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
Tokenization is fundamental to Visa's vision to secure digital commerce and enable a variety of new use cases. The VP of Credentials will be on the forefront of Visa's innovation and will oversee a team responsible for design, development and test engineering of Visa's suite of tokenization services which include Visa Token Service and the Token ID suite of services.
Essential Functions
•Partner with product and market teams to scale token adoption by optimizing performance of tokenized transaction and enabling seamless digital experiences.
•Execute technology strategies and key priorities to meet business objectives and strategies with key stakeholders across technology, global product and market facing teams.
•Lead cross-functional global team of senior engineers, solution architects, technical project managers and operations teams to define technology project architecture, technology strategy, and play a leadership role providing guidance to stakeholders.
•Works directly and closely with Platform Products and cross functional stakeholder team to develop multi-year strategic outlook plans, instrumental in defining solutions for large/complex opportunities/challenges.
•Directly responsible for product development of credential platforms, spanning Visa Token Service and Token ID
•Provide leadership and oversight to a globally distributed team (200 ) of technology leaders and developers implementing highly scalable, low-latency, high-throughput software systems that have five 9s plus availability.
•Own the planning, design, and delivery of all product development roadmap items for the vertical. •Establish a culture of engineering excellence with focus on delivering high quality products to production.
•Ensure security and operational posture of the platform meets the highest standards. •Attract, hire, retain and grow top engineering leaders and talent, provide mentoring, coaching and guidance to your staff.
•Drive developer productivity through adoption of innovative technologies/tools and engineering fundamentals & best practices.
•Establishing a culture that values ownership, accountability and creates an environment that enables innovation and continuous improvement.
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 years of work experience with a Bachelor's Degree or at least 10 years of experience with an Advanced degree (e.g. Masters/MBA/JD/MD) or at least 8 years of work experience with a PhD
Preferred qualifications
•Bachelors or Masters with a STEM major (Science, Technology, Engineering or Math).
•15 years relevant work experience, 10 years of technical leadership experience and 10 years of people management experience.
•Experience in leading large, global software engineering technology teams of 200 across multiple time zones and cultures.
•Experience in design, architecture, and engineering of highly available, secure, resilient, and scalable systems.
•Experience in implementing cloud-native architectures and design patterns.
•Excellent knowledge of core engineering best practices and the ability to implement these across the team.
•Highly experienced in best practices and patterns related to API design and system/application architecture.
•Strong knowledge of SSDLC principles and practices.
•Experience working in an Agile based product development setup and matrixed organizations.
•Demonstrated experience in change management concerning the adoption of modern & innovative technologies.
•Experience in crafting a collaborative and innovative work culture that encourages risk-taking and fosters excellence.
•An ability to combine analytical reasoning, creativity, and judgment in handling complex matters, with multiple initiatives going on simultaneously.
•Demonstrated ability to recruit, grow, nurture, retain, and lead high-caliber technical talent.
•Excellent verbal, written, and presentation skills - In particular, a demonstrated ability to effectively communicate technical and business issues and solutions to multiple organizational levels internally and externally as needed to support the strategic goals.
•Deep Payments industry knowledge highly desired
Additional Information
Work Hours: Varies upon the needs of the department.
Travel Requirements: This position requires travel 25% 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 194,700.00 to 267,800.00 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.