Overview

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 Job Summary The Director, Payment Platform Strategy is a senior individual contributor responsible for driving strategy across Visa's domestic and regional processing portfolio. The role will own Visa's localization and sovereignty strategy, including defining new platform offerings across VisaNet and OVN in partnership with regional, market, and corporate strategy teams. The Director will also provide strategic oversight of broader domestic and regional demand, ensuring clear visibility into current priorities, capacity, work in flight, and the backlog. Working with product and technology leaders, the Director will help shape prioritization decisions and ensure regional teams receive timely, transparent guidance on whether requests can be accommodated and when. This is a hands-on role that connects strategy to execution. The Director will partner with product delivery, release management, VisaNet, OVN, and regional teams to improve intake and handoffs, reduce the time required to reach decisions, expand adoption of the agentic toolchain, and identify opportunities for greater reuse and standardization. Key Responsibilities Localization and Sovereignty Platform Strategy Own and evolve Visa's strategy for domestic processing, localization, and sovereignty across the platform portfolio. Partner with regional, market, and corporate strategy teams to define new platform offerings, deployment models, and operating approaches that address evolving market and sovereignty requirements. Develop recommendations for how market needs should be addressed across global VisaNet capabilities, localized deployments, OVN-based solutions, and sovereign platform models. Identify opportunities for reusable capabilities and common platform patterns that reduce reliance on market-specific solutions and accelerate future deployments. VisaNet and OVN Roadmap and Solutioning Own the strategic relationship between VisaNet and OVN for domestic and regional processing initiatives. Align VisaNet and OVN roadmaps, modernization plans, and client migration approaches to provide a coherent long-term platform strategy for regional stakeholders and clients. Evaluate where capabilities should converge vs remain distinct and surface strategic gaps, dependencies, and investment needs. Assess how regional, localization, and sovereignty requirements should be addressed across VisaNet and OVN, helping define the most appropriate platform approach for different market needs. Regional Demand Management and Communication Maintain a consolidated view of regional demand, work in flight, backlog, and investment priorities. Lead monthly regional reviews and communicate roadmap priorities, delivery expectations, and tradeoffs. Identify opportunities for platform reuse and common solutions across markets while highlighting areas that require unique local treatment. Partner with product and technology leaders on prioritization decisions and capacity tradeoffs. Ensure stakeholders receive timely and transparent guidance regarding request disposition and expected delivery timing. Improve intake quality, handoffs, and decision-making processes. Ensure domestic, regional, and sovereign market needs are understood, represented, and reflected in platform strategy, roadmap discussions, and modernization planning Cross-Functional Partnership and Communication Build trusted relationships across product