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

Visa Direct is a payment service that Visa provides to clients (issuers, acquirers, processors, merchants and payment service providers) to facilitate fund transfers/disbursements to people around the world for Card, Account and Digital Wallets products. This role covers both sides of Visa Direct product – Card and Account/ Wallets.

The Solution Manager will play a critical role in the development of this rapidly growing business. Working as part of a growing team with a start-up culture, and supported by strong strategy, global product and technical teams, he/she will be responsible for providing consultancy services to originators and to identify, define, and initiate execution of real-time payment technical solutions - keeping in mind evolving market, client and consumer needs and with the objective of driving significant future market growth for Visa.

The role has direct responsibility for enablement of regional and local Europe region Acquirers. The role holder must possess a unique combination of technical skill, deep understanding of payments, mobile technology, processing, banking systems, consumer behavior, SLDC and Visa’s business. Key Responsibilities/accountabilities

Key responsibilities/accountabilities

Engage European Acquirers, Financial Institutions, PSPs, Processors, Merchants, and deliver agreed targets for Visa Direct enabler and originator enablement and growthLead consultancy on best practices covering all aspects of Visa Direct origination for card, account and wallets solutionsWork with clients and partners to drive enablement and setup optimisation that will facilitate revenue growthDrive definition of technical solutions that meet partner and Visa growth objectivesContribute to the optimisation of the current delivery framework and processes to accelerate time to revenue – identifying trends and proposing solutions for common client pain pointsContribute to the product and process enhancements, identifying areas of improvements and implementing solutionsProject manage and communicate the enablement and optimisation of new and existing clientsReport against OKRs of their portfolio of clients

This is a hybrid position. Expectation of days in office will be confirmed by your Hiring Manager.

Qualifications

 

Experience in a Programme/Product role for new payment product technologies and capabilities – including technical/commercial/advisoryAbility to balance complex mix of interpersonal skills, technical proficiency, and commercial judgement to drive outcomesSignificant experience simplifying the complex and removing commercial and technical barriers to executionExperience in engaging with 3rd party vendorsGood understanding of the payments compliance landscapeSignificant experience working across European markets in the payments sectorExcellent communication and influencing skills, both written and verbalPassion for future of paymentsExcellent analytical skills and exposure in the latest BI tools (e.g. Tableau, Power BI etc.)Solid understanding of modern technologies (e.g. APIs, cloud solutions etc.)Excellent Programme/Project Management skills. Exposure in both Waterfall and Agile frameworks is a mustGood understanding of the full Software Development LifecycleUnbounded intellectual curiosity and bias for actionDriven, resilient, with attention to detail, great with numbers and positive under pressureGood understanding of the Software Development LifecycleAdditional Information

Visa will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with EEOC guidelines and applicable local law.

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.