Senior Product Owner

Visa hybrid • Readingfull_time

Open VisaNet (OVN) is the next generation of Visas core payment service—VisaNet. OVN leverages best‑in‑class technology components to deliver a highly scalable, secure, cost‑effective, and distributed application on commodity hardware. As one of Visas key strategic initiatives, OVN will enable Visa to support in‑country and global processing solutions while transitioning away from proprietary hardware systems. Realizing the OVN vision requires an exceptional team of software engineers, security specialists, DevOps engineers, payment experts, infrastructure architects, and business analysts.

Delivered using Agile practices aligned with SAFe, the Technical Product Owner (TPO) will own assigned VisaNet capability areas for implementation in OVN. You will collaborate with Visa business teams and technical SMEs to document requirements, define Features and Stories, manage the Team Backlog, and lead product delivery.

What You will Do (Essential Functions):

  • Requirements Definition — Define and document detailed functional and non‑functional requirements for OVN, spanning current VisaNet payment capabilities, interfaces to other Visa systems, and requirements for OVN technical components.
  • Technical Analysis — Partner with Visa SMEs and Analysts to articulate existing system behavior at a detailed technical level through analysis of specifications and code.
  • Backlog Management — Write Features and Stories own and continuously refine the prioritized Team Backlog.
  • Strategic Alignment — Engage Visa product teams and stakeholders to ensure OVN capabilities align with Visas product strategy.
  • Requirements Quality — Collaborate with Architects and development teams to ensure requirements are accurate, complete, testable, and consumable by diverse users.
  • Quality Assurance Collaboration — Partner with QA to co‑create testing artifacts and traceability to acceptance criteria.
  • Team Coaching — Coach development teams on Visa switching, clearing, and settlement processing as it relates to OVN requirements.
  • Stakeholder Engagement — Participate in presentations and discussions with clients and stakeholders to articulate OVN capabilities and value.
  • Leadership Collaboration — Consult with leadership to align expectations, surface risks, and prioritize deliverables.
  • Agile Ceremonies — Lead Team Demos and contribute to Retrospectives, driving continuous improvement.

This is a hybrid position. Expectation of days in office will be confirmed by your hiring manager.