Product Manager, Innovation

Job description

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 Description Visa is seeking a dynamic and results-driven Product Manager to drive Visa’s strategic initiatives focused on money movement within Visa Direct Global Product. This role drives execution of innovation backlog across the product lifecycle, from discovery and experimentation through delivery, launch, and ongoing optimization. You will collaborate closely with regional teams, business partners, and global product and engineering teams to understand local payment ecosystems and deliver scalable, secure, and high-performing money movement solutions. You are accountable not only for delivery, but for defining the right problems to solve, exercising sound product judgment, and owning post‑launch outcomes. Success in this role requires strong ownership, the ability to make informed tradeoffs, and confidence influencing senior stakeholders across regions to drive meaningful customer and business impact. Key Responsibilities: Product Management & Innovation Identify and deliver opportunities to enhance money movement solutions, reducing cost, friction, and time to value. Lead internal stakeholder discovery to validate problems, shape priorities, and inform innovation strategy. Translate opportunities into product initiatives, epics, and features supported by business cases, market insights, and regional alignment. Own the product lifecycle from discovery and experimentation through to delivery, launch, and continuous optimization. Stay informed on emerging trends in payments, AI, and related technologies to identify opportunities aligned with strategic priorities. Manage and prioritize the product backlog aligned with business strategy, customer outcomes, and measurable results. Use data, experimentation, proofs of concept, and performance metrics to evaluate viability and inform go/no‑go decisions. Track success metrics across performance, efficiency, adoption, cost, and reduction of client and end‑user friction. Partner closely with engineering to deliver secure, scalable, and high‑quality solutions. Work cross functionally with commercial, solutioning, risk, legal, compliance, and operations teams to ensure timely and responsible delivery. Agility, Adaptability & Delivery Apply agile methodologies to guide product development, iteration, and continuous improvement. Leverage data, automation, and emerging technologies, including AI where appropriate, to improve decision‑making, scalability, and customer experience. Demonstrate strong ownership, encourage creative problem solving, and drive initiatives to completion in a changing environment. Raise execution quality by continually improving how the team plans, executes, and delivers the product backlog. This is a hybrid position. Expectation of days in the office will be confirmed by your Hiring Manager. Qualifications Preferred Qualifications: Bachelor’s degree in engineering, Business, Economics, or related field. MS or MBA is a plus. 6+ years of experience in Product Management within payments, fintech, or digital financial services. Strong understanding of the money movement ecosystem (P2P, P2B, B2B, B2P); Visa Direct experience is a plus. Proven ability to combine data and judgement to inform decisions, resolve trade‑offs, and measure outcomes. Data-driven mindset with the ability to use insights to inform decisions and measure outcomes. Excellent spoken and written communication skills. 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.