Lead Technical Program Manager (tpm)

Visa Visa · Fintech · Austin, TX +1

Visa is seeking a Lead Technical Program Manager (TPM) to build and deliver advanced services and capabilities for Visa’s customers. The TPM will work closely with product management and software engineering leaders to define, plan, and prepare high-quality solutions for successful delivery. This role involves engaging with stakeholders, defining problem statements and success criteria, collaborating on product and solution definition, managing backlogs, and driving engineering improvements including AI adoption. The ideal candidate will have an engineering background, a strong delivery track record, and excellent communication skills, with experience or interest in AI/LLMs being a plus.

What you'd actually do

  1. Engage with product managers and key stakeholders to understand business problems, objectives, and timelines. Shape product concepts and work with product and engineering teams to identify strategic approaches and solution options. Ensure business needs are clearly articulated, prioritized, and aligned with strategic goals.
  2. Create high-quality problem statements that concisely define the issue, context, scope, and impact. Define measurable business success criteria for every initiative. Build shared understanding among stakeholders to ensure alignment before engineering work begins.
  3. Collaborate with product management and engineering to translate business needs into clear requirements and high-level solution options, including data flows and system interactions. Ensure requirements are complete, actionable, and understood by all stakeholders.
  4. Lead planning activities to ensure features and initiatives are well-defined, prioritized, feasible, and ready for engineering teams to estimate and execute.
  5. Own and manage the product backlog, including prioritization, definition, and refinement of epics and features. Ensure the product backlog is clear, unambiguous, and complete, providing engineering with the information needed to confidently estimate and plan the next sprint.

Skills

Required

  • Engineering background
  • Delivery track record
  • Communication skills
  • Technical Program Management

Nice to have

  • AI/LLMs
  • data science
  • UX/UI
  • mobile (iOS/Android)
  • cloud and hybrid infrastructure
  • Kubernetes
  • CI/CD and DevOps
  • analytics and dashboards
  • payments industry

What the JD emphasized

  • built software
  • operated technical systems
  • shipped product