Director Consumer Products

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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The Director, Consumer Products will be a key member of the agile Consumer Products, Platforms and Solutions team that is responsible for shaping the organization’s product strategies and the development of new product solutions in the Canadian marketplace.  The Product and Solutions team also works collaboratively with issuing and acquiring clients to support product launches and innovations. 

The successful candidate’s primary responsibility will be to lead the implementation and management of Visa’s installments payment product in Canada, along with playing a key role in bringing Visa’s Flexible Credential to the market. They will be experienced and adept at leading complex projects, demonstrating creativity and acumen in building and selling solutions to clients, and issue resolution.  The candidate will be able to identify opportunities, turn ideas into strategies, and secure alignment internally and externally.  They will be able to communicate effectively at an executive level and at a project team level.  Experience in product deployment and strong end to end execution is essential.   Extensive collaboration and ability to build strong working relationships locally and cross-region will be critical to success.   Intellectual curiosity and ability to spot market trends will be key.

This position is based in Toronto and will report to the Senior Director, Consumer Products and Platforms.  This individual will work locally across functional groups and will collaborate with Visa’s NA Product and Global Product teams, clients and technology partners.  The payments industry is a rapidly changing industry, with a diverse client base, and the nature of the work may be fluid and evolve based on market needs.

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

Basic Qualification

• 10 or more years of work experience with a Bachelor’s Degree or at least 8 years of work experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters/ MBA/JD/MD) or at least 3 years of work experience with a PhD

Preferred Qualification

• 12 or more years of work experience with a Bachelor’s Degree or 8-10 years of experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD) or 6+ years of work experience with a PhD
• Proven record of building and or deploying complex and scalable products
• Strategic thinking thought leadership effective decision making and ability to drive for results
• Product management expertise with strong understanding of product development lifecycle including planning product management development and deploying solutions preferably with an agile development team
• Detailed project management approach and ability to multitask while managing priorities
• Ability to conceive technology driven solutions by connecting business needs with capabilities through a customer centric mindset
• Experience creating enhanced customer experiences with a focus on digital journeys
• Strong interpersonal collaboration and communication skills to enable strong working relationships with colleagues across geographies and functional areas ability to communicate at all levels of the organization
• Demonstrated passion for driving payments innovation
• Adaptability tenacity and comfortable with ambiguity

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 welcomes and encourages applications from persons with disabilities. Accommodations are available on request for candidates taking part in all aspects of the selection process.