Visa Direct is a payment service that Visa provides to clients (issuers, acquirers, processors, merchants and service providers) to facilitate fund transfers, disbursements to Visa accounts around the world using push payment technology, i.e. Original Credit Transaction (OCT). Visa Direct consumer and business applications include person-to-person (P2P) transfer, person to micro-business transfer (e.g. payments to landscaper), funds disbursement (e.g. insurance claim disbursements), bill payment, cross-border remittance and more.
Job Description and Responsibilities
The role holder contributes to Visa Direct platform enhancements and commercialization of Visa Direct services across CISSEE. Responsibilities cover the complete span - sizing the opportunity, thinking through and building a strategy in line with the country business objectives, identifying use cases, engaging internal and external stakeholders to deploy push-payment solutions. Key focus of the role is product and platform development with further deployment with responsibility from business requirements drafting to quality assurance and project management, coordination with multiple internal distributed teams. These new solutions must be deployed keeping in mind the evolving market, client and consumer needs with the objective of driving significant future market growth for Visa in emerging markets. The role holder must possess a unique blend of commercialization and business analysis, implementation skills as well have intimate understanding of payments, mobile money, consumer behavior and Visa’s business. The role will work cross functionally with other functional teams in the markets and co-ordinate the product roadmap and learnings from the wider regional Visa Direct teams.
- Solution Development and Deployment. Be a thought leader and influencer in developing and deploying the solution in the market. The role holder must manage the full cycle of push payment development deployment - articulation of the solutions value proposition for internal and external stakeholders, business requirements drafting, test the plan with key partners and institute program management for effective deployment and tracking of the agreed plan.
- Go-to-market plans. Success of new solutions, platforms require seamless execution based on carefully design market plans. This role leads in defining market plans for push payments with specific focus on defined target markets and solutions.
- Business Analysis and Project Management. New solution rollout has complexities involving multiple stake holders and the projects have tight deadlines and executive accountability associated with it. Role holder will lead product interrelated project tasks and associated deadlines to ensure that they are met.
- Product and Platform design. Recommend and develop product and platform design improvements relevant for CISSEE. As subject matter expert, the role requires developing the knowledge base on these new solutions and customizing them for the local markets and developing industry best practices that can leveraged by local teams in many markets worldwide. Translate specific market needs and feed that that into the global platform development roadmap.
- Partner Management and building local accelerator partners. The role holder provides thought leadership to identify target accelerator partners, co-ordinate with partnership teams to sell-in the solution and manage these partners to deployment.
This is a hybrid position. Expectation of days in office will be confirmed by your Hiring Manager.