Sr. Director, Pricing

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.

You will join the product pricing strategy team responsible for product monetization and pricing strategy for Visa's value-added products and services (VAS). It is a customer centric nimble team that strives to provide Visa a competitive edge and enable pricing to be leveraged as a strategic lever for growth.

VAS has high growth aspirations to empower the next chapter of growth for Visa. The senior director will play a key role in accelerating this growth. He/she will act as a mentor to junior team members, supporting their project and analysis work and will report to the VP, VAS Pricing Strategy.

In this role, you will work closely with global product, regional solution, commercial operations and sales teams to define monetization and pricing/packaging strategy for the current and future products and services. You must be comfortable with analyzing large amounts of product data, conducting quantitative and qualitative market and competitive research, and helping influence and shape product and business strategy.

Responsibilities

• Build strong understanding of our products' value proposition relative to competition and develop pricing and packaging using value-based pricing approach.
• Be market informed. Visa has a global footprint. Competition, market dynamics and commercial constructs varyby market. He/She is expected to develop understanding of the GTM model for the key markets and develop pricing derived from the local market understanding and competitive landscape.
• Build business cases for new monetization and packaging strategies and lead cross-functional effort to drive the initiatives to completion.
• Independently create executive ready presentations. Influence senior executives across multiple teams to gain alignment on recommendations.
• Continuously strive to simplify pricing constructs to simplify and accelerate sales motion.
• Define pricing KPIs and measure the effectiveness of pricing changes to enable continuous improvement
• Partner with sales operations team to execute on the pricing related updates.

Key Experience

• Prior experience in corporate strategy, management consulting, product strategy or Go-To-Market strategy. Pricing strategy and payment experience preferred but not required.
• Experience working in a global matrix organization with the ability to navigate complex structures and empower decision-making locally.
• Experience supporting a B2B selling environment.
• Demonstrated ability to make timely decisions, balancing analysis with decisiveness.

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

Basic Qualifications:

• 12 or more years of work experience with a Bachelor's Degree or at least 10 years of work experience with an Advanced degree (e.g. Masters/MBA /JD/MD), or a minimum of 5 years of work experience with a PhD

Preferred Qualifications:

• 15 or more years of experience with a Bachelor's Degree or 12 years of experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, or MD), PhD with 9+ years of experience
• Experience leading cross-functional initiatives and facilitating collaboration across Product, Sales, Marketing, and Strategy organizations
• Pragmatic mindset with intense focus on execution against client needs, articulation of value proposition and concrete market facing focus
• Financial acumen-ability to utilize sophisticated financial analyses to evaluate business opportunities and make strategic choices
• Highly analytical and comfortable working with complex data sets. Prior experience with business intelligence tools such as Tableau.
• Must be results-oriented, and able to handle multiple urgent tasks and effectively deal with ambiguity
• Very comfortable receiving and giving feedback in a constructive manner.

Work Hours: Varies upon the needs of the department.

Travel Requirements: This position requires travel5-10% of the time.

Mental/Physical Requirements: This position will be performed in an office setting. The position will require the incumbent to sit and stand at a desk, communicate in person and by telephone, frequently operate standard office equipment, such as telephones and computers.

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.

Visa will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with applicable local law, including the requirements of Article 49 of the San Francisco Police Code.

U.S. APPLICANTS ONLY: The estimated salary range for a new hire into this position is 180,000.00 to 261,000.00 USD per year, which may include potential sales incentive payments (if applicable). Salary may vary depending on job-related factors which may include knowledge, skills, experience, and location. In addition, this position may be eligible for bonus and equity. Visa has a comprehensive benefits package for which this position may be eligible that includes Medical, Dental, Vision, 401 (k), FSA/HSA, Life Insurance, Paid Time Off, and Wellness Program.