Senior Director, Business/product Communications

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**

The Asia Pacific regional communication team creates and delivers communication programs that drive Visa’s business growth and advance and protect the company’s reputation. This team takes ownership of the Company’s external comms profile including Asia Pacific’s President and senior leadership team, Products & Solutions, Innovation, New Payment Flows, Merchant Sales & Acquiring, Risk, Consulting and Analytics, Technology, and Strategy. We work across external, client and employee communication activities to promote Visa’s ongoing strategy to extend our payments network into new areas of opportunity and position ourselves as the partner of choice for banks, merchants, fintechs, technology companies and governments. In close partnership with the business functions, our team defines the company’s positions in the region on a wide range of industry topics and delivers corresponding thought leadership content.

**What a Senior Director, Business Communication does at Visa**:
In this role, you will work with the AP leadership team and key functions across the business: Product, Merchant Sales & Acquiring, New Flows, Risk, Visa Consulting & Analytics and Technology. You will conceptualise and deliver communication programs that drive business results for Visa’s critical growth pillars and how these support the growth of our clients’ businesses. You will oversee regional thought leadership communication including content for external, client and internal audiences. This includes comprehensive corporate storytelling collateral, media and social campaigns, and stakeholder education delivered via a mix of channels including events.

In this role, you will be the regional communication lead for a range of areas that are central to Visa’s growth and manage the communication needs of the relevant functional teams and oversee communication campaigns that reflect these areas’ increased importance to Visa’s long-term growth strategy. You will play a key role in managing issues and supporting crisis communication across Asia Pacific. You will also directly manage a high-performing regional communications team to drive Visa’s key communications priorities.

It is vital for the applicant to demonstrate knowledge and capability in helping regional and local business and communication teams engage stakeholders and reinforce Visa’s vision for the future of commerce as it relates to our long-term commitment to uplift economies. In addition to delivering high-quality communication programs, you will act as a trusted advisor to Visa’s leadership team in some of the region’s most complex functions, helping them talk about their business objectives in a way that has a meaningful impact in the communities in which we operate. You will also play a key role in ensuring the company’s public and client-facing messages in Asia Pacific are communicated with a whole-of-Visa perspective, coordinating across geographies to make sure all content, from press releases to speeches, is consistent and aligned.

**Why this is important to Visa**

In this role, you will be a member of a high-performing team charged with all aspects of corporate communication for critical business functions in Asia Pacific - areas that are focused on maintaining Visa’s leadership in an increasingly complex operating environment. As the Visa network evolves beyond plastic cards into a network of networks that can facilitate money movement to anyone, anywhere, it is essential to our long-term success that we communicate this evolution to all our constituents and define Visa as a purpose-driven payments technology company that enables individuals, businesses, and economies to thrive.

**Projects you will be a part of**:
This team creates and leads many of the highest profile communication programs in the region. We oversee the Asia Pacific communication strategy to define and articulate Visa’s network evolution as it relates to innovation, trust and corporate citizenship. On a tactical level, you’ll support the delivery of regional strategic e