Technical Product Manager

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.