Product Manager - Visa Crypto Product

Company Description

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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Job Description

Position Summary

Visa's Crypto Product Team is responsible for identifying new product opportunities that exist within the emerging crypto, stablecoin, and blockchain network landscape, creating strategies that define Visa's participation in the ecosystem, and delivering the capabilities required to capture those opportunities. We are looking for an experienced product manager who is passionate about designing the next generation of stablecoin based solutions to achieve Visa's goals. The Product Manager will focus on building and scaling existing and new stablecoin based solutions. This includes Visa settlement using Stablecoins and Visa’s Tokenized Asset Platform (VTAP) which enables banks to issue Stablecoins on public or private blockchains. You can expect to spend time working with clients to understand their stablecoin vision, translate that vision into new features for our product portfolio, and work with technology teams to manage backlog and requirements to get new features implemented. This role should have expertise in Agile product management, be able to speak fluidly with both technical and business staff and have a passion for crypto that keeps you motivated to find solutions and keep pushing when roadblocks appear.

Essential Functions

• Support the delivery of tailored stablecoin and blockchain network solutions for a wide variety of Visa’s partners including banks, fintechs, merchants, central banks, and blockchain network ecosystem participants
• Responsible for managing specific platform features and collaborating with key stakeholders across the strategy, risk, research, and engineering organizations
• Engage with clients to clearly understand & model customer needs and requirements to incorporate into Visa solutions
• Author product requirements documents that clearly convey what needs to be built to engineering, as well as criteria on how a requirement will be deemed to be complete and successful.
• Stay up to speed on latest developments in crypto industry, including devouring updates to regulations and legal thinking towards stablecoins, tokenized deposits, and CBDCs. Incorporate learnings and industry direction into adaptable products that can quickly pivot and meet market demand.
• Work closely with the extended Crypto business team to scale emerging crypto product lines from initial proof of concept through go-to-market execution that spans pricing, strategy, deal structuring, and client support
• Build strong internal relationships with business partners—including the product, legal, risk, and engineering teams
  
  

This is a hybrid position. Expectation of days in office will be confirmed by your hiring manager.

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications

• 5 or more years of relevant work experience with a Bachelors Degree or at least 2 years of work experience with an Advanced degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD) or 0 years of work experience with a PhD

Preferred Qualifications

• 6 or more years of work experience with a Bachelors Degree or 4 or more years of relevant experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD) or up to 3 years of relevant experience with a PhD
• Experience in digital product management
• Possess significant functional knowledge of the cryptocurrency ecosystem and players involved, including in-depth knowledge around permissionless blockchain technology as well as a deep understanding of existing retail payment solutions
• Good understanding of financial & payment systems concepts such as banking, fractional reserves, cross-border payments, payment authorization, clearing & settlement.
• Passionate about payments, stablecoins, and cryptocurrency and driven by opportunities to scale new products and businesses
• Demonstrated problem solving skills and creativity to find new opportunities and anticipate how stablecoins could impact payments.
• Advanced communication skills with the ability to influence across all levels of an organization
• Ability to travel as needed
• Familiarity with Jira Align and Jira
• Familiarity writing epics and user stories in Agile methodology.
• Ability to take a complex use case and break down into component requirements (requirements decomposition)
• Experience facilitating requirements from clients during workshops.
• Experience with process mapping and documentation (BPMN, UML, etc.)
• Ability to lead Agile pod towards execution of roadmap items to include initial estimation of use case and requirements, documentation of user stories into Jira, clarification of requirements working with devs, and tracking of timelines and completion of story points towards overall release goals.
• Ability to write test cases, perform user acceptance testing, and confirm business requirements are met.
• Ability to support meetings in multiple time zones and have a flexible schedule to support emerging opportunities and night-time meetings 1-2 days a week.
• Ability to create compelling presentations, consulting experience, and or sales pitch deck experience.
• • Ability to liaison between product team, engineering, business, and research teams and bridge the gap in speaking to a variety of stakeholders, both technical and non-technical
• • Familiarity with API testing tools like Postman or similar
• • Familiarity with release management practices and maintaining documentation relating to all product releases.

Additional Information

Work Hours: Varies upon the needs of the department.

Travel Requirements: This position requires travel 5-10% 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 138,500.00 to 200,700.00 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.