What are the responsibilities and job description for the Manager, Strategic Partnerships position at Visa?
The Manager, Strategic Partnerships is responsible for shaping and executing on growth initiatives and projects with strategic global accounts specifically in the stablecoin and crypto space. This includes understanding in depth both Visa and our partner’s capabilities, needs, and goals and driving towards successful outcomes which could come in the form of deal execution, new product or market launches, solutioning and pilots, growing existing business lines, or other strategic priorities. The role requires a professional with strong product solutioning, strategy, and/or business development experience who works well cross-functionally and with clients to form relationships and influence, plus execute towards outcomes.
Essential Functions
Account Management:
- Lead the account strategy, relationship management, and sales plan for key global accounts, orchestrating across internal and external stakeholder and ensuring focus and forward movement on top priorities
- Identify and pursue partnership growth opportunities that provide step-function value, distribution channels, or new capabilities for Visa
- Align cross-functional teams on key initiatives including representation from Legal, Marketing, Product, Operations, Risk, Market Research and Technology.
- Provide reporting, insights, and activate Visa leaders into the account for critical support
- Work with cross functional teams to ensure partner implementations and existing business lines are growing and meeting mutual expectations
- Day to day client operations, in partnership with shared client success resources
Product Solutioning:
- Support and manage discovery, ideation, and product solutioning with partners in a thoughtful and creative manner, while collaborating with key internal stakeholders including product owners and sales specialists.
- Drive opportunities to closure with legal, finance, and product counterparts, oversee product implementation, and maintain product enhancement feedback loop
- Particularly focus sales, GTM, and solutioning work in the growth product areas of crypto ad stablecoin solutions and non-card payments and money movement
This is a hybrid position. Expectation of days in office will be confirmed by your hiring manager.