Government Engagement Summer Internship

Visa is a world leader in digital payments, facilitating more than 215 billion payments transactions between consumers, merchants, financial institutions, and government entities across 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.

When you join Visa, you join a culture of purpose and belonging – where your growth is priority, your identity is embraced, and the work you do matters. We believe that economies that include everyone everywhere, uplift everyone everywhere. Your work will have a direct impact on billions of people around the world – helping unlock financial access to enable the future of money movement.

Join Visa: A Network Working for Everyone.

Our Summer Internship is an 11-week programme providing you the opportunity to experience all that Visa has to offer alongside completing challenging work, building your skillset, and networking with fellow interns and Visa employees. Throughout the internship you will work on BAU work within your team, be given an end-to-end project to complete and take part in a variety of trainings to increase your learning. You will also get the opportunity to take part in a global social impact case challenge as well as hearing from senior leaders through our Visa Executive Speaker Series. 

The internship is just the beginning of what we hope will be a lasting career at Visa! If you are successful throughout your internship, you could even secure a graduate role with us when you finish university. 

Visa’s Europe Government Engagement team is focused on developing Visa's position on key policy issues facing the digital payments sector and engaging directly with policymakers. 
The team is responsible for establishing Visa as a thought leader on key issues, maintaining critical external relationships and proactively aligning business initiatives with policy trends and public policy objectives. The team monitors policy developments in the UK, Ireland and across Europe, and through sound research and analysis, develops content that helps shape the policy discourse. The team also provides advice to a number of internal stakeholder groups on both mature and emerging payments policy issues. 

Day-to-Day Responsibilities 

• We are looking for a self-starting intern to facilitate more agile ways of working. 

• You will be relied upon as a trusted resource for the team to undertake research, analyse policy, review documents, distil information into key insights and effectively communicate key findings. 

• You will have a good grasp of politics and/or economics and ideally a keen interest in industry developments pertaining to FinTech, payments and wider financial services. 

Visa are a talented team of 26,000 individuals with unique backgrounds, perspectives and experiences. Our qualifications to apply can be noted below: 

• Permanent right to work in the country you are applying to (please make sure this is clear from your CV) 

• Penultimate year of university, graduating in 2026 (please make sure this is clear from your CV) 

• Ability to work full time over the summer of 2025 (June/July-Aug/Sept) 

• Proactive, with experience of being a self-starter and having the willingness to learn 

• Enjoys agile working 

• Evidence of excellent communication skills 

• Personal presence and ability to clearly communicate compelling messages to senior executives and external business partners 

• Innovative and curious, positive and proactive – always looking for ways to do things better 

• Fluent in English 

Please submit your application in English. 

Visa will only consider candidates who have the legal right to work in the job’s location and will not provide sponsorship for this role.

Visa will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with EEOC guidelines and applicable local law.