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Visa

Runs a global network for digital payments

Senior Manager - Sales Engineering

Full-TimeUpdated on 10/15/2026Deadline 10/16/26
No salary listed
Expert
Bachelor's, Master's
San José Province, San José, Costa Rica
HybridAt least three days in the office are required.
Solution EngineeringPre-Sales Solution Engineering

About the job

Requirements
  • At least 8 years of relevant work experience with a Bachelor’s degree, at least 5 years with an advanced degree (such as a Master’s, MBA, JD, or MD), or 2 years with a PhD.
  • A Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Information Security, Engineering, or a related field.
  • At least 10 years of experience in presales, fraud strategy, or technical consulting within fraud prevention, payments, or financial services.
  • Direct experience working with or integrating Visa Protect solutions, such as Visa Risk Manager, Visa Advanced Authorization, Decision Manager, or Visa Secure.
  • Hands-on experience with Featurespace’s ARIC Risk Hub or similar machine-learning-based fraud platforms.
  • Deep knowledge of adaptive behavioral analytics and supervised or unsupervised machine-learning models.
  • Deep knowledge of transaction monitoring, alerting, scoring, and model tuning.
  • Deep knowledge of payment ecosystem fraud detection across card issuance, acquiring, gateways, and wallets.
  • Deep knowledge of decision orchestration and fraud policy design.
  • Technical familiarity with APIs, scripting, data mapping, and solution architecture.
Responsibilities
  • Serve as the technical expert throughout the presales lifecycle, working with prospects to position Risk and Identity solutions, including Featurespace’s adaptive behavioral analytics alongside or integrated with Visa Protect and other third-party fraud solutions.
  • Understand and articulate the value of ARIC Risk Hub and Visa Protect, including Visa Advanced Authorization, Risk Manager, and Visa Secure, in addressing fraud challenges across the payment lifecycle.
  • Advise clients on combining Featurespace machine-learning models with Visa network-based intelligence and decisioning to enhance fraud detection and reduce false positives.
  • Provide technical sales support throughout the sales process, including responding to requests for proposals, creating technical documentation, and addressing inquiries.
  • Conduct detailed, tailored product demonstrations for prospective clients, showcasing Issuing Risk and Identity solutions.
  • Maintain awareness of evolving fraud vectors, regulatory frameworks such as PSD2, EMV 3-D Secure, and anti-money laundering, and industry trends affecting digital payments and financial crime.
  • Translate client requirements into actionable technical solutions, ensuring Risk and Identity products meet or exceed expectations.
  • Collaborate during product implementation to ensure successful go-live within the designated timeline.
Desired Qualifications
  • At least 9 years of relevant work experience with a Bachelor’s degree, at least 7 years with an advanced degree, or at least 3 years with a PhD.
  • Exposure to real-time payment schemes and cross-border fraud challenges.
  • Experience delivering solutions within global banks, fintech companies, processors, or payment service providers using Visa and third-party fraud platforms.
  • Knowledge of Strong Customer Authentication, tokenization, and payment security standards.

About the company

Visa runs a global payment network that connects banks, merchants and consumers so card purchases and money transfers move between financial institutions. Its VisaNet system handles authorization, clearing and settlement, linking the bank behind a buyer's card with the bank that accepts a merchant's payment. The company earns fees from payment activity, transaction processing and international transactions, and sells fraud prevention tools, payment software and consulting services to businesses. Banks and other partners issue Visa branded cards and use its technology to build their own payment products. Visa traces its roots to a Bank of America card program launched in 1958 and is headquartered in San Francisco.

Company Size

10,001+

Company Stage

N/A

Total Funding

$9.6M

Headquarters

San Francisco, California

Founded

1958

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What believers are saying

  • Visa demand keeps growing: July 2026 results showed quarterly revenue up 14% to $11.6 billion.
  • Advisory staff get structured training: Visa University has over 50 learning modules for its consulting and analytics teams.
  • Visa is capturing stablecoin activity: September 2026 settlement volume exceeded a $20 billion annualized run rate.

What critics are saying

  • Visa must pay partners more: July 2026 results showed client incentives up 18%, faster than revenue.
  • Visa faces pressure on its debit contracts: the Justice Department seeks restrictions on alleged anticompetitive practices.
  • Technology and product jobs face cuts: Visa announced about 2,600 planned layoffs in July 2026.

What makes Visa unique

  • Visa reaches everyday checkout at scale: its cards are accepted at over 175 million merchant locations.
  • Visa avoids consumer lending exposure: it bears no cardholder credit risk.
  • Visa Direct extends beyond cards: it reaches approximately 12 billion bank account, wallet and card endpoints.

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