Job Description
Visa is seeking an experienced Director to join our Visa Network Defense team. The Director will be responsible for the global rollout of the Visa Network Defense within the Payment Systems Intelligence department. The successful candidate will develop a comprehensive strategy for the primary components and their integration into the overarching program. This role sits in the Payments Ecosystem Risk and Control Organization.
Key Responsibilities:
- Develop and implement a strategic plan for Visa Network Defense, ensuring alignment with the Payment Systems Intelligence department’s goals.
- Create and manage detailed roadmaps and program management plans to ensure timely and effective rollout.
- Lead and manage a team of professionals, providing guidance and support to achieve program objectives.
- Drive the program’s development, continuously enhancing and adding features and capabilities to meet evolving needs.
- Collaborate with various cross-functional teams across the organization to ensure cohesive and seamless integration of the Visa Network Defense.
- Stay current with changes and trends in the payments space, particularly regarding payment systems, fraud prevention, and cyber trends.
- Strong understanding of the payments process, potential attack vectors, network security, digital forensics, and security operations.
- Experienced in understanding and defining requirements to build analytics and automation to enable the program to continue to scale.
- Serve as a Global Risk Subject Matter subject matter expert on various fraud schemes, payments, and technical expertise with payment response codes in the authorization process.
- Define functional and operational metrics to show both KPIs and KRIs for the program.
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.
Qualifications
Basic Qualifications
- 10 or more years of work experience with a Bachelor’s Degree or at least 8 years of work experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters/ MBA/JD/MD) or at least 3 years of work experience with a PhD
Preferred Qualifications
- 12 or more years of work experience with a Bachelor’s Degree or 8-10 years of experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD) or 6+ years of work experience with a PhD
- Proven experience in a leadership role within the payments systems or cybersecurity industry.
- Strong understanding of payment systems, fraud prevention methods, intelligence, analytics.
- Demonstrated experience in developing and executing strategic plans, roadmaps, and business cases.
- Excellent program management skills, with the ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously.
- Experience with analytics tools, Splunk, SQL, and python.
- Strong leadership and team management skills, with a focus on fostering collaboration and innovation.
- Exceptional communication (verbal and written) and interpersonal skills, with the ability to work effectively with cross-functional teams.
- Ability to stay abreast of industry trends and incorporate them into strategic planning and program development.
- Background in intelligence, intelligence gathering, and leveraging intelligence in analytics.
- Advanced degree
- Experience with global program rollouts and management.
- Knowledge of upcoming changes and trends in the payments space.