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Director, Payment Partnerships & Product Solutions

Visa

San Francisco, CAFull-time$179–287K/yrPosted 1w agoStill listed today

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At a glance

Compensation
$179–287K/yr
Location
San Francisco, CA
Schedule
Full-time
Work Authorization
Not specified

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Job overview

The Director, Strategic Partnerships shapes and executes growth initiatives with strategic global accounts. The role leads account strategy and relationship management for global Payment Facilitator accounts, identifies partnership growth models, and aligns cross-functional teams. It also supports partner discovery, ideation, and product solutioning, driving opportunities through closure and overseeing implementation. The position requires an experienced payments professional with product solutioning strategy and business development experience.

Skills & qualifications

RequiredNice to have

Skills

New Business DevelopmentAccount ManagementSales PlanningCollaborationStrategic PartnershipProduct Solutioning StrategyBusiness DevelopmentCross-Functional CollaborationProduct IdeationComplex Sales ManagementDeal NegotiationStrategic Initiative ImplementationStrategic ThinkingAnalytical Problem SolvingThought Leadership

Qualifications

Bachelor's Degree or 10 Years ExperienceAdvanced Degree or 8 Years ExperiencePhD or 3 Years Experience12 Years Work ExperienceAdvanced Degree or 8-10 Years ExperiencePhD or 6+ Years Experience5 Years Business Experience

Benefits

Medical Insurance
Dental Insurance
Vision Insurance
401(k) Match
Paid Time Off

Full job description

About Us Visa is a world leader in payments technology, facilitating transactions between consumers, merchants, financial institutions and government entities across more than 200 countries and territories, dedicated to uplifting everyone, everywhere by being the best way to pay and be paid.

At Visa, you'll have the opportunity to create impact at scale — tackling meaningful challenges, growing your skills and seeing your contributions impact lives around the world.

Join Visa and do work that matters – to you, to your community, and to the world. Progress starts with you.

Job Description

The Director, Strategic Partnerships is responsible for helping to shape and execute on growth initiatives and projects with strategic global accounts. This includes understanding in depth both Visa and our partner’s capabilities, needs, and goals and driving towards successful outcomes, which could come in the form of deal execution, new product or market launches, solutioning and pilots, growing existing business lines, or other strategic priorities. The role requires an experienced payments professional with strong product solutioning strategy and business development experience, who works well cross-functionally and with clients to form relationships that positively influence execution outcomes.

Essential Functions include Account Strategy & Management:

  • Lead the account and relationship management and sales plan for global Payment Facilitator accounts, orchestrating across internal and external stakeholder and ensuring focus and forward movement on top priorities

  • Identify and pursue partnership growth models that provide step-function value, distribution channels, or new capabilities for Visa

  • Align cross-functional teams on key initiatives, including representation from: Legal, Government Engagement, Product, Operations, Risk, and Local Market teams.

  • Work with cross-functional teams to ensure partner implementations and existing business lines are growing and meeting mutual expectations

  • Establish global performance and management reporting infrastructure, delivering insights and activating Visa leaders into the account for critical support where necessary

Product Solutioning:

  • Support and manage discovery, ideation, and product solutioning with partners in a thoughtful and creative manner, while collaborating with key internal stakeholders including product owners and sales specialists.

  • Drive opportunities through to closure with legal, finance, and product counterparts; oversee product implementation, and maintain product enhancement feedback loop

Visa requires at least 3 days in office, expectations of these days will be confirmed by your Hiring Manager.

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications

  • 10 or more years of work experience with a Bachelor’s Degree or at least 8 years of work experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters/ MBA/JD/MD) or at least 3 years of work experience with a PhD

Preferred Qualifications

  • 12 or more years of work experience with a Bachelor’s Degree or 8-10 years of experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD) or 6+ years of work experience with a PhD

  • A minimum of 5 years business experience, with related product, sales and management experience in the payments and/or financial services industry, with particular preferred experience in cross border money movement, card networks and/or PSPs

  • Proven record of creative product solutioning with complex product sets, driving client ideation and innovation

  • Demonstrated track record of planning, managing and closing a complex, competitive sales effort and managing deals from negotiation, to closing and through delivery

  • Proven record of implementing strategic initiatives, policies and operational decisions

  • Strategic thinking, analytical/problem solving and thought leadership

Information for US Applicants For roles located in the US, the estimated salary range for this position is $179,000.00 to $ 287,000.00 USD per year, which may include potential sales incentive payments (if applicable). Salary may vary depending on job-related factors which may include knowledge, skills, experience, and location. In addition, this position may be eligible for bonus and equity.Visa has a comprehensive benefits package for which this position may be eligible that includes Medical, Dental, Vision, 401(k), FSA/HSA, Life Insurance, Paid Time Off, and Wellness Program. Work Hours Varies upon the needs of the department.

Travel Requirements This position requires travel 5-10% of the time.

Mental/Physical Requirements This position will be performed in an office setting. The position will require the incumbent to sit and stand at a desk, communicate in person and by telephone, frequently operate standard office equipment, such as telephones and computers.

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 protect veteran status. Visa will also consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the EEOC guidelines and applicable local law, including the requirements of Article 49 of the San Francisco Police Code.

How this job compares

Set against the 512 open Strategic Partnerships jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 5, 2026.

Pay
  • This posting$179–287K/yr
  • California median$180–261K/yr106 salary ranges
  • US median$163–203K/yr439 salary ranges

This range's midpoint, $233K, is 5% above the California median midpoint ($221K) — in the middle half of Strategic Partnerships salary ranges in California.

Openings
Olive Jobs lists 126 open Strategic Partnerships jobs in California and 512 across the US. 25% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
Hiring the most in California
Experience
This posting asks for at least 3 years of experience — less than three in four Strategic Partnerships postings that state a minimum ask for (median 8 years, across 417 postings).
Education
104 of the 512 open Strategic Partnerships jobs (20%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.

Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 5, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.

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