Director, Digital Sales

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’s newly built Digital Sales Hub in Atlanta, Georgia is seeking a dynamic and strategic sales leader to help shape the next chapter of Digital Sales in North America. This Director will lead a team of 10+ Digital Sales professionals responsible for managing approximately 50% of Visa’s North America Digital Sales client portfolio.

Digital Sales is at the forefront of Visa’s sales organization, helping deepen client relationships, scale commercial impact, and unlock new growth opportunities. By combining best-in-class sales technology, data-driven insights, and tailored client engagement strategies, the team delivers meaningful solutions that support Visa’s clients and accelerate business growth.

The Director, Digital Sales – North America will bring strategic thinking, disciplined sales execution, strong relationship-building skills, and exceptional people leadership to help build and mature the Digital Sales function across the regions.

Why You Should Apply

• Innovative environment: Join a forward-looking sales team that uses advanced technology, analytics, and data-driven insights to identify opportunities and deliver tailored client solutions.
• Career growth: Build your career at a global leader in payments, with opportunities to expand your leadership, commercial, and client strategy experience.
• Dynamic culture: Experience the energy, pace, and collaboration of a startup-style environment, backed by the scale, resources, and stability of a global company.

This is a full-time role based in Visa’s Atlanta office. If you are passionate about innovation, motivated to make a meaningful impact, and excited to help shape the future of Digital Sales at Visa, we invite you to apply.

Job Description and Responsibilities

The Director of Digital Sales will lead a team of Digital Sales Representatives responsible for driving client engagement, pipeline growth, and revenue across a broad segment of North America clients. This leader will establish the structure, operating rhythm, and sales discipline needed to deliver consistent, measurable impact.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead and develop a high-performing team of Digital Sales Representatives by providing clear direction, coaching, training, and actionable feedback that improves individual and team performance.
• Drive disciplined sales execution through rigorous territory planning, pipeline management, forecasting, deal strategy, sales plays, and regular performance reviews.
• Use data and insights to guide strategy and performance, analyzing pipeline health, sales activity, client coverage, market trends, and growth opportunities to optimize team effectiveness.
• Build strong cross-functional relationships with regional sales, product, marketing, analytics, and other stakeholders to align priorities, coordinate go-to-market efforts, and strengthen the feedback loop across the business.
• Establish structure, accountability, and operating rhythm for the team, including clear success metrics, stakeholder updates, business reviews, and consistent adoption of CRM, reporting tools, and sales technology.
• Champion change and continuous improvement by helping the team adopt new tools, processes, and strategies while identifying opportunities to improve sales motions, operating models, and business outcomes.

Leadership Expectations

The Director will be expected to:

• Model Visa’s leadership principles, setting the tone for accountability, collaboration, integrity, and high performance.
• Inspire and motivate the team to achieve and exceed sales goals, creating focus and discipline around client engagement, pipeline development, and revenue outcomes.
• Apply strong B2B sales expertise, including deep knowledge of sales processes, pipeline management, forecasting, and deal strategy.
• Translate regional and market knowledge into actionable sales strategies aligned to client needs, growth opportunities, and broader business priorities.
• Communicate with clarity and influence across a matrixed organization, engaging direct reports, peers, senior leaders, and cross-functional partners.
• Operate with sound judgment and independence, setting objectives, solving complex challenges, and guiding work to successful completion with limited supervision.
• Bring a solution-oriented mindset, offering practical recommendations to improve processes, tools, sales strategy, and regional and global ways of working.

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications

• 10 or more years of work experience with a Bachelor’s Degree or at least 8 years of work experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters/ MBA/JD/MD) or at least 3 years of work experience with a PhD

Preferred Qualifications

• 12 or more years of work experience with a Bachelor’s Degree or 8-10 years of experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD) or 6+ years of work experience with a PhD
• Prior experience in a full-cycle sales role or related client-facing commercial role, with a focus on direct client sales, pipeline development, and revenue growth.
• Demonstrated experience leading teams through change, including adoption of new tools, processes, sales motions, or operating rhythms.
• Demonstrated AI fluency and curiosity, with the ability to identify practical use cases that may improve seller productivity, client insights, pipeline management, or sales execution.
• Ability to partner with cross-functional teams and relevant COEs to evaluate emerging technologies responsibly, balancing innovation with governance, usability, and measurable business impact.
• Excellent communication, presentation, and coaching skills, with the ability to engage teams and leaders across multiple seniority levels.
• Ability to motivate, energize, and develop team members while creating accountability for measurable business outcomes.
• Knowledge of the payments industry preferred.

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