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

The Product Owner is responsible for maximizing the value of our products and the work of the engineering teams.

They are accountable for answering the questions: What products and features should we build and why, and how do we deliver these to market? This role reports to a Product Director or Group Product Manager.

The Details…

Strategy and Vision:

• Develop a product strategy and roadmap based on deep market, customer, competitor and technology research.
• Secure buy-in for the product strategy from colleagues and stakeholders.
• Translate the strategy and the customer problems into the product backlog for your team.

Discovery:

• Conduct discovery with clients to uncover potential problems and opportunities to tackle.
• Engage with customers and colleagues to ideate new features and products to be developed.

Delivery:

• Manage end-to-end product development, from planning to execution and launch.
• Generate, maintain, and prioritize the product backlog based on customer, commercial, and strategic value.
• Participate in all Agile ceremonies and facilitate team discussions to address problems and remove blockers.

Adoption:

• Collaborate with the Product Marketing and GTM teams to define the go-to-market approach and product positioning.
• Drive product adoption across various regions, segments, and use cases.
• Communicate product performance and impact post-launch.

What Success Looks Like

• Delivery of product strategy, backlog, roadmap, and business cases.
• High-velocity shipping of new features and products that solve customer problems and generate value.
• Consistent delivery and detailed understanding of product development.

Qualifications

• 2+ years proven experience in a Product Owner/Product Manager role, preferably in a software-first Fintech or tech start-up
• Comfortable working with agile frameworks like Scrum or Kanban
• Ability to define a product backlog using standard categories like epics & user stories and experience making tough trade-offs and prioritisation decisions
• Experience crafting a vision for your product based on customer discovery, market research, data analysis, etc.
• Preferably domain knowledge in Fintech - e.g. payments, FX, transaction banking or trading

Personal qualities:
• A self-starter who takes accountability for getting things done
• Top-notch stakeholder management skills, including the ability to influence colleagues in small, cross-functional scrum teams
• Analytical and commercially sharp
• Comfortable challenging the status quo and always curious about the way things work
• Great written and verbal communication skills
• Exceptional structure and attention to detail
• Comfortable working in a scale up or growth environment and as part of a wider team

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.