Job Description

Company Description

Visa is a world leader in digital payments, facilitating more than 215 billion payments transactions between consumers, merchants, financial institutions and government entities across more than 200 countries and territories each year. Our mission is to connect the world through the most innovative, convenient, reliable and secure payments network, enabling individuals, businesses and economies to thrive.

When you join Visa, you join a culture of purpose and belonging - where your growth is priority, your identity is embraced, and the work you do matters. We believe that economies that include everyone everywhere, uplift everyone everywhere. Your work will have a direct impact on billions of people around the world - helping unlock financial access to enable the future of money movement.

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What a Senior Director for QR Center of Excellence does at Visa:

As a lead of this Center of Excellence you would be responsible for:

• Championing Visa\'s QR response to diverse market segments including: (a) mature markets where QR participation has reached a scale, (b) markets situated on the threshold of substantial expansion, and (c) nascent markets that are at the early stage of QR adoption. Across these markets you will establish a QR participation framework for domestic as well as cross border QR payments.
• Internally, you would engage with senior executives of Visa such as Product and Merchants Sales and Acquiring leadership teams, Corporate Strategy, Group Country Managers. Externally, it would be evangelist of Visa\'s QR strategy with Issuers, Acquirers, BigTech, Fintech, Regulators, and industry forums.
• You will shape the go to market plan for identified countries. This would include determining the participation model for that country, setting the right transaction economics, identifying partners to achieve scale faster, building end user Customer Value Proposition (CVP) and, promotional plans to accelerate ecosystem built up.
• To execute against the plan, you will be supported by a cross functional team across strategy, product commercialization, marketing, acceptance, implementation services, and in-market colleagues. You will also have a lean team directly reporting to you, which will be expanded as the business scales.
• You and your team will be responsible for gathering product development requirement, prioritizing them and, publishing the global product roadmap for QR code. One key area of responsibility will be to determine the revenue streams adjacent to the QR payment transaction and, then recommend built or buy decision for those adjacent value-added services.
• As a part of your on-going responsibilities, you will maintain a programmatic approach to the activities of center of excellence, report periodic progress and, raise key issues & risks to gather support within the organization.

Why this is important to Visa

The QR Center of Excellence is one of the key initiatives for maintaining Visa\'s payment leadership position in everyday spend. It is established to increase Visa\'s relevance in the mind of consumer and merchants, growth revenue & payment volumes and, for creating new revenue streams through VAS. This lead role will shape its direction and agenda.

Projects you will be a part of:

As a lead of QR center of excellence you will generate impact on multiple fronts.

• You will have the opportunity to drive innovation in the field of QR payments especially in identifying new value-added product capabilities.
• You will engage the senior leadership of Visa and shape the thinking of the organization on QR based payment.
• You will generate new revenue streams for Visa while delivering a better payment experience for merchants and consumer.
• As this QR space is rapidly evolving its means you\'ll be constantly learning and problem solving, as a professional there will always be something new to explore and understand.

Qualifications

What you will need:
We are looking for an individual who brings breadth of experience, a curiosity about payments, is results-driven and, client-focused. As a candidate, you should have:

• 15 years of work experience with a bachelor\'s degree, 12 years of work experience with an Advanced degree (e.g. Masters/MBA/JD/MD)
• Previous experience in payment is a mandatory requirement for this role. It would be preferred if the candidate has worked with cross functional team, fintech, big-tech or has lead creation of new payment ecosystem from ground-up.
• You should be able to adopt a blank sheet approach and not operate on pre-conceived thought process or structures.
• Demonstrated ability to build and maintain strong business relationships with internal and external stakeholders at executive levels. The candidate should have previous people management experience.
• Demonstrated ability to manage complex issues exercising critical thinking and sound judgment and, to lead cross functional teams through issues that do not have precedent.
• Proven track record of leading and driving cross functional teams to achieve and exceed established goals and objectives.
• Ability to influence and negotiate to drive results, using analytics to measure performance against key initiatives.
• Prior experience in QR payment, fintech or, leading new commercial or, a functional lead role would be advantageous but not mandatory .

Additional Information

Visa is an EEO Employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability or protected veteran status. Visa will also consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with EEOC guidelines and applicable local law.

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