Solution Manager - Visa Direct at Visa

Job Description

• Visa Direct is a payment service that Visa provides to clients (issuers, acquirers, processors, merchants and payment service providers) to facilitate fund transfers/disbursements to people around the world for Card, Account and Digital Wallets products. This role covers both sides of Visa Direct product – Card and Account/ Wallets.
• The Solution Manager will play a critical role in the development of this rapidly growing business. Working as part of a growing team with a start-up culture, and supported by strong strategy, global product and technical teams, he/she will be responsible for providing consultancy services to originators and to identify, define, and initiate execution of real-time payment technical solutions - keeping in mind evolving market, client and consumer needs and with the objective of driving significant future market growth for Visa.
• The role has direct responsibility for enablement of regional and local Europe region Acquirers. The role holder must possess a unique combination of technical skill, deep understanding of payments, mobile technology, processing, banking systems, consumer behavior, SLDC and Visa’s business. Key

Key responsibilities/accountabilities:

• Engage European Acquirers, Financial Institutions, PSPs, Processors, Merchants, and deliver agreed targets for Visa Direct enabler and originator enablement and growth
• Lead consultancy on best practices covering all aspects of Visa Direct origination for card, account and wallets solutions
• Work with clients and partners to drive enablement and setup optimization that will facilitate revenue growth
• Drive definition of technical solutions that meet partner and Visa growth objectives
• Contribute to the optimization of the current delivery framework and processes to accelerate time to revenue – identifying trends and proposing solutions for common client pain points
• Contribute to the product and process enhancements, identifying areas of improvements and implementing solutions
• Project manage and communicate the enablement and optimization of new and existing clients
• Report against OKRs of their portfolio of clients

This is a hybrid position. Expectation of days in the office will be confirmed by your Hiring Manager. ​

Qualifications

Preferred Qualifications:

• Relevant work experience with a Bachelor’s Degree or at least 2 years of work experience with an Advanced degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD) or 0 years of work experience with a PhD, OR 8+ years of relevant work experience.
• Mid-level experience in a Programmer/Product role for new payment product technologies and capabilities – including technical/commercial/advisory
• Ability to balance complex mix of interpersonal skills, technical proficiency, and commercial judgement to drive outcomes
• Significant experience simplifying the complex and removing commercial and technical barriers to execution
• Experience in engaging with 3rd party vendors
• Good understanding of the payments compliance landscape
• Significant experience working across European markets in the payments sector
• Excellent communication and influencing skills, both written and verbal
• Passion for future of payments
• Excellent analytical skills and exposure in the latest BI tools (e.g. Tableau, Power BI etc.)
• Solid understanding of modern technologies (e.g. APIs, cloud solutions etc.)
• Excellent Programmer/Project Management skills. Exposure in both Waterfall and Agile frameworks is a must
• Good understanding of the full Software Development Lifecycle
• Unbounded intellectual curiosity and bias for action
• Driven, resilient, with attention to detail, great with numbers and positive under pressure
• Good understanding of the Software Development Lifecycle