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The Digital Platform Product & Solutions group is on the forefront of Visa's innovation and looking for talented individuals with vision, passion, and determination to make our clients business and consumer products more engaging, seamlessly available, easy to use and secure.

The Digital Product & Solutions Testing and Standards team at Visa manages the certification of third-party partners as well as the product aspects of Visa Ready program. We are looking for a Sr. Manager – Digital Manager of Visa Ready  to support the evolution of its secure digital payments. The focus will be on the certification of digital payment solutions and will support Visa Ready partner programs and Visa regions with solution approvals, and interact with colleagues in Cybersecurity, Product and Risk to establish requirements. 

Visa Ready helps the next generation of technology and enablement partners deliver certified solutions to the global payment ecosystem by providing a framework to streamline the qualification process.  The Visa Ready team is looking for a person who can learn quickly, and work in a team to provide evaluation program implementation and execution support. You will be involved in requirement development, and the assessment of new consumer payment solutions. Based on the dynamic nature of digital payments, this includes providing enhancement recommendations to ensure that the Visa Ready documentation is current.

Essential functions

• Work with the Platform Products team to structure and manage the Visa Ready team’s certification and Solution Approval involvement across multiple programs including Visa Digital Enablement (VDEP) for card present solutions and Visa Digital Commerce Program (VDCP) for card-not-present solutions.
• Ownership of the overall Visa Ready Tokenization programs including program documentation, reporting and portal presence.
• Manage the Visa Ready partner portal administrator activities, ensure portal is in line with existing process and work with the Global Visa Ready team for future enhancements.
• Serve as a subject matter expert that can routinely brief key stakeholders on the Visa Ready process, including interactions with internal and external partners.
• Continuously streamline and automate the Visa Ready certification process.
• Provide situational awareness to appropriate personnel through clear and concise communications
• Respond to and assist with due diligence and internal / external audit requests

Visa has a comprehensive benefits package for which this position is eligible that includes Medical, Dental, Vision, 401 (k), FSA/HSA, Life Insurance, Paid Time Off, and Wellness Program.  

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.

Basic Qualifications
• 8 or more years of relevant work experience with a Bachelor 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
• Project management experience
• Demonstrated ability to achieve results in a complex stakeholder management environment
• Ability to work independently in a faced-paced, complex environment
• Ability to manage multiple priorities simultaneously
• Experience managing programs
• Basic knowledge of modern device, protocol and network security and encryption techniques and standards.
• Good understanding of control objectives, security evaluation goals, security assets, assurance levels, security requirements and test purpose.
• Basic experience with evaluating secure digital payments solutions, especially in the context of gathering and formulating security requirements,and interpreting security reports.
• Familiar with logical and physical security requirements and standards.
• Willingness to learn continuously new relevant techniques in consumer device and digital payment security.
• Must have good communication skills (written and verbal).
• The ideal candidate should hold, at minimum, a Technical B.A/B.S. degree or at least 5 years industry exposure.

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

Visa has adopted a COVID-19 vaccination policy to safeguard the health and well-being of our employees and visitors. As a condition of employment, all employees based in the U.S. are required to be fully vaccinated for COVID-19, unless a reasonable accommodation is approved or as otherwise required by law.

Work Hours: Varies upon the needs of the department.

Travel Requirements: This position requires travel 5-10% of the time.

Mental/Physical Requirements: This position will be performed in an office setting.  The position will require the incumbent to sit and stand at a desk, communicate in person and by telephone, frequently operate standard office equipment, such as telephones and computers.

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.

Visa will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with applicable local law, including the requirements of Article 49 of the San Francisco Police Code.