Director, Skills Strategy & Execution at Visa

Key Responsibilities:

Enterprise Strategy, Architecture and Execution:

• Serve as the primary enterprise architect and thought partner for designing and delivering the company’s end to end skills strategy.
• Advise senior leaders on integrating a skills lens into workforce planning, talent acquisition, upskilling, mobility, and career development.
• Serve as project owner for the enterprise skills roadmap, including data governance, deployment timelines, skills ontologies, and user experience.
• Champion the transition to skills centric practices across the organization, collaborating with and influencing leaders, HR teams, and functional stakeholders to seamlessly embed skills capabilities and tools across the full employee lifecycle, from hiring to performance to development, globally and regionally.
• Design and execute enterprise skills programs, taxonomies, and capability frameworks aligned to strategic business priorities, partnering with wider teams to drive adoption and alignment to enterprise goals.
• Lead cross‑functional teams and working groups to deliver skills‑related initiatives, identifying risks early and driving issue resolution.
• Maintain expertise in external skills technologies, AI and ML driven skills intelligence, and future of work trends, and translate insights into actionable recommendations.
• Foster a culture of experimentation and iteration, ensuring programs continuously evolve based on business needs and user feedback.

Technology Design & Enablement:

• Serve as the enterprise SME for Workday Skills, guiding configuration, governance, skills inference models, mapping, and data integrity.
• Partner with People Systems and People Technology to optimize interoperability between Workday, Degreed, and adjacent talent systems.
• Coordinate strategy and integration for Degreed SkillsPlus, ensuring the platform drives meaningful skills insights, personalization, and curated development experiences.
• Build governance models, taxonomies, and update processes to ensure high quality, reliable enterprise skills data.
• Use platform analytics and insights to inform workforce planning, mobility recommendations, and targeted upskilling pathways to dynamically match talent to priority work, improving speed to skill and organizational productivity.
• Foster a culture of experimentation and iteration, ensuring programs continuously evolve based on business needs and user feedback.

This is a hybrid position. Expectation of days in office will be confirmed by your hiring manager.

Qualifications

• Proven, progressive experience in a skills SME or talent transformation leadership role.
• Strong understanding of skills trends, strategies, methods, and tools, and experience optimizing systems, processes, and workflows.
• Hands on expertise implementing and governing Workday Skills in a complex, global environment.
• Proven track record of successfully implementing large-scale skills change initiatives, with strong project management skills and demonstrated ability to lead complex cross-functional initiatives across a range of stakeholders.
• Strong decision making, problem solving, and communication and influencing skills, including the ability to partner with senior and executive leaders.
• Strong long-term strategic thinking, problem-solving, and decision-making abilities.
• Ability to navigate ambiguity, manage multiple enterprise level workstreams, and lead cross functional teams.
• Experience in job architecture, including design and implementation.
• Excellent interpersonal and collaboration skills to operate effectively in a highly matrixed environment, with ‘test and learn’ and continuous improvement mindset that embraces creativity, agility, and comfort operating in fast changing environments.