Program Manager, Strategic Clients Delivery

Visa Visa · Fintech · Foster City, CA

Program Manager for Visa's Strategic Clients Delivery organization, leading commercial launches of products and services. This client-facing role requires leading end-to-end execution of strategic product-led initiatives, establishing governance, orchestrating cross-functional workstreams, and managing stakeholder alignment. The role involves understanding industry trends including payments, AI, crypto, and digital assets, and contributing to account planning with product adoption insights. Requires strong program management, communication, and influencing skills, with a focus on execution in fast-paced, matrixed environments.

What you'd actually do

  1. Lead end-to-end execution of Visa’s most strategic product-led initiatives for assigned clients, ensuring disciplined delivery through completion.
  2. Establish structure, governance, and execution rigor across the full program lifecycle.
  3. Orchestrate complex, cross-functional workstreams spanning multiple teams and parallel efforts.
  4. Work across a diverse stakeholder set to define scope, secure alignment and resources, and improve operating processes that enable execution excellence.
  5. Balance competing priorities while identifying synergies, aligning adjacent initiatives, and driving cohesion across cross-functional partners.

Skills

Required

  • 5 or more years of relevant work experience with a Bachelors Degree or at least 2 years of work experience with an Advanced degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD) or 0 years of work experience with a PhD
  • 5–7 years of experience in product, product development, or complex cross-functional delivery in fast-paced, matrixed environments
  • Strong program management discipline, with attention to detail and experience managing overlapping initiatives and deadlines
  • Excellent communicator and influencer, able to simplify complex concepts for clients and executive audiences
  • Collaborative and diplomatic, with sound judgment and poise under pressure
  • Able to operate globally, working effectively across teams, regions, and time zones
  • Strong payments industry knowledge, including regulatory considerations and emerging trends such as crypto and Agentic Commerce.

Nice to have

  • 6 or more years of work experience with a Bachelors Degree or 4 or more years of relevant experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD) or up to 3 years of relevant experience with a PhD
  • Highly driven self-starter with a strong execution focus, comfort operating in ambiguity, and a get-things-done DNA.
  • Agile and adaptable, with experience driving new ways of working in evolving organizations
  • Entrepreneurial problem solver who identifies needs, removes barriers, and drives outcomes

What the JD emphasized

  • payments industry knowledge
  • regulatory considerations