Senior Director, Strategy & Analytics

Visa is a world leader in payments technology, facilitating transactions between consumers, merchants, financial institutions and government entities across more than 200 countries and territories, dedicated to uplifting everyone, everywhere by being the best way to pay and be paid.

At Visa, you'll have the opportunity to create impact at scale - tackling meaningful challenges, growing your skills and seeing your contributions impact lives around the world.

Join Visa and do work that matters - to you, to your community, and to the world. Progress starts with you.

Visa will accept applications for this role until at least 11-03-2026

Visa Consulting and Analytics (VCA) partners with Visa's clients to solve their most important strategic challenges and drive meaningful business results. We bring together strategy consulting, analytics, paymentsexpertise, and deep industry insight to help financial institutions and merchants grow, compete, and innovate in a rapidly evolving payments landscape.

The North America Consulting Practice within VCA works closely with U.S. issuing banks to addressenterpriselevelpriorities-ranging from growth and profitability to customer engagement, digital payments, and portfolio strategy. Our work sits at the intersection of strategy and execution, helping clients turn insight into action.

We are looking for aSenior Director to join ourNA VCA team and will play a leadership role on a team of experienced strategic consulting professionals while focusing on Visa's issuing relationships. This role is ideal for a strategic leader who enjoys solving ambiguous problems, influencing senior stakeholders, and shapinghighimpactwork for marquee clients. You will act as a trusted advisor to clients, a strategic partner to Visa account teams, and a leader within the VCA practice.

• Continuously review market and competitive landscape, identifying opportunities and strategies that will position Visa as the market leader.
• Strong focus on execution and deliverables. Proven record of exceeding goals.
• Collaborate with Visa account and regional leaders toidentifyopportunities where VCA can add strategic value.
• Contribute to client pursuits by shaping strategic narratives, creatingexecutivelevelpresentations, and developing Statements of Work (SOWs).
• Help position Visa as alongterm, strategic partner-not just a payments provider.
• Mastery of CRM systems/tools to manage territory and pipeline, including AI-enabled tools.
• Influence the client's vision for the future of electronic payments, consistent with Visa's strategies.

• Identify strategic opportunities through client engagement. Develop a strong understanding of the segment and customer's business needs and deliver value to our Financial Institutions and their clients / members.
• Serve as a thought partner to U.S. financial institutions, helping themidentify, prioritize, and execute strategies that drive sustainable growth and profitability.
• Lead multiple consulting engagements from strategy definition through recommendations, ensuring insights are clear, actionable, and tailored to executive audiences.
• Develop compelling strategic frameworks and points of view that address clients' most critical business questions.

• Own client engagements by setting direction, defining scope, managing timelines, and guiding teams to deliverhighqualityoutcomes.
• Partner closely with data science, design, research, implementation, risk, innovation, and product teams to bring the full power of Visa to each engagement.
• Support clients with partner teams across strategic, operational, and implementation engagements.