Vice President, Enterprise Transformation

Company Description

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.

Job Description

The VP will be a key member in Visa's Enterprise Transformation Office (ETO), which is responsible for driving meaningful and sustainable change across the many segments of Visa's business. As a strategist, the individual will lead the execution of - across functions and geographies - initiatives aligned to executive priorities. Broad topics may include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Leading strategy development work streams that drive step-change improvement in accountability

• Addressing enterprise-wide organizational improvements to unlock revenue or capacity

• Identifying areas of opportunity to improve the client experience and accelerate time-to-market

What a VP of Transformation does at Visa

The VP of Transformation is a key member of ETO leadership team and plays a critical role in leading and overseeing initiatives that drive large‑scale change, improve organizational efficiency, and improve the client experience. These are often complex, cross‑functional engagements that impact multiple geographies and stakeholders.

The role is highly visible and will have a broad reach into a variety of teams across functions. This leader must have the ability to lead key business transformation programs and key cross‑functional initiatives. He or she must stay in front of innovation trends in strategy and transformation and payments and be able to develop an independent point of view on topics in the face of uncertainty and imperfect information.

Best‑suited candidates will be persuasive, clear communicators with high emotional intelligence as well as analytical, self‑motivated, and able to collaborate well with others from a diversity of backgrounds. This position requires the ability to communicate, partner with and generate support for recommendation among stakeholders to quickly drive to those recommendations and lead a team. Further, this position requires the ability to apply strong analytical frameworks and critical thinking skills to:

• Partner with ETO leadership to help identify, shape, and prioritize key transformation initiatives and change management that support Visa revenue ambitions;

• Develop and execute Enterprise transformation strategy that supports our growth activities, organisational efficiency, and cross‑functional improvements;

• Grow and lead a high‑performing team, providing mentorship, guidance, and support to ensure the team's success.

• Structure and solve business problems, collaborating and coordinating with a range of internal stakeholders to make recommendations on a wide range of cross‑functional improvements;

• Build strong relationships with cross‑functional teams. Act as trusted partner and advisor to senior stakeholders during and beyond strategic project engagement;

• Collaborate with cross‑functional teams to execute business cases, project plans, and implementation roadmaps for key initiatives;

• Lead the development of hypotheses and data collection for wholesale organisational improvement, operational efficiency, cost savings (or avoidance), and most importantly, revenue growth;

• Manage the day‑to‑day project and team activities to meet project goals and timelines;

• Ensure that all initiatives are aligned with the Visa's overall strategy, goals, and values;

• Evaluate the effectiveness of transformational initiatives, develop clear and concise executive level communications;

• Present recommendations to senior management, other executive, functional, or regional staff and management in a clear, concise, and persuasively.

The position will be based in Austin, TX or…