Senior Director, Fintech

Company Description

Visa is a world leader in digital payments, facilitating more than 215 billion payments transactions between consumers, merchants, financial institutions and government entities across more than 200 countries and territories each year. Our mission is to connect the world through the most innovative, convenient, reliable and secure payments network, enabling individuals, businesses and economies to thrive.

When you join Visa, you join a culture of purpose and belonging - where your growth is priority, your identity is embraced, and the work you do matters. We believe that economies that include everyone everywhere, uplift everyone everywhere. Your work will have a direct impact on billions of people around the world - helping unlock financial access to enable the future of money movement.

**Join Visa: A Network Working for Everyone.**

**Job Description**:
**Team Summary**

Visa Innovation is a global team that drives Visa’s innovation agenda and supports Visa’s clients and partners in designing and accelerating new digital solutions that advance the future of commerce. Visa runs innovation centers in various regional headquarters, and this position is for Visa Innovation Center in Singapore which covers all major markets in Asia Pacific including Australia, Singapore, Japan, China, India, Indonesia, Thailand among others.

**What a Senior Director, Fintech & Partner Innovation, AP does at Visa**:
We are looking for a Senior Director to head up our Fintech & Partner Innovation initiatives, with the goal of driving net new growth for Visa and partners, by jointly designing and launching new solutions that leverage Visa’s network and capabilities. We are passionate about helping growth-stage fintech startups, digital partners and financial institutions accelerate the development and commercialisation of new products / solutions / technology and scale up with Visa’s clients and partners.

The Senior Director will directly oversee the Visa Accelerator Program in Asia Pacific, which helps startups who have launched successful solutions in their home markets and are looking towards their next stage of growth. The program intends to enable startups to quickly test and validate partnership opportunities, co-create new capabilities with Visa, and move promising opportunities forward with a fast-tracked path to pilots, partnerships, and commercialization. You’ll have end-to-end accountability over the program, including program design, startup recruiting and selection, proof of concept scoping and delivery, and defining our post-program engagement model with the startups. You’ll also be expected to mobilise startup and Visa stakeholders against these objectives, and evangelise the program through marketing, communications and outreach to startup networks.

This role reports to the Vice President of Innovation. You will be part of a high-performing team that collaborates regularly with stakeholders (e.g. product owners, account leads, technologists, designers) across the organisation. The team believes in curiosity, experimentation, continuous learning, respectful collaboration, inclusion, empathy, resilience and fun

Responsibilities include:

- End-to-end accountability and oversight of the Visa Accelerator Program in Asia Pacific:

- Responsible for overall program strategy, budget, implementation and operations
- Oversee recruitment, screening and evaluation of potential startup participants together with regional product, partnerships and sales teams
- Mobilise startups and cross-functional Visa stakeholders to scope out proof of concepts that deliver tangible value, and are mapped to the strategic priorities of both the startups and Visa
- Deliver against these proof-of-concepts with measurable technical and commercial outcomes within the duration of the program
- Build compelling rationale, business case and development roadmap to obtain senior stakeholders’ buy-in, and ensure successful hand-off to other Visa teams for the next phase of startup partnership
- Evaluate and refine program structure and approach on a regular basis
- Evangelise and champion the program within Visa, and with external parties through marketing, communications and outreach to startup networks
- Manage external agencies to deliver against the above goals
- Accountable for end-to-end innovation engagement delivery with larger fintechs and digital platforms:

- Define project scope and approach, ensuring alignment with partner and Visa objectives
- Design and conduct research to understand end-user needs, ecosystem players’ roles and requirements, revenue potential, regulatory requirements and competitive landscape (as required by the project)
- Lead a cross-functional team of SMEs (designers, product managers, solution architects and marketers) from Visa and clients / partners to design holistic solutions and define new enabling capabilities (technology, process, commercial)
- Ensure top-quality, c