Sr. Product Manager (Visa Direct Ecosystem) at Visa

Visa Direct is a suite of products that Visa provides to clients—including issuers, acquirers, processors, merchants, and service providers—to enable the movement of money to cards, accounts, and wallets globally. One of the prime responsibilities of the Visa Direct Ecosystem team is ensuring that the payment stakeholders that sit between a company that wants to pull funds or disburse funds to a Card, Account or Wallet and the Visa network can successfully support Visa Direct transactions. The Visa Direct Ecosystem Readiness team works cross-functionally with Visa sales, Client Services, Risk and AML, Finance, Product, Technology, and Legal teams to ensure successful ongoing ecosystem performance. The candidate must be highly collaborative, bring a structured approach to client engagement and documentation, employ moderation and facilitation skills, have a passion for payments, and have an ability to communicate complex information to both technical and non-technical audiences. The role will require leading complex technical discussions and will span multiple teams, projects, geographic locations, and time zones. The role requires a unique combination of product expertise, problem solving ability, flexibility with rapid changes, intellectual curiosity, and strong attention to detail. Visa is seeking an experienced payments professional with a strong track record in product and project management. This client experience‑focused role blends technology architecture expertise with client‑facing relationship management. The environment is fast‑paced and agile, requiring a proactive individual who excels at partnering with internal and external stakeholders to achieve shared objectives. Responsibilities include: • Execute multi‑year ecosystem growth plans, spanning enablement, acceptance, performance, compliance, and revenue outcomes. • Support activation of cross‑border payment corridors, ensuring market readiness, regulatory alignment, and seamless technical integration. • Monitor and manage ecosystem readiness and performance, including approval rates, fraud and risk metrics, data integrity, and overall operational health. • Lead issuer acceptance and performance optimization initiatives, including new and emerging Visa Direct use cases. • Oversee post‑launch monitoring and continuous improvement initiatives to ensure scalable, high‑quality ecosystem performance. • Drive data‑driven initiatives to improve acceptance quality, consistency, and operational resilience across endpoints. • Partner with global and regional product teams to ensure ecosystem readiness for new capabilities, releases, and innovations. • Lead issuer and partner readiness across the full Visa Direct endpoint portfolio, ensuring consistent acceptance and operational execution. • Serve as a Visa Direct product ecosystem SME, guiding clients through technical, operational, and compliance requirements. • Collaborate with cross-functional business, product, technology, client services & other teams to drive ecosystem readiness and high approval rates for Visa Direct products. • Work closely with the sales & account managers to plan and manage the client’s integration strategy, schedule, and deadlines. • Create presentations for internal approvals and external client facing discussions.This is a hybrid position. Expectation of days in office will be confirmed by your hiring manager.