Senior Vice President, Head of Product Development, Commercial and Money Movement Services

About Us
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

Visa is seeking a senior technology executive to serve as Senior Vice President, Platform and Product Development for Commercial and Money Movement Solutions (CMS).

CMS is a core pillar of Visa’s long term growth strategy, powering enterprise grade money movement across businesses, governments, platforms, and ecosystems worldwide. By 2030, CMS is expected to represent a substantial share of Visa’s enterprise revenue and play a central role in how money, data, and trust move through the global economy.

This role is responsible for shaping and stewarding technology platforms and ecosystem architecture that enable Visa’s commercial and multi-rail money movement capabilities at global scale, under regulation, and with trust as a defining differentiator. The SVP will lead a highly experienced global organization of ~2,500 engineers and operate at the intersection of technology strategy, platform architecture, productivity, business growth, and regulatory responsibility.

CMS platforms operate as some of the world’s largest enterprise SaaS systems, supporting real-time, transaction intensive workloads at massive scale. These platforms must be designed to operate in highly restrictive, highly secure environments, where availability, resilience, and integrity are foundational, never optional.

What You Will Do

Architect Enterprise-Scale Money Movement Platforms

• Define and evolve CMS as a composable, API driven platform ecosystem, supporting B2B, B2B2C, government, and embedded money movement use cases.
• Architect CMS platforms as a core component of Visa’s enterprise technology ecosystem, aligned with cross-segment integration across Consumer Payments, CMS, and Value Added Services.
• Ensure CMS platforms integrate seamlessly with clients, partners, developers, and ecosystem participants, reducing time-to-value for adoption and onboarding.

Shape Long-Term Technology and Platform Strategy

• Provide technical vision and multi-year roadmap aligned with Visa’s corporate and technology strategy.
• Translate business priorities into scalable platform architecture and execution plans, ensuring alignment across regions and product lines.
• Exercise enterprise aware judgment in prioritization, resource allocation, and investment trade-offs, directing focus to the highest-impact capabilities.

Embed AI as a Platform and Productivity Multiplier

• Ensure AI is embedded by design across CMS platforms to drive developer productivity, automation, and intelligent decisioning.
• Leverage AI-enabled development practices to improve speed, quality, and operational efficiency across the SDLC.

Drive Engineering at Scale and Operational Excellence

• Lead a global team of ~2,500 engineers responsible for both platform innovation and ongoing operation of mission-critical applications.
• Oversee the delivery of a high volume release pipeline, including major platform releases that impact global clients and partners.
• Maintain strong operational and fiscal discipline, managing scope, schedule, and budgets for large-scale engineering portfolios.

Design for Trust, Security, and Regulation at Global Scale

• Provide technical leadership in building secure, compliant platforms that meet Visa’s cybersecurity, regulatory, and risk requirements.
• Champion an “always-on” engineering mindset, designing systems where downtime is not an acceptable trade-off and reliability expectations approach continuous availability standards.
• Partner closely with Cybersecurity and Operations & Infrastructure teams to ensure a seamless model across coding, deployment, and production operations.
• Represent CMS platform strategy and risk posture in enterprise-level governance, investment, and regulatory discussions.

Partner Across Business and Drive Client-Centric Delivery

• Work closely with Product, Markets, and regional teams to define feature sets and technical roadmaps aligned to business strategy across core platforms, new payment flows, and value-added services.
• Lead agile development teams in partnership with clients, including issuers, acquirers, processors, and service providers, to commercialize new and underutilized capabilities.
• Define and coordinate client onboarding, change management, and support strategies to ensure successful adoption and scale.

Lead and Develop Global Technology Organization

• Lead and evolve a globally distributed organization across North America, Europe, and Asia.
• Build a leadership bench capable of stewarding platforms with decade long lifespans and operating independently at scale.
• Operate as a peer leader within Visa Technology, influencing outcomes beyond direct reporting lines through enterprise collaboration and leadership.

What You Bring

Experience and Background

• Senior leadership experience building and operating large-scale, enterprise SaaS platforms supporting real-time, transaction-intensive workloads.
• Proven experience operating in highly regulated, highly secure, mission-critical environments, where compliance and cyber posture directly shape architecture and delivery.
• Experience leading large, global engineering organizations and managing complex, multi-region operating models.
• Track record of making irreversible technology and architecture decisions with long-term business impact.
• Demonstrated ability to balance innovation, reliability, and cost discipline at scale.

Technical and Strategic Fluency

• Deep understanding of distributed systems, API-driven platforms, cloud-native architectures, and data-driven services.
• Strong grounding in modern engineering practices, including CI/CD, DevOps, and large-scale platform modernization.
• Ability to translate technical decisions into business, risk, and financial outcomes.

Leadership & Judgment

• Demonstrates alignment to Visa Leadership Principles, including integrity, accountability, collaboration, innovation, excellence, and sound judgment.
• Leads with confidence and humility, prioritizing long-term platform and company success.
• Strong executive presence with the ability to influence senior stakeholders across business, product, and technology.
• High capacity to operate in ambiguous, high-stakes environments while maintaining clarity of direction.

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications:

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

Preferred Qualifications:

• 18 or more years of experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD, PhD).

U.S. Applicants Only

Work Hours

Varies upon the needs of the department.

Travel Requirements

This position requires travel 5-10% 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