Senior Manager, Cloud Product Owner

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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About Us: Visa's Acceptance Solutions Professional Services (ASPS) solves problems and accelerates innovation and growth for our merchants, acquirers, issuers, partners, and payment technology providers by providing a range of services including but not limited to technology advisory and consulting, custom development, integration and implementation, technology, and business transformation, developing target state architectures, customer journey mapping, solution development, testing and migration.

Position Overview: We are looking for a passionate, dynamic and customer focused Cloud Technical Product Owner to join our Professional Services team. The candidate should have a strong technical background in cloud platforms and cloud data domains, should be a thought leader, have exceptional organizational skills, written and verbal communication skills and be an analytical and structured thinker.

The right candidate should possess a strong Cloud Technical Product Management background, with demonstrated expertise in contributing to medium to large cross-functional projects. We are looking for candidates who have demonstrated excellence as Technical Product Manager in the payments, cloud solutions, data solutions, internet, or related industries. The successful candidate must be a hands-on person with proven ability to engage in high bandwidth conversations with both business and technology executives.

Key Responsibilities:

To be successful in this position, this individual must be highly effective working both independently and in cross-functional capacities to identify, define, analyze, prioritize, and refine technology requirements, facilitate, develop, and deliver roadmaps for our client engagements around cloud services and solutions.

Successful candidates will be skilled at forging strong partnerships with business sponsors, product managers, solution architects, and developers to define feature sets, story maps, detailed user stories (functional and non-functional) to support the development process. This function will address bottlenecks, provide escalation management, anticipate, and make tradeoffs, balance the business needs versus technical constraints to maximize business benefit.

Beyond the design and planning stages of the development lifecycle, strong Agile expertise is required to collaborate with Scrum teams and communicate requirements to development teams for execution and implementation.

This role will also help define the roadmap priorities and ensure that it remains aligned with the Client's broader strategy and priorities. This individual will foster innovation, collaboration, leverage new technologies and champion impactful change to build Visa's technology brand through internal and external initiatives.

• Primary responsibilities are to define user stories, create and manage a product backlog.

• Ensures user stories meet the definition of ready criteria and have well defined acceptance criteria.

• Be hands-on with describing business rules as technical artifacts for analysts, business product managers, and any functional team that depends on this information.

• Discuss technical implementation details with architects, developers, and other technical teams.

• Synthesize requirements into acommon set of platform and services capabilities.

• Candidates will be responsible for value proposition definition, communications across technical, business and product functions, cost/benefit analysis, and executive presentations.

• Define product requirementswhich involve writing clear, thorough, and detailed user storiesfor complex features and product sets.

• Partner with scrum masters in sprint team ceremonies including daily stand ups, planning sessions with squads and work with the team to decompose stories into development tasks.

• Prioritize the work for multiple agile IT development teams.

• Participate in daily scrum meetings for the teams executing on projects being driven.

• Work very closely withdevelopment and QA organization as a Product Owner to ensure technical specifications andfinal product meet business requirements.

• Highly execution focused by working in conjunction with various counterparts across functions.

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.

Basic Qualifications:
* 8 or more years of relevant work experience with a Bachelor Degree or at least 5 years of experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD) or 2 years of work experience with a PhD

Preferred Qualifications:
* 9 or more years of relevant work experience with a Bachelor Degree or at least 5 years of experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD) or 2 years of work experience with a PhD
* 5 years of experience in Cloud implementations with one or more of the following platforms - Google, Azure, AWS
* 5 years of experience with Jira management, software development life cycle, and agile development process
* 3 years of experience building data product capabilities
* Knowledge of the latest trends and tooling including Cloud implementation and Cloud-based data platform architectures
* A deep understanding of cloud-based data platform architectures,
* Certifications in Google, Azure Cloud, or AWS
* Knowledge of cloud data technologies, such as Azure Databricks, Azure Data Factory, Azure Data Lake Storage
* Experience interacting with external vendors.
* Knowledge of cloud native architecture, cloud tooling and DevOps
* Broad technical expertise spanning data engineering, data platforms and analytics.
* Experience in the following technology domains: Business Intelligence, Data Analytics, AI/ML, or Data Governance or equivalent
* Experience working in Payment Gateway / Card Payments / Financial Services space (in one or more of the following areas- Core Payments, Alternative Payments, Merchant & Partner portals, Reporting and Reconciliation, Risk & Fraud management, Payment Security, Tokenization etc.).
* Hands on experience in developing roadmaps, writing user stories, grooming product backlogs, and coordinating/prioritizing conflicting requirements in a fast paced, ever-changing environment.
* Proficiency working in an agile environment.
* Exceptional collaboration and partnership skills with the ability to work in a global environment and drive consensus in cross-functional teams.
* Demonstrated interpersonal skills to interface well with clients and partners at all levels.
* Outstanding communications ability to a diverse customer audience, executives, product, and technology stakeholders
* Strong relationship management skills
* Solid business acumen
* Experience demonstrating strong leadership, self-motivation, and accountability.
* Fast learner on both technical and business side
* Strong customer centric mindset.
* Comfortable operating in a matrix setup
* Proactive, demonstrate sense of urgency and 'can do' attitude.
* Detail and results oriented, able to analyze data to justify product decisions and apply key learnings.
* Ability to stay organized while managing competing priorities.
* Excellent verbal and written communications skills

Work Hours: Varies upon the needs of the department.

Travel Requirements: This position requires travel5-10% of the time.

Mental/Physical Requirements: This position will be performed in an office setting. The position will require the incumbent to sit and stand at a desk, communicate in person and by telephone, frequently operate standard office equipment, such as telephones and computers.

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 will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with applicable local law, including the requirements of Article 49 of the San Francisco Police Code.

U.S. APPLICANTS ONLY: The estimated salary range for a new hire into this position is 125,500.00 to 163,200.00 USD per year, which may include potential sales incentive payments (if applicable). Salary may vary depending on job-related factors which may include knowledge, skills, experience, and location. In addition, this position may be eligible for bonus and equity. Visa has a comprehensive benefits package for which this position may be eligible that includes Medical, Dental, Vision, 401 (k), FSA/HSA, Life Insurance, Paid Time Off, and Wellness Program.