About the Role
The Senior Manager, Emerging Payments will lead the planning and execution of NA VCS’ embedded payments and agentic commerce go-to-market (GTM) initiatives through targeted, high-impact strategic marketing and activation efforts. Orchestrating across both Visa and external partner teams, this role is responsible for supporting key enabler partnerships across ERPs, AR /AP providers and accounting platforms, and will help drive their commercialization globally. This role will also serve as a strategic advisor to clients and partners, helping them adopt agentic commerce use cases in partnership with the VCS global product team. It blends strategic GTM planning with execution across partner activation, including compelling ways to communicate potential and realized value to clients.
Responsibilities
- Lead the planning and execution of NA VCS’ embedded payments and agentic commerce go-to-market (GTM) initiatives.
- Drive targeted, high-impact strategic marketing and activation efforts.
- Support key enabler partnerships across ERPs, AR/AP providers, and accounting platforms.
- Drive commercialization of partnerships globally.
- Serve as a strategic advisor to clients and partners on agentic commerce use cases.
- Blend strategic GTM planning with execution across partner activation.
- Communicate potential and realized value to clients.
Requirements
- 8 or more years of relevant work experience with a Bachelor Degree or at least 5 years of experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD) or 2 years of work experience with a PhD.
- 9 or more years of relevant work experience with a Bachelor Degree or 7 or more relevant years of experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD) or 3 or more years of experience with a PhD.
- Preferred experience in go-to-market, product commercialization, partner marketing, preferably in payments, fintech, SaaS platforms, or embedded financial services.
- Excellent track record in building and managing partner marketing programs on a global scale preferably in SaaS and fintech companies.
- Demonstrated results designing and implementing go-to-market efforts in collaboration with Sales, Marketing and Product teams, and with Partners.
- Excellent writing and storytelling skills; ability to translate complex concepts into intuitive and compelling content for a diverse audience.
- Comfortable operating in a fast-paced, ambiguous environment with a builder mentality.
- Strong project management and interpersonal skills.
- U.S. Applicants Only.
Skills
- Go-to-market strategy
- Product commercialization
- Partner marketing
- Payments
- Fintech
- SaaS platforms
- Embedded financial services
- Global program management
- Sales collaboration
- Marketing collaboration
- Product collaboration
- Writing
- Storytelling
- Project management
- Interpersonal skills
Work Type
- Office setting
Experience Level
- Senior Manager
- 8+ years relevant work experience
- 5+ years relevant work experience with Advanced Degree
- 2+ years relevant work experience with PhD
- 9+ years relevant work experience
- 7+ years relevant work experience with Advanced Degree
- 3+ years relevant work experience with PhD
Education Level
- Bachelor Degree
- Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD)
- PhD
Salary/Compensations
- $169,100 to $270,800 USD per year
- May include potential sales incentive payments
- May be eligible for bonus and equity
Benefits
- Medical
- Dental
- Vision
- 401(k)
- FSA/HSA
- Life Insurance
- Paid Time Off
- Wellness Program
About the Company
- 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.
- Our evolving technology keeps us at the heart of the digital economy, connecting people to 80+ million businesses worldwide.
- Backed by a resilient, proven model, our expanding network fuels growth—for Visa and for your career.
Equal Opportunity
- 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.
