What are the responsibilities and job description for the Manager, Cross Border Payments (LAC) position at Visa?
Visa’s Cross-Border Payments team is driving one of the most dynamic growth areas in the LAC region. This role is pivotal in translating global strategy into regional execution, supporting the execution of Cross Border plans, aligning regional projects to drive Cross Border growth, and enhancing client engagement across issuing and acquiring businesses. You’ll work closely with cross-functional teams to identify growth opportunities, remove operational blockers, and deliver measurable impact.
The Cross-Border is responsible for managing strategy development initiatives, program management, and execution, focusing on both core issuing and acquiring business from a Cross-Border perspective.
This role will provide support to the Cross-border team at regional level. The individual needs to be able to translate strategy into tactical execution, and adept at collaborating and building support of cross functional teams, inside and outside the region.
The position is responsible for identifying opportunity gaps, managing tools as well as addressing ad-hoc needs. The individual will work with across functions and geographies to ensure alignment and achieve synergy of opportunities and objectives.
Key Responsibilities
- Support the deployment of the Cross-Border strategy, and coordinate execution of Cross-Border activities for the LAC Region.
- Assist in the management of cross-border strategic programs, and the execution across other functional areas.
- Solve cross-border related business problems, collaborating and coordinating with a range of internal stakeholders to make recommendations on a wide range of issues, including pricing, payment success, and emerging segments.
- Work across functional areas including strategy development, program management and performance monitoring for key strategic indicators, and driving XB initiatives forward to scaled implementation.
- Support communications with several stakeholders across functions.
- Adapt the Global cross-border payments strategy for the LAC Region and develop tactical plans to achieve defined goals, design effective client relationships and business development strategies.
- Understand business opportunities and collaborate with internal stakeholders to deliver solutions and services focused on enhancing Cross-Border volume.
- Manage operational tasks to support the implementation of initiatives.
- Create rigorous, accessible analytic and strategic frameworks to size opportunities, prioritize use cases, and shape go‑to‑market motions by sub‑region and segment.
- Lead end‑to‑end program management for cross‑border initiatives across LAC, from concept through piloting to scaled implementation, with clear KPIs and governance.
- Coordinate execution across Product, Sales, Acceptance, Risk, Finance, Marketing Legal/Compliance, Operations, Consulting and regional country teams, remove blockers and drive accountability.
- Develop clear, concise executive‑level materials, brief senior functional and regional leaders on recommendations, trade‑offs, and progress.
- Proactively share knowledge and deliver training to Sales and cross‑functional teams across LAC to elevate cross‑border capabilities and consistency.
- Track competitive dynamics and ecosystem trends across LAC, surface implications for strategy and product roadmap.
This is a hybrid position. Expectation of days in the office will be confirmed by your Hiring Manager.