Visa - Technical/Senior Technical Product Manager

- The right candidate will possess a strong Technical product management background, with demonstrated expertise in leading medium to large cross-functional projects. We are looking for candidates who have demonstrated excellence as a Technical Product Manager in the eCommerce, payment acceptance, internet or related industries.

The successful candidate must be a hands-on leader with the ability to engage in high bandwidth conversations with both business and technology executives. This individual must be able to think broadly about Visa's business and drive the expansion of the Visa Merchant Acquiring and processing platform.

To be successful in this position, this individual must be highly effective working both independently and in cross-functional capacities to identify, define, analyze, prioritize and refine technology requirements across all categories. Successful candidates will be skilled at forging strong partnerships with business sponsors, product owners, architects, and developers to define feature sets, story maps, detailed user stories (functional and non-functional) to support the development process. This function will address bottlenecks, provide escalation management, anticipate and make tradeoffs, balance the business needs versus technical constraints to maximize business benefit.

Beyond the design and planning stages of the development lifecycle, strong Agile expertise is required to collaborate with Scrum teams and communicate requirements to development teams for execution and implementation.

This role will also partner with the cross-functional risk Platform leadership team to help define the road map priorities and ensure that it remains aligned with the broader strategy and priorities. This individual will foster innovation, collaboration, leverage new technologies and champion effective change to build Visa's technology brand through internal and external initiatives.

- The candidate must have demonstrated ability to focus on customers.

8+ years of industry experience as a product manager within a technology environment, with a record of successfully delivering complex software systems or services.

Direct hands on experience with developing technical roadmaps, story outlines, writing user stories, grooming product backlogs and coordinating/prioritizing conflicting requirements in a fast paced, ever changing environment. Detail- and results-oriented, able to analyze data to justify product decisions and apply key learning.

Strong technical experience in Java/MS technologies, API and Web Development.

Strong preference given to those with professional expertise in at least two of the following: merchant solutions, micro-transactions, reporting and reconciliation, web services and cloud services.

Proficiency working in an agile environment.

Strong verbal and written communications skills, position-appropriate mentoring/leadership abilities, ability to quickly master new systems and/or processes, capacity to stay organized while managing competing priorities.

Ability to build and manage API documentation and propose integration solutions.

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent, MBA a plus