Technical Product Manager Full Time

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.

Join Visa: A Network Working for Everyone.

Job Description

Are you passionate about conceptualizing, nurturing, developing, and proving new ideas and developing them into new solutions? Would you like to help create the next major innovation in and around the payment landscape pioneering and leveraging the most advanced devices, hardware and software in the world, anything, and everything in and around world’s largest payment ecosystem?

We’re looking for a seasoned individual to drive game-changing innovation in and around Visa’s partner eco-system for Central Europe , Middle East and Africa . You should have experience driving multi-skilled teams capable of rapid prototyping of new ideas as well as scale these to commercial solutions. You and the team will be at the forefront of strategic partnerships, breakthrough technologies, new ideas, hackathons, demos, and rapid prototyping. You will work closely with business development teams, partners, and internal product teams and cross- leverage engineering talent internally and externally.

Responsibilities

Be at the heart of developing new ideas into demo-able products, and ultimately to commercial product
Work alongside and collaborate with UX, engineering, and partner teams to deliver products, features, services, and tools
Drive rapid prototyping cycles – translating business requirements to technical requirements
Break down business/product requirements into clear, thorough, and detailed user stories for complex features and product sets
Help define the broader roadmap for the group and work closely with stakeholders in prioritization of roadmap deliverables.
Participate/Drive sprint planning, daily stand ups, product demos, test phases, retrospectives to ensure on-time and high-quality delivery
Work very closely with development and QA organization to ensure technical specifications and final product meet business requirements
Derive insights from data and help drive decision making
Maintain release plans and publish release notes to stakeholders
Provide oversight to develop user guides, user training materials
Provide product demos, user training and support for adoption of features and applications
Define success metrics and SLAs on the key products and services
Understand User Experience, design thinking and its importance to product features
Consult on a regular basis with leadership to align expectations and deliverables
Able to scale the successful pilots to full commercial solutions
Use stubs as needed to simulate capabilities lighting up soon
Work collaboratively across team boundaries to share common infrastructure and functional capabilities. Provide feedback into core product teams to influence their roadmap and strategy

This is a hybrid position. Hybrid employees can alternate time between both remote and office. Employees in hybrid roles are expected to work from the office two days a week, Tuesdays and Wednesdays with a general guidepost of being in the office 50% of the time based on business needs.

Qualifications

Passion for innovation, new ideas, quick prototyping, hackathons etc.
Prior work exploring and innovating new IP, genres, and product experiences
Professional experience in ideation and incubation which has led to shipping products
Multi-disciplinary skills and experience in ideation, product definition/solutioning and software design
Solid understanding of payment industry and multi-channel commerce space
Experience, ideas, and opinions about emerging trends such as Biometric Authentication, Internet of Things, and Digital Currency
Proven skill-set and track record in developing one line ideas into products
Strong written and verbal communication skills
Self-motivated and drive for excellence
Have an open-minded approach to development strategy and approaches
Capable of building culture for innovation
Core technical understanding/comfort level, ideally in multiple technology stacks for web development, APIs and Mobile application development on diverse platforms
12+ years of overall industry experience of which 4+ years is in a technical program/ product management role with increasing responsibility
MS or BS in Computer Science or equivalent

Bonus Qualifications:

Prior experience working in a start-up or at VC firms in a “Resident Entrepreneur” capacity
Financial services and/or payments processing industry experience is a plus
Patents and other proofs of past success in creating IP
Fluent in discussions about API design, SDKs, and developer tools
MBA and/or advanced technology degree is a plus

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.