Senior Director, Product Engineering

The Senior Director, Product Engineering at Visa leads delivery outcomes for the Spend Clarity Group, a global SaaS product for commercial and virtual cards. This role involves strategic and operational leadership, driving product engineering and delivery excellence across cross-functional teams of approximately 50 people. Key responsibilities include balancing technological innovation with delivery, integrating AI to enhance product capabilities, ensuring alignment with Visa's global strategy, and fostering talent development within engineering teams.

Must Have

• Accountable for delivery outcomes across a portfolio of multiple value streams
• Lead cross-functional teams driving product engineering and delivery excellence
• Balance driving technological innovation with delivery excellence
• Strong focus on rapid integration of AI to enhance product capabilities
• Ensure all initiatives align with Visa's global technology strategy and regulatory requirements
• Make strategic decisions based on analysis and available resources
• Socialize and promote direct strategic direction
• Translate priorities into operational reality
• Collaborate with peers and external partners for alignment
• Navigate complex matrices within Visa's global organization
• Ensure alignment between people, processes, and strategies
• Build a cohesive, high-quality, outcome-focused team
• Drive modern delivery practices, embed AI and automation into engineering practices
• Build strong partnerships between Product, Cyber Security, Infrastructure, and Engineering groups
• Prioritize and deliver work predictably with appropriate metrics
• Set and promote the strategic direction for Product Engineering
• Ensure alignment with overall technology and product strategies
• Balance regulatory compliance and delivery agility
• Develop AI literacy within the engineering teams
• Champion a supportive work environment
• Attract, develop, and retain top talent
• 10 or more years of work experience with a Bachelor’s Degree
• 8+ years in technology leadership roles
• AI advocacy and foundations in Software Development Environments
• Deep technical foundations, with experience in hands-on software engineering roles
• Experience with partner engagement, including executive level
• Comfortable influencing and supporting organizational change
• Experience with Cloud (IaaS/SaaS) applications
• Experience in working in a regulated environment, where security and compliance is at the front-of-mind

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.

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

Job Description

Visa Spend Clarity is a global SaaS product centered around Visa Commercial and Virtual Cards. It complements a banks corporate card program for large corporates allowing for streamlined card program management expense management controls and virtual payment solutions from the desktop interface and Mobile App.

The Senior Director Product Engineering is accountable for the delivery outcomes across a portfolio of multiple value streams within the Spend Clarity Group. As a Senior Director within Visa this role will report to the VP Engineering for the Spend Clarity Group and will be a member of the Senior Leadership Team.

Being responsible for the Who will do the work How will we deliver it and When will it be delivered the role will lead cross functional teams driving product engineering and delivery excellence across the group. The remit typically leads a group of teams totaling around 50 people coming from an engineering background.

In close partnership with Product Management Platform and Architecture teams this role will balance driving technological innovation with delivery excellence. A strong focus on the rapid integration of AI to enhance product capabilities improve software quality and optimize throughput while ensuring all initiatives align with Visas global technology strategy and regulatory requirements.

Strategic and Operational Leadership:

• Make strategic decisions based on analysis and available resources
• Socialize and promote direct strategic direction
• Translate priorities into operational reality
• Alignment and Accountability
• Collaborate with peers and external partners for alignment
• Navigate complex matrices within Visas global organization
• Ensure alignment between people processes and strategies
• Build a cohesive high quality outcome focused team
• Delivery Excellence
• Drive modern delivery practices embed AI and automation into engineering practices to accelerate delivery and improve quality
• Build strong partnerships between Product Cyber Security Infrastructure and Engineering groups
• Prioritize and deliver work predictably with appropriate metrics
• Strategic Vision
• Set and promote the strategic direction for Product Engineering
• Ensure alignment with overall technology and product strategies both locally and with Visa globally
• Balance regulatory compliance and delivery agility
• Talent Development
• Develop AI literacy within the engineering teams fostering innovation through emerging technologies
• Champion a supportive work environment
• Attract develop and retain top talent

This is a hybrid position. Expectation of days in the 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
• For this role the key skills required are:
• 10+ years of experience in relevant technology environments
• 8+ years in technology leadership roles
• AI advocacy and foundations in Software Development Environments
• Deep technical foundations, with experience in hands-on software engineering roles
• Experience with partner engagement, including executive level
• Comfortable influencing and supporting organizational change
• Experience with Cloud (IaaS/SaaS) applications
• Experience in working in a regulated environment, where security and compliance is at the front-of-mind

Additional Information

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.