Job Description

Company Description

Visa is a world leader in digital payments, facilitating more than 215 billion payments transactions between consumers, merchants, financial institutions and government entities across 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.

When you join Visa, you join a culture of purpose and belonging - where your growth is priority, your identity is embraced, and the work you do matters. We believe that economies that include everyone everywhere, uplift everyone everywhere. Your work will have a direct impact on billions of people around the world - helping unlock financial access to enable the future of money movement.

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Job Purpose

The Senior Director, Consumer Credit will be a member of the Canadian Product team which is responsible for the development and rollout of Visa\'s products and platforms in the Canadian marketplace. The team also works collaboratively with issuing and acquiring clients to support their product launches and innovations.

The position will be based in Toronto, Canada and will to the Vice President and Head of Product, Visa Canada.

The Senior Director, Consumer Credit is responsible for leading Visa\'s consumer credit initiatives in Canada and driving an accelerated growth agenda, from ideation to development to delivery to ongoing management of products, platforms and services. Consumer credit products include the core and affluent Visa consumer credit products and adjacent solutions such as installments and loyalty. They will drive the business, build a strategy and manage an agenda with a growth mindset, oversee product launches, client launches, issue resolution, and work with our Sales team and at all levels of our clients. They will work closely with the global Product team to bring the best that Visa has to offer globally to the Canadian market, and they will work with internal and external stakeholders in Canada.

Consumer Credit is Visa Canada\'s largest payment product and represents a significant portion of our Canadian business. This individual will come to be viewed as a leader in the space, someone who can identify and deliver against future client and customer needs, someone who can work with and provide guidance to clients and act on guidance from them, someone who can layout a roadmap for the future.

Key Accountabilities

Product and Thought Leadership

• Be a leader and drive the long-term and short-term agenda for consumer credit products and platforms. Develop and own strategic and tactical solutions for consumer credit products, client launches, etc.
• Stay on top of emerging trends in payments, new technologies, competitive insights and demonstrate thought leadership internally and with clients. Develop hypotheses as to how macro factors and industry trends may affect our business. Work with Visa Consulting and Analytics, data analytics teams, Finance teams, and research teams to accomplish this.
• Stay on top of, and contribute to, what the global Visa products team is developing and look for opportunities to import leading strategies and products to Canada.
• Research, identify and recommend opportunities for adding value to Visa products through potential new product features/services, redefining the value proposition, integrating to mobile based solutions and Visa API sets, and executing third party partnerships as required.

Product Launches and Growth

• Partner with Sales teams to promote and sell product solutions and initiatives to clients.
• Partner with Visa Consulting and Analytics to collaborate on client solutions.
• Partner with the Visa Marketing organization to create strategies and campaigns to promote product growth.
• Partner with the CS and Global Product organizations to execute product launches successfully.
• Ensure compliance with products, brand and risk management standards.

Team Leadership

• Lead a team (currently 4 people) that is responsible for consumer credit products.
• Drive the business, including working with the sales team to deliver on volume, revenue and sales targets
• Build subject expertise within the team for new initiatives (e.g. instalments, loyalty, digital solutions) and ensure that the team is able to deliver on these initiatives in a self-sufficient way (in collaboration with global subject experts where needed but with the goal of building the expertise locally).
• Ensure continuous growth and development for members of the team, with the goal of ensuring that Visa is bringing the best and brightest talent and solutions to drive our business and add value to clients in Canada.
• Ensure that the team delivers with a high degree of professionalism and integrity, a collaborative mind set within and outside of the team.

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
• Possess functional and technical knowledge of the digital payments environment, including ecommerce trends, competitor activity, and market developments.
• Very strong organizational and project management skills, diligent at effectively documenting and tracking key steps and executing against them, and a high degree of comfort and effectiveness reporting to executives succinctly and clearly on an ongoing basis.
• Advanced oral and written communication skills with the ability to strongly influence and direct others at all levels, ability to create presence and be viewed as a thought leader who can shape future thinking.
• The ability to translate analytics, research, client/consumer needs into actionable plans and deliverables.
• Experience working effectively with global teams and local teams.
• Good understanding of client and Visa P and Ls.
• Ability to work with multiple stakeholders and create project teams to assist in execution and implementation of new products or services (Marketing, Sales, Operation, internal and external stakeholders).
• Have strong analytical skills and ability to execute on plans.

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.

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