Vice President, Acceptance Solutions Platform

The Acceptance Solutions Product Development team drives the diversification of our revenue with products that differentiate our network and deliver valuable solutions across other rails. The team’s strategy is to increase total merchant value by developing solutions that address complex and emerging merchant and acquirer needs. Our mission is to drive the future of payment acceptance, helping our clients navigate digital commerce complexities and address an increasing need for flexibility and agility.   The goal of the Visa Acceptance Platform is to be the world’s most open payment platform by delivering market leading, globally relevant, omnichannel acceptance componentry through open, composable, modular APIs delivered with Visa-grade resilience, security, maintenance, and scale. The VP will lead product development for the Acceptance Solutions Platform, aligning with key stakeholders across technology, global product and market facing teams.    The Platform organization is organized in 6 Team of Teams (TofTs) each supporting a collection of client capabilities, Data Platform, Shared Platform Services, DevOps, Observability, SRE, and Performance Testing.   This is a global role supporting all regions and aligned to support 6 Acceptance Solutions Portfolios led by 6 VP peers.  This role will report to the Senior Vice President, Product Development, Technology Acceptance Solutions and will be responsible for working with the executive team as well as the commercial product development business partners to aggressively expand Visa’s product portfolios. This is a senior and transformational role, and one of autonomy and next generation thinking. Responsibilities: Directly responsible for product development for the Visa Acceptance Platform. Lead cross-functional global team of senior engineers, solution architects, technical project managers to define technology project architecture, technology strategy, and play a leadership role providing guidance to stakeholders. Provide technical vision and a roadmap to align with the corporate strategy and the technical strategy Provide technical thought leadership and management in building code that is secure and passes all Visa cyber security requirements Provide technical thought leadership and management in building code that has an always-on architecture and uptime/availability characteristics in excess of 99.999% Work closely with product management and the regions to define the right feature set and technical roadmap to support the company vision and strategy across our ecosystem Work closely with cybersecurity and operations & infrastructure to ensure a seamless model of coding, deployment and operations of the code in production Execute technology strategies and key priorities to meet business objectives and strategies with key stakeholders across technology, global product and market facing teams.  Work directly and closely with cross functional stakeholders to develop multi-year strategic outlook plans, instrumental in defining solutions for large/complex opportunities/challenges. Support a globally distributed team of 220+ employees. Manage and enhance our global organizational model and our global workforce in NA, Europe and Asia Maintain operational and fiscal discipline by effectively managing the scope/schedule and budget Lead agile product development teams working with clients (issuers, acquirers, processors and service providers) to commercialize new or existing underutilized products to address broader use cases. Define, coordinate customer change management and support strategies. Strong Intellect. Bright individual, with ability to combine analytical reasoning, creativity and judgment. Quick study, able to handle complex matters, with multiple initiatives going on simultaneously. Able to deal effectively with strategic issues, as well as tactical operational details. Highly Ethical. Can be trusted to do only ... (truncated, view full listing at source)