Product Innovation Director

at  visa

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.
Make an impact with a purpose-driven industry leader. Join us today and experience Life at Visa.

Job Description

• Contribute to payments strategy and product roadmap for digital identity.
• Develop business cases, and prioritise themes and epics, representing EU/UK new opportunities and commercial priorities for global product roadmaps.
• Own key EU/UK product pilot initiative workstreams across digital identity enabling connected hyper-personalized commerce solutions for online and POS payments.
• Drive ID wallet integrations with Visa’s payment platforms in collaboration with different functions, both global and regional.
• Work with clients, partners and standards bodies to balance regulatory compliance with competitive edge.
• Partner the design, solutions & tech teams to create best in class trusted products and user experiences and lead a x-functional digital identity squad.
• Bring high levels of proficiency in writing and managing EPICs, user stories, business and product requirements and take responsibility for EU/UK digital identity product backlog.
• Work with cross-functional teams to take solutions from definition & validation into piloting. Own pilot execution runway including client and partner contracting across markets for business cases being tested.
• Define pilot go to market strategies and successfully manage new products and features in markets.
• Own, evaluate, improve OKRs like conversion rates & revenue targets for pilots.
• Produce various assets from product positioning to product sheets, presentations etc.
• Champion Visa’s digital identity solutions internally and externally.
• Follow market trends, competition, regulation, emerging technologies, and potential disruptive forces.
• Drive thought leadership and innovation by proposing new product concepts and breakthrough features.
• Identify opportunities for strategic partnerships and alliances.

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.
Qualifications

Basic Qualifications:

• Product management with commercial experience across SaaS/Fintech/payments IAM - B2B/B2C.
• Sound technical knowledge of trust service technologies across ID&V, risk &
• fraud, payments authentication, data & AI, consent & privacy management.
• Standards based payments & identity solutions implementation knowledge -
• 3DS, FIDO, SSO, EMVCo etc.
• Track record in new product development across open banking, wallet, card
• schemes and eID solutions for online and POS payments.
• Extensive experience of being a member of teams that operate using agile
• working methodologies and principles.
• You are a change leader, comfortable working in matrixed teams.
• Proactive, enthusiastic and passionate about emerging technologies and
• trends, with extensive experience in working with developers and technical
• teams.
• A good understanding and willingness to apply Human Centered Design
• (Design Thinking, sprints, etc.) principles to your work.
• Ability to work independently and steer complex decisions with different
• stakeholders.
• Great product storyteller, able to convincingly present product roadmap &
• business cases.
• A passion for solving the problems of the future through innovation,
• technology & design to build better businesses for the future.
• Program /project management skills would be preferred but not mandatory.
• Tools - JIRA, Wiki, Figma, MS Office, MS Dynamics, Tableau
• Strong background technology partnership and contract management.
• English proficiency, German optional.

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

Please refer the Job description for details