Data Science Director

Company Description

Fascinated by the future and captivated by technology?

Smart, driven and want to make a difference in the world?

You’ll fit right in.

Join a diverse team at Visa, where your individuality fits right in. We can provide the opportunity to shape the payments experience globally. Together, let’s transform the way the world pays.

Think you know us?

Our mission is to connect the world through the most innovative, reliable and secure digital payment network that enables individuals, businesses and economies to thrive.

Individuality fuels our brand and our global team – we’re proud that we are a talented team of 15,000 individuals with unique backgrounds, perspectives and experiences. Therefore, we understand that you are much more than your day job. We encourage quality of life outside of the office, whether it’s taking advantage of agile work schedules or our wellness programs, Visa respects and encourages meaningful work/life balance for everyone. In addition, we offer market leading salary and have a fantastic benefits offering.

So, if you’re not satisfied with the status quo, we can satisfy your desire to explore new territory, giving you the runway to really make an impact, whilst connecting you with teams around the world in a truly inclusive culture that celebrates our uniqueness.

Job Description

If you think you could support Visa’s internal CEE (Central Eastern Europe) stakeholders as a Director for the Data Science & Analytics team, we want to hear from you – together, let’s make Visa a great place to work.

What’s it all about?

This role supports our CEE teams, acts as the primary lead and Data Science evangelist for our internal stakeholders in the CEE region. We are seeking strategic and analytical thinker to shape data driven strategies for Visa’s CEE teams to support their tactical and strategic requirements. The role will partner with our Global teams that draws on Data Science capabilities to grow support our stakeholders.

What we expect of you, day to day.

• Provides thought leadership to the CEE stakeholders and the leadership team in data science and analytics techniques and business applications to unlock the value of Visa’s unique data set
• Lead a team of at least 5, including at least 1 Senior manager and 4 managers
• Understand strategic (i.e. 3/5-year plan) and tactical needs (i.e. annual plan) for our stakeholders, can create roadmaps and deliver them.
• Evangelizes the creative use of data and analytics to solve business problems with internal clients
• Identifies how data science and predictive techniques can be used to enhance existing products, including core applications, consumer applications and our Value-added services teams.
• Partners with our Global Product IDA team to support and leverage any global solutions to better support our stakeholders.
• Able to lead the delivery of data science and analytics projects (utilizing delivery resources) during times of capacity issues
• Identifies trends in our client work to inform Visa’s data product development path
• Proactively identifies opportunities to drive increase revenue in the region to support delivery of the business plan

This is a hybrid position based in the Warsaw office. This requires 3 days per week (Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays) attendance in the office.

Qualifications

What we’re after…

• Extensive experience in data science or analytical functions
• Experience leading teams and/or projects that deliver data driven insights
• Experience in payment, retail banking, or retail merchant industries
• Proven experience building, leading, and inspiring high-performing virtual teams to deliver against client’s objectives
• Operates as a thought leader, with the ability to guide, influence and inspire performance across the data science function and sales teams
• Team oriented, collaborative, diplomatic, and flexible style, with the ability to tailor data driven results to various audience levels
• Strong consultative skills to establish effective relationships with our clients and the sales teams
• Ability to communicate at all levels with both business and technology leaders to build consensus and influence Visa’s direction
• Results oriented with very strong analytical, consultative and problem-solving skills, with demonstrated intellectual and analytical rigor
• Fluent in English and Polish

Technical Experience

• Fluent with Python/Spark, SQL and processing large data sets
• Used at working with productivity tools such as Jira/Confluence
• Confident with BI tools such as Power BI/Tableau
• The ideal candidate holds an advanced degree in a quantitative field such as statistics, mathematics, engineering, or economics
• Understanding of advanced analytics techniques and emerging forms of analytics

Think you have what it takes?

If you are interested in a career that will challenge and inspire you – we’d love to hear from you!

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.

Client-provided location(s): Warsaw, Poland

Job ID: 0ab1ed6c-81a5-43cd-92b8-87bef9e270d4

Employment Type: OTHER

Posted: 2025-10-30T17:14:25