Company Description
Visa is a world leader in payments and technology, with over 259 billion payments transactions flowing safely between consumers, merchants, financial institutions, and government entities in 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 while driven by a common purpose – to uplift everyone, everywhere by being the best way to pay and be paid.
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Job Description
As a member of the Global Product team, the Product Analyst will interact with business stakeholders to inform strategy on key initiatives and collaborate closely with the Technology organization to implement a delivery plan for features & functionality.
They will support the Sr. Manager, Product Management and assume ownership of solution architecture design and API specifications to ensure that the solution is extensible and can scale to support multiple regions globally. Daily activities will range from requirement gathering, research and planning, communicating with stakeholders, writing user stories, interacting with design and development teams, and conducting acceptance testing. This is an individual contributor role focuses on agile methodology, collaborating cross-functionally with both internal and external stakeholders.
Essential Functions:
- Participate in roadmap planning and setting product vision
- Support and participate in problem solving and solutioning at a global scale or for specific countries or regions
- Lead backlog refinement, iteration planning, and elaboration of the user stories and acceptance criterias in partnership with our technology and product design teams
- Collaborate with Cardinal teams to translate business requirements into technical functional requirements and be able to articulate those to the engineering team
- Work with the team to support new innovative features and products offerings
- Partner with the product delivery and commercialization teams to create support and training materials for internal and external users
- Participate in mitigating impediments to successful team completion of release and sprint goals
- Keep relevant in agile best practices and trends
- Communicate clearly and regularly on timelines, product features, and enhancements to cross-functional groups
- Serve as a subject matter expert to internal teams and key clients
Competencies:
- Possess a unique blend of business and technically savvy
- Successfully handle multiple priorities against tight deadlines
- Analyzing the market to understand their problems and find innovative solutions for the broader market
- Proficient in running cross-functional meetings to clarify, define, and track client and market opportunities
- Strong communicator capable of developing clear and concise messaging from complex or technical ideas
- Demonstrates an understanding of core business drivers that influence the operational and financial results of a program or commercial release
- Strategic, well-organized individual that pays attention to details
This is a hybrid position. Expectation of days in office will be confirmed by your hiring manager.
*** Sponsorship will not be available for this role (including H1B OPT CPT) -- USA work authorization will be required -- No relocation will be available for this position.
Qualifications
Basic Qualifications
- 2 or more years of work experience with a Bachelor’s Degree or an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD, or PhD)
Preferred Qualifications
- 3 or more years of work experience with a Bachelor’s Degree or more than 2 years of work experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD)
- Minimum of a Bachelor’s degree in a technical or related discipline.
- In lieu of a degree, a high school diploma or equivalent with four or more years of related experience and/or training, or an equivalent combination of education and experience, will be considered.
- 5+ years’ experience in technology as a developer or technical product manager
- Strong knowledge of agile and project management tools such as Jira, Confluence, Figma.
- Passionate about product quality with an understanding of effective, user-friendly, and resilient API design.
- Significant expertise in API design – you should understand what contributes to an exceptional developer experience and be an advocate for good API design choices, including the naming of individual parameters.
- Ability to delve into data, think from fundamental principles, and produce the desired outcomes.
- Reputation for being a collaborative thought partner and business leader, with ability to organize and motivate work across multiple team boundaries
- Excellent written and spoken communication skills with a knack for accurately expressing user issues.
- Demonstrated ability to think strategically and effectively communicate and present
- Exhibits a sense of responsibility and is willing to tackle any problem to satisfy customers
- Strong understanding of software development methodologies, including Agile/Scrum, and experience working in an Agile environment.
- Payments industry knowledge
- Proven track record of planning and rolling out large-scale product launches
- Familiarity with SQL, coupled with first-hand experience in developing against APIs.
Additional Information
Work Hours: Varies upon the needs of the department.
Travel Requirements: This position requires travel 5-10% of the time.
Mental/Physical Requirements: This position will be performed in an office setting. The position will require the incumbent to sit and stand at a desk, communicate in person and by telephone, frequently operate standard office equipment, such as telephones and computers.
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.
Visa will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with applicable local law, including the requirements of Article 49 of the San Francisco Police Code.
U.S. APPLICANTS ONLY: The estimated salary range for a new hire into this position is 94,100.00 to 132,900.00 USD per year, which may include potential sales incentive payments (if applicable). Salary may vary depending on job-related factors which may include knowledge, skills, experience, and location. In addition, this position may be eligible for bonus and equity. Visa has a comprehensive benefits package for which this position may be eligible that includes Medical, Dental, Vision, 401 (k), FSA/HSA, Life Insurance, Paid Time Off, and Wellness Program.