Product Analyst

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

Team summary:

Visa DPS is one of the world’s largest processors, providing our customers with innovative issuer processing solutions. Not resting on our laurels, we want to transform and modernize the Visa DPS platform, technology, and product set into a unified best-in-class processing business to drive the next generation of payment innovation for our issuing partners.

What a Product Analyst does at Visa:

Visa DPS is searching for a Warsaw-based Product Owner to play a critical role in the Visa DPS product solution. The Product Owner's primary responsibility is to build products and solutions that deliver delightful experiences with substantial value propositions across the payments ecosystem. To be successful the individual must maintain a high level of coordination and collaboration with multiple cross-functional stakeholder teams globally. The ideal person for this role should have a passion for innovation in payments, technology, and product management, be detail-oriented, and have the ability to drive results within a complex environment.

This Product Analyst r is an individual contributor and will report to the Director, Product Management and will join a team of Product Owner and Product Managers working together to change the way Visa DPS maximizes value for our issuing partners.

Why this is important to Visa:

This role is an opportunity to be part of a growing team that is building future capabilities for Visa. This will be one of the first scrum teams for Visa DPS in Poland and will be part of a larger agile train with a global footprint of teams in Denver, Singapore, Poland and the United Kingdom. The strategically important program will deliver Value Added Services across the globe.

Essential Functions:

• Work closely with clients, partners, business unit leaders, engineering, architects, user experience and global cross-functional counterparts to build, iterate and refine new issuer processing solutions
• Actively participate in feature refinement sessions to gain understanding of new features and provide input on potential areas of impact
• Refines an assigned feature by collaborating with stakeholders, performing market research and analyzing existing solution to ensure business impacts are identified and are accounted for
• Ensure solutions are extensible to all clients and can serve multiple use cases whenever possible
• Play the role of a Product Owner on agile scrum team and will:
  • Bring product vision, customer insights and feedback to the team, setting the business context
  • Ensure an agile mindset in the team delivery
  • Decompose features into user stories and support development activities
  • Actively manage and prioritize team backlog and evaluate changing business/market conditions and impact to priorities
  • Communicate status updates in a transparent manner with key stakeholders on a frequent basis
  • Collaborate with external and internal stakeholders to effectively build, launch, commercialize and communicate new product features
  • Deliver product/feature demos that communicate product value proposition, and features and benefits.
  • Own the feature through development lifecycle until client consumption in production
  • Appropriately prioritize defects based on impact and provide update to stakeholders on frequent basis
• Serve as an expert in assigned areas of product to all internal and external stakeholders, both in communicating updates and soliciting feedback and new ideas to drive better products
• Supports and communicates an overall product vision to both internal and external stakeholders and how it relates to the achievement of long-term business objectives
• Demonstrate leadership principles by communicating openly, collaborating effectively, enabling, and inspiring others, and excelling with partners

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:

• Creative problem-solving skills with the ability to work independently and manage multiple priorities
• Critical thinker with strong analytical skill to achieve goals in an innovative and fast-paced environment
• Organizational and leadership abilities to influence, negotiate and drive results
• Excellent communication skills, including verbal, written and presentation necessary

Preferred Qualifications:

•  Highly motivated team member who cultivates effective relationships with different levels of the organization, clients, and partners to accomplish shared business priorities
• Prior experience working within an agile product development environment and familiarity with tools such as Jira and Confluence is preferred but not required
• Visa and financial/payment industry knowledge is a plus, but not required
• Solid knowledge of how products are developed from a technical standpoint

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.