Sr. Product Manager, VISA Acceptance Solutions

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

About the Role

Visa is seeking a Senior Product Manager to lead the evolution of our mission-critical API Gateway that powers the Visa Acceptance Platform – a global system supporting 160+ countries and 350+ processor connections with 99.999% availability for authorization flows.

As we scale our platform to support a growing portfolio of products across Visa’s Acceptance ecosystem, the API Gateway will be a key enabler for reliability, flexibility, and speed to market.

This is a high-impact, strategic role within Visa’s Global Product organization.

What You’ll Do

• Own the roadmap for the API Gateway, aligning it with product needs across the Visa Acceptance Platform.

• Collaborate cross-functionally with product leads, engineering, architecture, and global market teams to scale API capabilities.

• Ensure enterprise-grade reliability, security, and performance, meeting the demands of mission-critical authorization flows.

• Define and evolve platform APIs and patterns to support both internal and external product integration.

• Drive adoption of the gateway across new and existing Visa Acceptance products.

• Partner with the Platform Reliability and SRE teams to uphold SLAs and platform standards.

• Provide product leadership in stakeholder forums and technical working groups.

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

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications

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

• 9 or more years of relevant work experience with a Bachelor Degree or 7 or more relevant years of experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD) or 3 or more years of experience with a PhD
• 6–10 years of product management experience with a focus on API platforms, gateways, or large-scale backend infrastructure.
• Proven experience managing enterprise-scale platforms with strict availability and latency requirements.
• Deep understanding of API design, authentication models, rate limiting, and API observability.
• Comfortable working with global teams, balancing technical depth with stakeholder alignment.
• Prior experience with payments, fintech, or financial infrastructure is a strong plus.
• Clear communicator who can align business and technical teams around a shared vision

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 159,100.00 to 212,900.00 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.