Senior Director, Open Banking Payments Product

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

Visa Open Banking is seeking a dynamic product development leader to drive the creation and commercialization of innovative open banking payment solutions—such as Pay By Bank and Account-to-Account—for our global client base, including financial institutions, fintechs, merchants, and platforms.

You will have deep experience in open banking payments and a strong understanding of industry standards and trends across key markets, especially Europe, North America, and Brazil. You will lead the end-to-end product lifecycle—from identifying and prioritizing new products, to managing development (not coding), launching, and driving adoption—while collaborating across cross-functional teams in sales, product, technology, risk, operations, and marketing.

We’re looking for a senior thought leader with a proven track record in fast-paced environments who is passionate about delivering outstanding user experiences and building brand loyalty. Occasional travel to client and Visa locations worldwide may be required

Essential Functions

• Develop Open Banking Payments strategy roadmap to drive the creation and execution of multiple new products and triage additions/changes to the roadmap, as needed
• Be fully responsible for commercial success of product development strategy, innovation launch and commercialization
• Partner with Sales Account Executives, Visa Client Consulting, Product Strategy, Risk Products, Innovation and Digital teams to understand B2C and B2B user needs, pain points and opportunities
• Partner with finance, strategy, legal and other functions to define pricing strategy, pricing model, and incentives approaches, as applicable
• Define the business case for funding, build internal support, design the execution roadmap and establish success metrics
• Collaborate with Global functions to develop the detailed product requirements and execute the technology build
• Effectively communicate the commercialization roadmap across the organization
• Establish program and work across Sales, Marketing, Risk and Customer Support to fulfill product and launch objectives
• Define, coordinate, and manage customer support strategy and execution
• Develop guides and best practice tools for clients and partners to use during commercialization and support ongoing usage going forward
• Be a thought leader for developing the overall Open Banking Payments Product vision, business plans and overall development roadmap
• Influence policy when needed
• Develop presentations and facilitate update meetings with the senior leadership team, and actively manage organizational expectations regarding product and enhancement rollouts

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

Qualifications

 

• Self-starter with a bias toward action and proven track record for successfully developing, building, launching and commercializing technology products that delight customers
• Experience leading product management, project management and or management consulting
• Experience designing cross-platform products
• Demonstrated thought leadership and the aptitude to think creatively and identify new ways to innovate and differentiate products with evidence of tangible business results
• Ability to inspire direct reports, where applicable, and influence those without direct management responsibility
• Possess a high level of professionalism and leadership skills to build business relationships, trust and respect with business partners and suppliers
• Strong team player, self-motivated and the ability to work independently at coordinating cross functional activities, obtain buy-in and elevate issues at critical junctures appropriately
• Excellent communication skills, including verbal, written and presentation necessary. Active listening skills required
• Proven project development experience
• Strong sense of urgency and experience driving to successful commercialization
• Ensure personal efforts are integrated and aligned with functional objectives
• Strong collaboration and influence skills to effectively lead cross-functional teams to drive deliverables, projects and engagements to completion
• Take prompt, decisive action after analyzing relevant information
• Ability to explain complex business and technical concepts to a broad audience in an approachable way
• Comfort working closely with Engineering and/or Systems Architects required
• Experience partnering with technologists using Agile or other expedited design and development methodologies preferred
• Project Management certification a plus
• Visa and financial/payment industry knowledge is a plus, but not required

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): Stockholm, Sweden

Job ID: 91453896-09d0-4db4-ad4c-6b262aae882b

Employment Type: OTHER

Posted: 2025-07-23T09:57:06