Senior Director - Consumer Products: SSA

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Johannesburg, Gauteng
Senior level
Fintech • Information Technology • Payments
Join a world leader in payments and technology!
The Role
The Senior Director of Consumer Products at Visa will lead a team to manage product development, localize global products, and execute revenue-generating strategies. The role requires collaboration with various teams to enhance consumer benefits and product adoption while ensuring financial performance metrics are met. The director will spearhead new product launches, improve customer propositions, and uphold Visa's core product policies.
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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.

Make an impact with a purpose-driven industry leader. Join us today and experience Life at Visa.

Job Description

  • Identify, develop, lead and inspire a team of innovative and engaged individuals
  • Manage local products development and ensure localization of global products to cover market needs, to come up with and execute revenue generating product strategies
  • Focus on delivering best in class products and delivering financial performance
  • Partner with other product teams across solutions, value added services and beyond on a wide range of diverse product initiatives.
  • Communicate cross-functionally to ensure consumer benefits and product features sales and adoption across all sales division (business development, merchant sales and acquiring, digital partnerships), and obtain appropriate level of operational support
  • Manage and meet business metric performance for Products and Solutions and SSA scorecard
  • Engage with clients to co-create new solutions, drive adoption of existing products and manage obstacles effectively
  • Champion Visa values across the organization
  • Manage existing product benefit providers with a view on improving customer proposition and balanced with optimizing return on Visa investment
  • Launch New product - includes expanding coverage of existing products to new markets as well as creating new variants based on regional requirements
  • Explore continuous improvement opportunities in the value proposition including customer benefits, services and overall user experience
  • Manage all existing CVPs and benefits.
  • Custodian of the SSA core product rules and policies.

This is a hybrid position. Hybrid employees can alternate time between both remote and office. Employees in hybrid roles are expected to work from the office 2-3 set days a week (determined by leadership/site), with a general guidepost of being in the office 50% or more of the time based on business needs.

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications
12 or more years of work experience with a Bachelor’s Degree or at least 10 years of work experience with an Advanced degree (e.g. Masters/MBA /JD/MD), or a minimum of 5 years of work experience with a PhD
Preferred Qualifications
15 or more years of experience with a Bachelor’s Degree or 12 years of experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, or MD), PhD with 9+ years of experience
•Plus 8 years experience in financial and fintech industries, leading product individuals/teams and delivering on product development agenda.
•Business related degree
•Strong understanding of the clients’ business and how it aligns with Visa’s strategy
•Project management skills and strong execution capability to deliver against tight deadlines
• Strategic thinking, strong analytical skills and financial acumen
• Self-directed and motivated with the ability to operate in a fast paced and constantly changing work environment
• Digitally curious, follows industry trends and can utilize this exposure to develop Visa’s products, customer experience and digital offerings
• Solid interpersonal skills, ability to effectively work and collaborate across the organization

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.

The Company
HQ: San Francisco, CA
26,500 Employees
On-site Workplace
Year Founded: 1958

What We Do

At Visa, we are driven by a common purpose – to uplift everyone, everywhere by being the best way to pay and be paid. As our products and technology have evolved with the world, Visa remains ubiquitous, reaching new customers in new and often invisible ways. We are at the center of this digital revolution with a network that connects people with over 80 million businesses all over the world. And Visa’s network is expanding, accelerating our growth. Our resilient business model, with its strong track record of success, will provide you with amazing opportunities to grow in your career, as well.

We are looking for people like YOU. Come join a people-centric company where you can invest in your career.

For more information, visit visa.com/about, visacorporate.tumblr.com and @VisaNews on Twitter.

Why Work With Us

Our employees are our company. Creating an inclusive and diverse workplace has been our key priority. With our purpose to “uplift everyone, everywhere” as our guide, we’re building an environment where diverse backgrounds and perspectives are celebrated and drive success inside our company and out in our communities.

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