About the position
Visa's Crypto Product Team is responsible for identifying new product opportunities that exist within the emerging crypto, stablecoin, and blockchain network landscape, creating strategies that define Visa's participation in the ecosystem, and delivering the capabilities required to capture those opportunities. We are looking for an experienced product manager who is passionate about designing the next generation of stablecoin based solutions to achieve Visa's goals. The Product Manager will focus on building and scaling existing and new stablecoin based solutions. This includes Visa settlement using Stablecoins and Visa’s Tokenized Asset Platform (VTAP) which enables banks to issue Stablecoins on public or private blockchains. You can expect to spend time working with clients to understand their stablecoin vision, translate that vision into new features for our product portfolio, and work with technology teams to manage backlog and requirements to get new features implemented. This role should have expertise in Agile product management, be able to speak fluidly with both technical and business staff and have a passion for crypto that keeps you motivated to find solutions and keep pushing when roadblocks appear.
Responsibilities
- Support the delivery of tailored stablecoin and blockchain network solutions for a wide variety of Visa’s partners including banks, fintechs, merchants, central banks, and blockchain network ecosystem participants.
- Responsible for managing specific platform features and collaborating with key stakeholders across the strategy, risk, research, and engineering organizations.
- Engage with clients to clearly understand & model customer needs and requirements to incorporate into Visa solutions.
- Author product requirements documents that clearly convey what needs to be built to engineering, as well as criteria on how a requirement will be deemed to be complete and successful.
- Stay up to speed on latest developments in crypto industry, including devouring updates to regulations and legal thinking towards stablecoins, tokenized deposits, and CBDCs.
- Incorporate learnings and industry direction into adaptable products that can quickly pivot and meet market demand.
- Work closely with the extended Crypto business team to scale emerging crypto product lines from initial proof of concept through go-to-market execution that spans pricing, strategy, deal structuring, and client support.
- Build strong internal relationships with business partners—including the product, legal, risk, and engineering teams.
Requirements
- 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.
- Experience in digital product management.
- Possess significant functional knowledge of the cryptocurrency ecosystem and players involved, including in-depth knowledge around permissionless blockchain technology as well as a deep understanding of existing retail payment solutions.
- Good understanding of financial & payment systems concepts such as banking, fractional reserves, cross-border payments, payment authorization, clearing & settlement.
- Passionate about payments, stablecoins, and cryptocurrency and driven by opportunities to scale new products and businesses.
- Demonstrated problem solving skills and creativity to find new opportunities and anticipate how stablecoins could impact payments.
- Advanced communication skills with the ability to influence across all levels of an organization.
- Ability to travel as needed.
- Familiarity with Jira Align and Jira.
- Familiarity writing epics and user stories in Agile methodology.
- Ability to take a complex use case and break down into component requirements (requirements decomposition).
- Experience facilitating requirements from clients during workshops.
- Experience with process mapping and documentation (BPMN, UML, etc.).
- Ability to lead Agile pod towards execution of roadmap items to include initial estimation of use case and requirements, documentation of user stories into Jira, clarification of requirements working with devs, and tracking of timelines and completion of story points towards overall release goals.
- Ability to write test cases, perform user acceptance testing, and confirm business requirements are met.
- Ability to support meetings in multiple time zones and have a flexible schedule to support emerging opportunities and night-time meetings 1-2 days a week.
- Ability to create compelling presentations, consulting experience, and or sales pitch deck experience.
- Ability to liaison between product team, engineering, business, and research teams and bridge the gap in speaking to a variety of stakeholders, both technical and non-technical.
- Familiarity with API testing tools like Postman or similar.
- Familiarity with release management practices and maintaining documentation relating to all product releases.
Nice-to-haves
- 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.
Benefits
- Medical
- Dental
- Vision
- 401 (k)
- FSA/HSA
- Life Insurance
- Paid Time Off
- Wellness Program
