Senior Product Manager

In this role, you will be part of the Visa Intelligent Authorization (VIA) product team within Acceptance Solutions. VIA is a modern acquiring processing platform that provides the most secure, scalable, and compliant access to the broadest range of global payment services.

 You will bring strong product management experience of developing innovative and commercially successful products. You will help drive the product execution and strategy. You will manage product execution and delivery for enhancing features and capabilities. This position reports into the Senior Director, VIA Product Suite.

Responsibilities:

• Develop and maintain a prioritized product execution roadmap for Visa Intelligent Authorization (VIA) strategies.
• Drive the vision, strategy, and execution of the product line, ensuring alignment with organizational goals.
• Collaborate closely with development teams to deliver requirements, track execution, and commercialize payment products.
• Demonstrate in-depth knowledge of payments environments (ISO 8583, Schemes, Issuers, Processors, Acquirers, PayFac models) and payment fraud and risk management.
• Interpret mandates, compliance requirements, and technical letters from brands to ensure ongoing compliance.
• Analyze processor specifications, especially major card schemes.
• Produce detailed product and functional requirements to drive development, testing, and deployment.
• Collaborate closely with architects, development teams, and cross-functional product teams to ensure the seamless delivery of features, proactively addressing and resolving potential blockers. This involves maintaining clear communication among all stakeholders, identifying risks early, and coordinating efforts to keep the project on track and ensure successful implementation.
• Facilitate end-to-end product delivery as needed by undertaking any requirement clarification, scoping, creating functional test scenarios, UAT signs offs, release communications etc.
• Advocate for internal and external customer issues and ideas to influence product enhancements and prioritization.

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

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

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
5 or more years of relevant work experience in Product Management.
5+ years of industry experience in payments processing environment
5+ years of experience in product lifecycle management
End to end understanding of Visa’s and other global payment schemes services of authorization, clearing, settlement and others.
Ability to manage the lifecycle of a payment products.
Proven ability to develop new products for B2B clients (acquirers, issuers, large merchants).
Strong experience in working with agile lifecycle (Preferably Scaled Agile Framework) and process management tools, e.g. JIRA, JIRA Align.
Proven ability to develop roadmaps, write user stories, groom product backlogs, and prioritize conflicting requirements in a dynamic environment.
Team player with broad experience collaborating with subject matter experts, product teams, system architects and software engineers.
Strong attention to details, ability to think strategically and independently.
Outstanding communication ability including clearly and concisely communicating any project issues, risks to an executive audience.
Strong customer centric mindset.
Have strong testing skills and should be able to show the ability to think like an end user and perform user acceptance testing.
Good understanding of card payment scheme compliance and industry regulatory framework.
Good understanding of transaction processing surround services (fraud, risk, digital, mobile) and payment industry standards (ISO8583, EMV, 3DS, PSD2) will be an advantage.

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.