What are the responsibilities and job description for the Sr. Director, Data Science position at Visa?
To ensure that Visa’s payment technology is truly available to everyone, everywhere requires the success of our key bank or merchant partners and internal business units. The North America Data Science group supports these partners by using our extraordinarily rich data set that spans more than 3 billion cards globally and captures more than 100 billion transactions in a single year. Our focus lies on building creative solutions that have an immediate impact on the business of our highly analytical partners. We work in complementary teams comprising members from Data Science and various groups at Visa. To support our rapidly growing group we are looking for a Sr. Director, Data Science who are equally passionate about the opportunity to use Visa’s rich data to tackle meaningful business problems.
Essential Functions:
- Lead data science team supporting issuers or merchants, including project oversight, coaching and professional development
- Manage offshore relationships, including vendor management, performance tracking and onboarding/offboarding activities
- Manage Data Engineering relationships, including creating and maintaining roadmaps and prioritizations
- Manage 5 to 10 projects in parallel, from conception to completion utilizing a team of 5 to 7 experienced professionals
- Experience building and managing teams of data scientists
- Strong analytical skills, with demonstrated intellectual and analytical rigor and ability to work with large data sets to synthesize key impacts for clients.
- Develop propensity, segmentation, and other predictive models to drive business impact
- Proactively engage with clients and Visa client leadership in regular strategic & planning discussions, cultivate and manage a pipeline of work with clients
- Develop frameworks, approaches, solutions, and recommendations that effectively and efficiently address the most impactful opportunities and challenges.
- Partner with peers in other functional areas (e.g., marketing, analytics, risk, innovation) and across global regional teams to execute projects in ways that leverage the breadth and depth of Visa’s resources
- Executive Presence including excellent communication and presentation skills, written and verbal and ability to communicate at all levels within large organizations.
- Demonstrated leadership, managerial and collaboration capabilities, particularly with those who are not direct reports as may be found in a matrixed organization.
This is a hybrid position. Expectation of days in office will be confirmed by your hiring manager.