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Director, Payment Platform Strategy

Visa · Foster City, CA · 3 wk ago
On-siteEngineering$200k–$320k/yrFull-time
We need to output HTML fragment with sections: About the role? Actually we need to use headings for sections: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. Only include sections that have real specific content. We must not repeat job title as heading. We must not include Job ID etc. Remove boilerplate: About Us, EEO, etc. Also remove application instructions. Keep substantive info: Job Description (Job Summary), Key Responsibilities, What Success Looks Like, Qualifications (Basic, Preferred, Leadership Profile), Information for US Applicants (salary range, benefits, work hours, travel requirements, mental/physical requirements). Also maybe "About Us" is not needed. We need to map content to sections. Section headings allowed: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. We need to decide which sections to include. - About the role: could contain Job Summary and maybe overview. Use

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with job summary. - Responsibilities: Key Responsibilities bullet list. - Requirements: maybe combine Basic Qualifications? Actually Requirements could be basic qualifications? But we also have Qualifications section. The spec says we can have both Requirements and Qualifications sections. We need to decide what goes where. Usually Requirements = basic qualifications, Qualifications = preferred qualifications + leadership profile? But we can also put Skills separate. We need to avoid filler. We'll include: - About the role: Job Summary paragraph. - Responsibilities: list of responsibilities (Key Responsibilities). Could break into subpoints but we can just list each bullet. - Requirements: Basic Qualifications (the bullet points). Could be a list. - Qualifications: Preferred Qualifications + Leadership Profile (maybe combine). Could be a list. - Skills: maybe extract from Preferred Qualifications and Leadership Profile: e.g., "Deep familiarity with payment systems...", "Track record shaping strategy...", etc. But we might just put those under Qualifications. However we need to decide if we include Skills section. The spec says we can include only if posting has real specific content. The posting does mention skills like "Strong analytical skills", "Direct, plainspoken communicator", etc. Those could go under Skills. But we also have Leadership Profile which includes many skill-like statements. Could put them under Skills. - Benefits: from Information for US Applicants: "Visa has a comprehensive benefits package ... includes Medical, Dental, Vision, 401(k), FSA/HSA, Life Insurance, Paid Time Off, and Wellness Program." - Pay: salary range: "$200,000.00 to $320,000.00 USD per year, which may include potential sales incentive payments (if applicable). Salary may vary depending on job-related factors ... In addition, this position may be eligible for bonus and equity." - Schedule: Work Hours: "Varies upon the needs of the department." Also Travel Requirements: "This position requires travel 5-10% of the time." Also maybe "Visa requires at least 3 days in office, expectations of these days will be confirmed by your Hiring Manager." That's schedule/office expectation. So we can include schedule section with those details. We must not include sections with filler like "commensurate with experience". We have actual content. We must not repeat job title as heading. Not include Job ID. We must not include boilerplate like About Us, EEO, etc. We must preserve all substantive information; do not invent or summarize away detail. So we need to keep all details from the posting that are relevant. Let's extract all substantive content: From About Us: we can drop (it's boilerplate? It's about company but maybe not needed. The instruction says remove cookie/navigation/legal/EEO/equal-opportunity/scam-warning boilerplate, duplicated lines, and application instructions. About Us is not explicitly listed as boilerplate but could be considered company overview; but we might keep it under About the role? However the spec says we should use About the role for section heading. The About Us text is generic company description; could be considered part of About the role? Might be okay to include a brief paragraph about Visa as context. But the instruction says preserve ALL substantive information; does About Us count as substantive? It's descriptive of the company, not directly about the role. Might be considered boilerplate? Not sure. Safer to omit About Us as it's not directly about the role and could be considered filler. The spec says remove cookie/navigation/legal/EEO/equal-opportunity/scam-warning boilerplate, duplicated lines, and application instructions. About Us is not in that list, but we might still include it if we want to preserve all substantive info. However the section headings are limited; we could put About Us content under About the role. That seems reasonable. Thus About the role section could include both the company overview (About Us) and Job Summary. But we must not repeat job title as heading. That's fine. Now let's list all bullet points. Key Responsibilities (multiple bullet points). We'll capture each as

  • . What Success Looks Like: bullet points. Qualifications: Basic Qualifications (two lines). Preferred Qualifications (multiple lines). Leadership Profile (multiple bullet points). We'll need to decide where to put them. We could put Basic Qualifications under Requirements, Preferred Qualifications and Leadership Profile under Qualifications, and maybe Skills under Qualifications as well? But we have a separate Skills heading allowed. Could extract skill statements from Preferred Qualifications and Leadership Profile into Skills. Let's parse Preferred Qualifications: - 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 - Deep familiarity with payment systems (card networks, ACH, real-time payments); direct VisaNet or comparable network platform experience is preferred. - Track record shaping strategy or roadmap for platform products used by multiple internal and external stakeholders across regions. - Experience working across two or more platforms or product lines to build a shared roadmap and manage dependencies. - Comfortable translating technical concepts into clear choices and recommendations for senior stakeholders. - Strong analytical skills; able to look at a set of client, market, and technology inputs and turn them into a clear recommendation on what to prioritize. - Track record bringing structure to complex cross-functional decision-making processes involving multiple stakeholders, competing priorities, and platform dependencies. - Direct, plainspoken communicator, written and verbal, who can influence without direct authority. - Comfortable operating in ambiguous, cross-functional, global environments. Leadership Profile bullet points: - A trusted strategic thought partner capable of challenging assumptions, identifying opportunities, and helping senior leaders make difficult trade-off decisions. - A strategic operator who connects regional, domestic, and sovereign market needs to platform strategy, modernization priorities, and long-term investment decisions. - A rigorous facilitator who asks incisive questions and helps leaders sharpen options and recommendations across regional and cross-platform reviews. - A collaborative partner who builds trust, exercises sound judgment, and works effectively across functions and regions. - An exceptional communicator who brings clarity to ambiguity and translates complex platform topics into decision-ready narratives for senior audiences. - A curious, learning-oriented leader motivated by the future of payments, platform modernization, localization, sovereignty, and the impact of emerging technologies and payment models on Visa's platform strategy. - Outcome-oriented, low ego, and comfortable operating with pace in a dynamic, global environment. We could treat many of these as skills. So Skills section could include items like: Deep familiarity with payment systems, Track record shaping strategy, Experience working across platforms, Translating technical concepts, Strong analytical skills, Track record bringing structure, Direct plainspoken communicator, Comfortable operating in ambiguous environments, Trusted strategic thought partner, Strategic operator, Rigorous facilitator, Collaborative partner, Exceptional communicator, Curious learning-oriented leader, Outcome-oriented low ego. But that may be too many and some overlap with responsibilities. However we can include them. Alternatively we could put all Preferred Qualifications and Leadership Profile under Qualifications section as a combined list, and not have a separate Skills section. The spec allows Skills section but not required. To keep sections fewer, we could omit Skills and put those under Qualifications. That would be fine. Thus sections: - About the role (includes About Us + Job Summary) - Responsibilities (Key Responsibilities) - Requirements (Basic Qualifications) - Qualifications (Preferred Qualifications + Leadership Profile) - Benefits (benefits package) - Pay (salary range, bonus, equity) - Schedule (work hours, travel, office days) We must not include sections with placeholder text. All have real content. Now we need to format. Use

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    • for lists. We must preserve all substantive information; do not invent or summarize away detail. So we need to include all details from each bullet. Let's craft About the role: Paragraph: Combine About Us and Job Summary. 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 Summary: "The Director, Payment Platform Strategy is a senior individual contributor responsible for driving strategy across Visa’s domestic and regional processing portfolio. The role will own Visa’s localization and sovereignty strategy, including defining new platform offerings across VisaNet and OVN in partnership with regional, market, and corporate strategy teams. The Director will also provide strategic oversight of broader domestic and regional demand, ensuring clear visibility into current priorities, capacity, work in flight, and the backlog. Working with product and technology leaders, the Director will help shape prioritization decisions and ensure regional teams receive timely, transparent guidance on whether requests can be accommodated and when. This is a hands-on role that connects strategy to execution. The Director will partner with product delivery, release management, VisaNet, OVN, and regional teams to improve intake and handoffs, reduce the time required to reach decisions, expand adoption of the agentic toolchain, and identify opportunities for greater reuse and standardization." We can combine into one or two paragraphs. Keep as one

      maybe long but okay. Now Responsibilities: list each bullet from Key Responsibilities. Key Responsibilities bullet points (as in text): - Localization and Sovereignty Platform Strategy * Own and evolve Visa's strategy for domestic processing, localization, and sovereignty across the platform portfolio. * Partner with regional, market, and corporate strategy teams to define new platform offerings, deployment models, and operating approaches that address evolving market and sovereignty requirements. * Develop recommendations for how market needs should be addressed across global VisaNet capabilities, localized deployments, OVN-based solutions, and sovereign platform models. * Identify opportunities for reusable capabilities and common platform patterns that reduce reliance on market-specific solutions and accelerate future deployments. - VisaNet and OVN Roadmap and Solutioning * Own the strategic relationship between VisaNet and OVN for domestic and regional processing initiatives. * Align VisaNet and OVN roadmaps, modernization plans, and client migration approaches to provide a coherent long-term platform strategy for regional stakeholders and clients. * Evaluate where capabilities should converge vs remain distinct and surface strategic gaps, dependencies, and investment needs. * Assess how regional, localization, and sovereignty requirements should be addressed across VisaNet and OVN, helping define the most appropriate platform approach for different market needs. - Regional Demand Management and Communication * Maintain a consolidated view of regional demand, work in flight, backlog, and investment priorities. * Lead monthly regional reviews and communicate roadmap priorities, delivery expectations, and tradeoffs. * Identify opportunities for platform reuse and common solutions across markets while highlighting areas that require unique local treatment. * Partner with product and technology leaders on prioritization decisions and

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