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 Shape the Future of Risk, Fraud, and Identity at Visa Visa's Product and Payment Services Risk (PPSR) organization is seeking a highly strategic and technically adept risk leader to serve as the primary Risk Business Partner supporting Risk and Security Solutions (RAS). This role sits at the intersection of enterprise risk management, fraud prevention, data analytics, product innovation, and business strategy. As a trusted advisor to senior executives, you will influence critical decisions that shape Visa's risk posture across a portfolio of market-leading risk, fraud, identity, authentication, and data-driven solutions. You will partner directly with business leaders, product organization, technology teams, and cross-functional stakeholders to proactively identify emerging risks, challenge assumptions, enhance controls, and support strategic growth initiatives. This individual will be expected to bring strong enterprise risk expertise, deep strategic thinking capabilities, and a thorough understanding of payments, fraud ecosystems and data-driven products. The ideal candidate is viewed by executive leadership as a thought leader who can translate complex risk concepts into actionable business insights while driving strategic decision-making across a rapidly evolving risk and payments landscape. What You'll Do Strategic Risk Leadership Serve as the primary risk advisor to the Risk and Security Solutions organization, influencing business strategy, product development, operational execution, and long-term growth initiatives. Partner with executive leadership to identify, assess, monitor, and mitigate key enterprise, operational, technology, model, regulatory, and strategic risks. Develop and maintain a forward-looking view of emerging risks impacting fraud management, digital identity, authentication, data products, AI/ML capabilities, and payment ecosystems. Assess strategic initiatives, partnerships, and business transformations through a risk lens while enabling responsible innovation. Provide effective challenge and risk-based recommendations to senior executives to support informed decision making. Fraud, Data & Analytics Risk Expertise Partner closely with fraud, analytics, and product teams responsible for fraud prevention, risk scoring, identity verification, authentication, and machine learning solutions. Evaluate risks associated with data-driven products, AI/ML models, predictive analytics, fraud detection platforms, and automated decisioning capabilities. Identify potential control gaps, model risks, data governance concerns, operational vulnerabilities, and emerging fraud threats. Support risk oversight of data ecosystems, fraud models, identity solutions, and strategic analytics initiatives. Enterprise Risk Management & Governance Connect Visa's Risk Appetite Framework with business strategy, products, and operational objectives. Lead risk assessments for significant initiatives, product launches, and emerging business opportunities. Drive compliance and execution across enterprise risk programs, including: PRR RCSA TLMP Model Risk Management (MRM) Visa Data Assessment (ViDA) Develop both top-down and bottom-up risk views to provide meaningful risk insights to executive leadership. Strengthen first-line risk ownership and accountability through proactive partnership and governance. Executive Engagement & Influence Present risk the