Director, Corporate Strategy

Director, Corporate Strategy

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.

Make an impact with a purpose-driven industry leader. Join us today and experience Life at Visa.

Job Description

The Corporate Strategy team tackles some of Visa's toughest questions to chart our long-term strategy. Our Corporate Strategy group is composed of six distinct teams : a Global Strategy team - driving strategy work across Visa's businesses, geographies, and functions, and five regional teams - driving strategy work in each of Visa's five geographic regions. The Director role is on the Global Corporate Strategy team.

We are an apprenticeship-based culture, rigorously investing in the cultivation of exceptional talent. In this role, you will embark on a structured two-year experience that serves as the foundation for a lasting career at Visa. The two-year experience is designed for you to receive regular coaching, develop a board network across Visa, and tackle the most difficult and pressing strategic and operational topics at Visa. After two years, you will continue to grow on the strategy team or move to a broader business area at Visa.

The Director : Global Corporate Strategy will :

• Lead major strategic projects, developing unique and creative solutions that strengthen Visa Inc.'s corporate strategy
• Scope and structure projects and workstreams for the corporate strategy team and across functions and regions. This includes assigning individual workstreams, setting deadlines, creating roles and responsibilities, owning readouts, and more
• Lead team members to develop rigorous, fact-based, quantitative analyses to support recommendations. Ensure strategic and financial soundness of recommendations
• Communicate recommendations to senior management, other executive, functional, or regional staff in a clear, concise, and impactful way
• Lead and participate in regular strategy and payment-focused trainings. Serve as a coach / mentor to more junior team members

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

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. Experience in management consulting, corporate strategy, investment banking or equivalent. Experience in and / or significant exposure to the payments industry not required, but a plus. Ability to independently lead and manage several projects with multiple workstreams, with proven leadership success over a wide variety of functional business problems. Superior analytical and problem-solving skills, with demonstrated intellectual and analytical rigor, attention to detail and ability to structure and analyze sophisticated financial modeling. Personal presence and ability to clearly communicate compelling messages to senior stakeholders and external business partners.