Job Description
Visa Inc. is a global payments technology company that connects consumers, businesses, financial institutions and governments in more than 200 countries and territories, enabling them to use digital currency instead of cash and checks.Visa does not issue cards, extend credit or set rates and fees for consumers. Visa's innovations enable its bank customers to offer consumers choices: Pay now with debit, ahead of time with prepaid or later with credit products. From the world's major cities to remote areas without banks, people are increasingly relying on digital currency along with mobile technology to use their money anytime, make purchases online, transfer funds and access basic financial services. All of which makes their lives easier and helps grow economies.
Behind the Visa brand are more than 6,000 talented employees who continuously raise the bar with innovative solutions and products that deliver the convenience and security of digital currency to more people all over the world.
Position Summary
Visa's Mobile Solutions Group is responsible for identifying new opportunities that exist within the mobile payment landscape, creating strategies that define Visa's participation in those opportunities, and delivering the capabilities required to capture those opportunities. Responsibilities in the Solutions Group involve a strong mix of strategic planning, new product development, and project management. Success in the Solutions group requires a thorough knowledge of payments, the mobile ecosystem, and mobile technology.
Responsibilities
- * Execute on mobile contactless product strategy, supporting product revenue, market adoption and penetration goals in line with defined product and corporate objectives by driving initiatives with cross-functional and cross-regional teams
- * Working with platform development and technology teams, manage the development and launch of key aspects of the mobile contactless platform from concept to delivery
- * Product management responsibilities including leadership of cross-functional and/or cross-regional teams to develop new product development programs and manage existing product development programs to grow adoption and usage of Visa products and services
- * Identify, prioritize and develop mobile contactless product, platform, market and/or service innovations to protect and grow existing revenue streams, to grow new revenues for assigned products, and to support business models with mobile network operators and other mobile value chain stakeholders
- * Manage and develop, in concert with cross-functional teams, a strategy and framework for testing, validation and/or certification for the entire Visa mobile contactless payments platform (i.e., payment application providers, handsets/mobile devices, secure elements, mobile application providers, mobile contactless network service providers, trusted service managers)
- * Lead global or regional implementation of functional product initiatives (i.e. development of guidelines, policies, practices, procedures).
- * Working with cross-functional teams, manage marketplace adoption of new mobile contactless services while recommending improvements and enhancements to capabilities in the development stream to accelerate adoption with key stakeholders in key marketplaces/segments/regions
- * Work with Visa Europe to ensure Visa Inc product development strategy achieves qualities of global interoperability and enhanced time to market
- * Help refine global mobile contactless product vision and strategy to account for evolving regional business needs and mobile contactless ecosystem
- * Support relationships with ecosystem partners and suppliers, such as semiconductor manufacturers, mobile application platform and service providers, mobile contactless form factor suppliers, trusted service managers, processors and mobile network operators
- * Bachelors Degree in Engineering or Computer Science, MBA preferred; Typically requires a minimum of 7-10 years progressively responsible business experience with product development experience in mobile payments and/or mobile platforms.
- * Demonstrated track record of executing on product strategies and leading implementations that delivers measurable business results
- * Experience with defining business requirements to drive technology development
- * An understanding of the mobile payments value chain, where mobile contactless fits, and how the ecosystem fits together
- * Deep knowledge of the mobile ecosystem, with proven experience with handset OEMs, NFC manufacturers, TSM providers, mobile application development and mobile device platforms, including Android, Blackberry, Windows for Mobile, Apple iOS, and Java
- * Understanding of mobile payments technology, including NFC, TSMs, OTA, secure elements, contactless payments, online/remote payments, and chip cards (contact and contactless)
- * Familiarity with Visa contactless payment products, including the underlying specifications and relationship to EMV and GlobalPlatform standards bodies
- * Analytical, fact-based and the ability to synthesize and organize data/information
- * Advanced written and verbal communication skills, exceptional interpersonal and presentation skills and the proven ability to influence and communicate effectively across regional and functional lines
- * Advanced planning, organizational and problem solving skills
- * Exceptional project management skills with the ability to drive consensus in cross regional and cross functional teams
- * Ability to translate product complexities into practical business solutions appropriate for Visa and its clients
- * Flexible and creative thinker with the ability to defined business tradeoffs, generate out-of-the-box
