Product Owner (Network), Manager

About Us
Visa is a world leader in payments technology, facilitating transactions between consumers, merchants, financial institutions and government entities across more than 200 countries and territories, dedicated to uplifting everyone, everywhere by being the best way to pay and be paid.

At Visa, you'll have the opportunity to create impact at scale — tackling meaningful challenges, growing your skills and seeing your contributions impact lives around the world.

Join Visa and do work that matters – to you, to your community, and to the world. Progress starts with you.

Job Description

What does a Product Owner (Network), Manager does:

The Network Integrations Team for Accounts in Visa Direct is responsible for the seamless integration of Visa Direct services with various financial institutions and payment network partners. We enable cross-border payments across the world ensuring that Visa Direct’s capabilities are effectively deployed, maintained, and optimized to facilitate quick, secure and reliable transactions.

This role focuses on Network Expansion. Key responsibilities include supporting and completing key service integration activities, gathering and interpreting business requirements and identifying and building improvements to Visa’s cross border network offering.

What we expect of you, day to day

• Clearly define and communicate the product vision and strategy to ensure alignment with business goals and stakeholder expectations.

• Actively engage with stakeholders to gather requirements, provide updates, and ensure their needs are met throughout the product lifecycle.

• Be a key driver of the Accounts Network Expansion engaging with external partners contributing to Visa Direct’s strategy

• Maintain a well-prioritized and transparent product backlog, ensuring that it reflects the most valuable features and tasks for the development team. Lead agile/scaled agile ceremonies, such as sprint planning and daily stand-ups

• Make informed decisions regarding product features, prioritisation, and trade-offs, balancing technical feasibility, business value, and customer impact.

• Ensure the product delivers a high-quality user experience by understanding customer needs, gathering feedback, and iterating on features based on user insights. Drive the standardisation of business and integration analysis across multiple markets and countries

• Collaborate to set standards and improve data practices across Visa Direct and refine requirements for Payment Network partner integrations

• Present complex and critical network feature demos to relevant Visa Direct stakeholders during sprint demos

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

Qualifications

• Min 8 years’ experience in payment industry, FX, cross border payments, SWIFT payments, ACH payments, ISO 20022, global instant payments schemes

• Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent professional experience

• You’ve got 3+ years in a product ownership, or scrum master in an agile team

• Proficiency in English is required; Mandarin and other Asian languages will be an advantage

• Proven experience working in an Agile methodology environment (e.g. SCRUM, DSDM, Lean/Kanban).

• Excellent communication skills to effectively convey technical and business requirements to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

• You have defined process mapping, driven data transformation, migration and reconciliation projects

• Good technical understanding of web applications and APIs. Solid technical competence in XML, JSON and other message syntax and basic Java knowledge.

• Strong problem-solving skills to address challenges in cross-border payment processes and find innovative solutions.

• Demonstrated ability to manage and deliver on multiple product requirements concurrently, effectively prioritizing tasks and ensuring timely completion of projects in a fast-paced environment.

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.