Senior Director – North America Strategy

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

The North America Strategy team is responsible for business strategy development, coordination, and planning for Visa’s North America region and the team works closely with product, functional and organizational leaders within North America. NA is Visa’s largest region and faces some of the most complex and interesting challenges in the payments industry today. Many of the team’s projects involve working on some of the most pressing business and strategic challenges and opportunities facing the North American business.

Specifically this person will:

• Lead projects or major project workstreams related to Visa Inc.'s North America strategy, business development, or North America specific initiatives
• Manage the day-to-day project and team activities to meet project goals and timelines
• Structure and solve business problems, collaborating and coordinating with a range of internal stakeholders to make recommendations on a wide range of business issues. Build out unique, creative and impactful solutions by integrating insights across Visa's many expert functional resources and supporting collaborative solution development
• Develop rigorous, fact based, quantitative analysis to support recommendations. Ensure strategic and financial soundness and alignment for any recommendations
• Work closely with cross-functional and regional management teams on strategic projects, bringing timely and useful insight and analytical support
• Communicate recommendations to senior management, other executive, functional, or regional staff and management in a clear, concise and impactful way including through executive ready presentations and briefing memos
• Provide continuous coaching and training to strategy teams​ and contribute towards broader team development activities.

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:
• 12 or more years of work experience with a Bachelor’s Degree or at least 10 years of work experience
with an Advanced degree (e.g. Masters/MBA /JD/MD), or a minimum of 5 years of work experience
with a PhD

Preferred Qualifications:
• 15 or more years of experience with a Bachelor’s Degree or 12 years of experience with an
Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, or MD), PhD with 9+ years of experience
• Experience in and/or significant exposure to the payments industry preferred.
• Ability to independently lead and manage projects with multiple workstreams, with proven
leadership success over a wide variety of functional business problems
• Ability to structure and manage complex cross-enterprise projects and processes with multiple
stakeholders at both senior and junior levels
• Demonstrated experience of managing a small team or individuals on strategic projects and
workstreams
• Superior analytical and problem solving skills, with demonstrated intellectual and analytical rigor,
attention to detail and ability to structure and analyze sophisticated financial modeling
• Experience working with economic theories, strategic and prioritization frameworks, scenarios
analysis, and competitive assessments. Knowledge of payment industry revenue drivers a plus.
• Personal presence and ability to clearly communicate compelling messages to senior managers
and external business partners
• Strong interpersonal and leadership skills to influence and build credibility as a peer with functional
and regional leaders within Visa
• Commitment to continuous training and improvement of employees throughout the corporate
strategy function
• Self-starter, team oriented, collaborative, diplomatic, and flexible, with excellent spreadsheet and
presentation skills, including strong oral and writing capabilities

Additional Information

Work Hours: Varies upon the needs of the department.

Travel Requirements: This position requires travel 5-10% of the time.

Mental/Physical Requirements: This position will be performed in an office setting.  The position will require the incumbent to sit and stand at a desk, communicate in person and by telephone, frequently operate standard office equipment, such as telephones and computers.

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.

Visa will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with applicable local law, including the requirements of Article 49 of the San Francisco Police Code.

U.S. APPLICANTS ONLY: The estimated salary range for a new hire into this position is 192,300.00 to 250,000.00 USD per year, which may include potential sales incentive payments (if applicable). Salary may vary depending on job-related factors which may include knowledge, skills, experience, and location. In addition, this position may be eligible for bonus and equity. Visa has a comprehensive benefits package for which this position may be eligible that includes Medical, Dental, Vision, 401 (k), FSA/HSA, Life Insurance, Paid Time Off, and Wellness Program.