Vice President, Featurespace - Risk & Identity Solutions; RaIS Engineering

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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The Value‑Added Services Product Development (VAS PD) team drives the diversification of our revenue with products that differentiate our network and deliver valuable solutions across other rails. The team’s strategy is to increase total merchant value by developing solutions that address complex and emerging merchant and acquirer needs.

The Vice President of Featurespace will lead the teams that build innovative, AI‑driven risk and fraud management solutions for issuers and merchants. This role will be responsible for driving the strategy, planning and execution of technology‑related initiatives that support our business goals, with a focus on products including ARIC HUB and Integrated Risk Platform.

• Develop, implement and oversee strategic plans for the Featurespace technology team, ensuring alignment with the overall business objectives.
• Oversee the design, development and deployment of cutting‑edge payment risk and fraud management systems, ensuring they are secure, efficient and scalable.
• Continually assess the effectiveness of the existing systems and processes, making improvements or changes where necessary.
• Collaborate with the Product teams to identify opportunities for new products and enhancements of existing products to meet our customers’ requirements and provide Visa with a competitive edge.
• Lead and manage a high‑performing technology team, fostering a culture of innovation and excellence. This includes hiring, training, mentoring and performance management.
• Stay abreast of the latest technologies, trends and best practices in payment authentication and identity management, integrating them into the company’s strategies and operations where beneficial.
• Understand the cost of delivery and effectively estimate project costs for large, complex cross‑functional projects.
• Drive development of projects and lead teams across multiple geographical locations.
• Provide leadership to teams across risk domains, establish high standards and best engineering practices.
• Drive adoption and innovation of emerging technologies and industry trends.
• Demonstrate thought leadership through presentations and teaching across Visa. Represent Visa as a technical advisor or spokesperson on external activities, particularly client engagement.
• Champion a culture of innovation, in an environment that requires high levels of scalability, security and reliability. Understanding and use of GenAI technologies is a must.

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

• 12 or more years of work experience with a Bachelor’s Degree or at least 10 years of experience with an Advanced degree (e.g. Masters/ MBA/JD/MD) or at least 8 years of work experience with a PhD

• 15 or more years of experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD, PhD)
• Recent coding experience: the candidate must be “hands‑on” with the ability to review code and engage with technical details directly.
• Experience with building AI‑powered decisioning solutions.
• Experience with developing Risk products is a plus.
• Experience leading large, global technology teams as well as a broad software engineering and Generative AI leadership background.
• Experience working in Agile framework and comfortable working in a matrixed organization.
• Strong commercial acumen to forecast business trends and translate into agile technology solutions.
• Proven track record of delivering scalable, secure and high‑quality mobile and web…