Product Manager, LabGarage

Job Description

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

The Visa LabGarage is a unique entity at Visa Brazil, responsible for the exploration, incubation and launch of new solutions. We operate in an agile mind set to rapidly build, test, iterate, and scale products quickly. We are a team of entrepreneurs, engineers, product developers and creators looking to build ambitious businesses.

The Visa LabGarage Product Manager is a versatile role, able to lead a variety of product development efforts and partnerships to launch impactful product concepts and platforms that can scale. You will work collaboratively with lean teams composed of entrepreneurs, product managers and full-stack developers in an agile environment.

The Visa Garage is a start-up within Visa and a fast-paced team that requires futurist thinkers that can inspire, coach others as well as be hands-on doers.

Responsibilities

• Think holistically about the design of new offerings and the implications related to both the customer’s experience as well as the venture’s ability to implement and scale.
• Manage the development and launch of new product features and reports through the entire product development lifecycle, from concept through implementation, and release.
• Apply experience to create innovative value driven solutions and insights while also establishing an outstanding user experience.
• Apply an informed perspective on how to leverage leading edge technologies to build products that will scale.
• Practice an agile approach to planning, problem solving, prioritization and development, rapidly prototyping at low fidelity whenever feasible to accelerate knowledge development.
• Coach/Mentor team members to internalize agile principles.
• Use divergent design thinking techniques for the conceptual development of products, services and/or physical connected form-factors.
• Converge innovative ideas to a set of digital and tangible products, services and/or physical connected form-factors in partnership with venture architects, product managers and engineering.
• Scan start-up ecosystem to identify solutions that can be accelerated.
• Partner with engineering to ensure requirements & user interfaces are properly implemented and meet architectural guidelines.
• Partner with development teams to develop products through a well-structured Agile Scrum model and set of ceremonies (Daily Standup, Backlog Grooming, Sprint Planning, Demos, Retrospectives) where you are a leader, not just a participant.

Qualifications

• Minimum Bachelor’s Degree, ideally in related technical field, or equivalent practical experience in conjunction with a less technical bachelor’s degree.
• Minimum 10 years of experience in a related field with product management experience including, product conception as well as launching, building, and deploying multiple products.
• Minimum 5 years of experience as a project manager and/or scrum master leading projects.
• Solid experience in agile methods.
• Solid experience in technical solution architecture.
• Strong understanding of software development, product development and rapid prototyping capabilities.
• Experience working with a variety of stakeholders, clients, and external partners
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Demonstrated organizational, planning, and analytical skills, including project scheduling, estimating, risk identification, and change management.
• Demonstrated ability to achieve strategic goals in an innovative and fast-paced environment.
• Ability to work independently, yet seamlessly integrate activities and collaborate effectively within a program team across other organizations
• Ability to influence without direct authority to achieve necessary goals.
• Experience in the payment industry is a plus.
This is a hybrid position. Hybrid employees can alternate time between both remote and office. Employees in hybrid roles are expected to work from the office two days a week, Tuesdays and Wednesdays with a general guidepost of being in the office 50% of the time based on business needs.

Additional Information

Visa is an EEO Employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability or protected veteran status. Visa will also consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with EEOC guidelines and applicable local law. I'm interested I'm interested Privacy Policy Cookies Settings