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The Visa Global Service Experience team are the liaison between Client Services (CS) and Product. This role is recognized as a thought leader and authority on client enablement functions and needs. This role excels at matrix management to ensure Client Services Stakeholders are aware of product enhancements and have a voice in helping mold the deployment process to ensure a scalable, simple enablement and ongoing support process with a client lens. This person will specifically be focused on managing a team of Service Experience Managers ensuring the creation and execution of the deployment and ongoing support model for new products and services.  

Essential Functions:

This Director role is a management position responsible for aiding the team in designing and executing a global deployment playbook for multiple products and services, which includes:

• Maintain a continuous path of global CS communication (CCM, GCT, Regional Client Resolution and Client Success) to provide timely feedback to Product 
• Develop necessary documentation to educate Client Services and to ensure they have the needed artifacts to educate and execute the strategy with the clients 
• Engage in the development and execution of Product KPI’s ensuring regional alignment 
• Identify/Prioritize key product needs, dependencies with regions, define success measures and track status with product 
• Engage with Product to provide input to design, development, implementation, client engagement and support process with regional feedback and a client lens 
• Develop and align on consistent framework for global Client Services resourcing model (where appropriate) gaining regional buy in (i.e. GCT, CCM, Franchise Mgmt, etc.) 
• Define and execute global playbook for product enhancement, with processes, appropriate artifacts and standards applicable to all regions 
• Engage regularly with regional peers to socialize and educate details of the Product pipeline, define processes and artifacts applicable to all regions and gather feedback to modify the approach with product as necessary 
• Support Client Services as an escalation contact for team’s assigned Products/Services 
• Steer Product toward leveraging existing client portal development to scale Continue to educate peers in Product on the value of CS and the correlation toward achieving overall product success   
• Address any technical or security related issues during implementation. Expand knowledge base with new APIs being added to the platform.   
• Serves as primary contact for the Client Service division’s multiple support groups for designated products on team 
•  Provides insight and input to Product and Technology organizations including changes to current products, implementations of new products and the bi-annual business release technical letters. 
• Responsible for workflow assignments and maintain commitments toward taking initiative to resolve problems and meet deadlines
• Audit team’s Service Experience efforts to ensure the client lens is always driving design
• Additionally, this role requires independent leadership responsibilities outside of managing a team, such as:
•  Continuously communicates with others within and outside of the Service Experience to influence the needed direction regardless of position level
• Represent CS to lead multi-year strategic initiatives that require additional expertise and insight to build a non-traditional support model with active engagement to help design the product strategy
• Elevate engagement to address poor product design which creates unreasonable operational debt
• Negotiate with product and technology to jointly overcome support concerns
• Work across business lines (VAS, NPF and CORE) to ensure awareness, ascertain feedback and jointly negotiate lead role for product initiatives that combine multiple products
• Develop strong partnerships with Global Product and Technology teams to be recognized as a key contributor to their success

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

• 10 or more years of work experience with a Bachelor’s Degree or at least 8 years of work experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters/ MBA/JD/MD) or at least 3 years of work experience with a PhD
• Experience using standard MS Office tools (e.g.MS Project, Excel, PowerPoint, Word, Visio, etc.)
• Advanced experience with Excel, ability to create pivot tables
• Excellent verbal, written, presentation and interpersonal skills
• Strong collaboration skills
• Self starter and organized
• Strong leadership skills within a matrix management environment
• Demonstrated technical aptitude
• Able to set priorities, influence others, and manage expectations.

Preferred Qualifications

• 12 or more years of work experience with a Bachelor’s Degree or 8-10 years of experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD) or 6+ years of work experience with a PhD
• Self-starter with a demonstrated ability to achieve results as part of an effective team, effectively prioritize and multi-task under deadlines
• Demonstrated understanding of the payment and data processing industries including industry trends and high-level business drivers
• Exhibit advanced planning, organizational and problem-solving skills
•  Demonstrated strong leadership capabilities with ability to work in a complex organization to define a playbook for all stakeholders to achieve joint success
• Ability to adapt to change and design and execute alternatives
• Experience with digital payments
• Understanding of 3DS and Token Processing
• Expert in manipulating and aggregating Big data - payment data experience is a plus.
• Strategic thinker with superior analytical and problem-solving skills to translate data into meaningful stories and insights.
• Strong communication and story-telling skills in presenting ideas and analysis to various audience levels.
• Advanced tableau experience
• Team player, results oriented and able to handle numerous projects concurrently
• Experienced building and delivering power point presentation to senior leaders.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
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, and reach with hands and arms.
• 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.

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.