Want to professionalize your AI skills, pivot to an AI role and increase your salary?
Master AI Engineering with the most practical and comprehensive LLM Development certifications at Towards AI Academy.

Visa

Director, Global Data Office

Visa

Published 06 Apr 2026
USA
192K - 308K USD Annual
Full Time

Share this job

Role Highlights

Languages used

Key skills

Data Governance
Prompt Engineering
Anomaly Detection
Computer Science
Integrations
API
Product Management
Customer Success
Data Visualization
Data Quality
Research
Machine Learning
AI
Routing
Prioritization
Security
GDPR
Embedded
KPI
MBA
Quantitative
Cloud
Storage
Streaming

Tools, Libraries and Frameworks

LOOP
AWS
Azure
GCP
Ruby On Rails

Description

Visa Director, Global Data Office \\\| SmartRecruiters Google Chrome Microsoft Edge Apple Safari Mozilla Firefox . Director, Global Data Office Full-time Job Family Group: Product and Design Company Description 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 With data being the fuel that drives our futureour strategies, policies, and business successes around data will define our future growth prospects. Unlocking the value available through the innovative use of data on behalf of consumers, businesses, and communities is key to our future. Led by Visas Chief Data Officer, the Global Data Office coordinates high impact, complex, company wide projects related to data business strategy, critical investments, policy development, and marketplace execution. Working closely with Visas Chief Privacy Officer, the Technology organization, the wider data community, and the full set of Visas global lines of business, the Global Data Office is evolving Visas data related work with momentum and enthusiasm. Driven by its commitment to trusted use of data, Visa is seeking enthusiastic leaders who are change agents and passionate about the future of data around the world. This position plays a critical role in developing commercial data products for enterprise clientsoverseeing product management teams and creating cross functional alignment across the company. The clients are typically Visas partners in the network ecosystems, like issuers and acquirers. The  Director will need to secure internal alignment and ensure products follow a disciplined structure from ideation POC MVP GA, driving excellence for all kinds of data products such as dashboards, APIs, model scores, and decisioning tools that deliver measurable business value. Key Responsibilities: Market & Customer Insight: Identify user needs for dashboards, APIs, model scores, and decisioning tools conduct research to validate problems and align solutions to business outcomes. Product Vision & Roadmap: Define strategy and a compelling multi year roadmap prioritize features (e.g., data visualization, API integrations, ML model accuracy) and plan releases that balance customer impact, technical feasibility, and compliance. Agentic AI & ML Integration: Design and deliver agentic AI capabilitiesgoal driven AI agents that autonomously plan, act, and adapt across workflows (e.g., anomaly detection, automated reporting, intelligent routing of data tasks). Establish AI safety & governance mitigate risks like prompt injection, model/data poisoning, and ensure human in the loop review, audit trails, and secure orchestration of autonomous agents. Cross Functional Collaboration: Partner with data scientists, engineers, analysts, designers, and business stakeholders translate business needs into technical requirements and communicate product value to non technical audiences. Feature Definition & Prioritization: Specify requirements for data quality, security, privacy (e.g., GDPR/CCPA compliance), usability, and scalability ensure privacy by design and security by design principles are embedded. Execution & Development Oversight: Own the lifecycle from concept to launch and beyond work with engineering to design, develop, and ship secure, scalable data products (including APIs, dashboards, and model serving). Launch & Iteration: Lead go to market in partnership with Sales/GTM, Marketing, and Customer Success gather feedback and iterate using adoption, accuracy, latency, error rate, and ROI metrics. Performance Monitoring: Define and track product KPIs (usage, latency, error rates, data freshness, model performance) instrument telemetry and observability across services and user journeys. Data Governance & Quality: Implement policies and tooling for data lineage, consent management, retention, and compliance partner with Legal, Privacy, and Security to meet global regulations. This is a hybrid position. Expectation of days in office will be confirmed by your hiring manager. Qualifications Basic Qualifications: 10 or more years of work experience with a Bachelors 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 Bachelors 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 10+ years in product management with experience leading PMs or cross functional initiatives at increasing levels of responsibility Bachelors degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a quantitative field (or equivalent experience) advanced degree (e.g., MS, MBA) a plus. Technical Fluency: Hands on familiarity with modern data platforms and cloud services (AWS/Azure/GCP), including data pipelines, storage, streaming, and observability. Security/Privacy: Working knowledge of global data privacy regulations (GDPR, CCPA/CPRA) and privacy by design principles. Leadership & Communication: Proven ability to align stakeholders and lead cross functional teams clear communication to both technical and non technical audiences. Metrics & Iteration: Track record of defining KPIs and iterating post launch to drive adoption and business outcomes. Agentic AI & ML Product Experience: Background building AI enabled or agentic AI products familiarity with planning/action/feedback loops and multi agent orchestration. Organizational Change: Proven record driving effective organizational change and aligning on a vision in a global matrixed organization. AI Safety & Governance: Experience mitigating prompt injection and data/model poisoning risks familiarity with secure AI frameworks. Certifications (Plus): Pragmatic Institute (PM) and/or relevant cloud certifications (AWS/GCP/Azure). Adaptability: Highly adaptive, comfortable working within complex and ambiguous environments. Communication: Proactive communicator, experienced at presenting information to senior levels and facilitating discussions across geographic and functional lines. Additional Information 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 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. Visa will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with applicable local law, including the requirements of Article 49 of the San Francisco Police Code. U.S. APPLICANTS ONLY: The estimated salary range for this position is 192,300.00 to 307,600.00 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. I'm interested I'm interestedPrivacy NoticeCookies Settings I'm interested Refer a friend share this job Share on LinkedIn Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via email Share on Xing Share on WeChat Other jobs at Visa Director, Software Engineering - GenAI Bellevue, WA Lead Data Architect Bellevue, WA Senior Manager, Employee Experience & Learning Foster City, CA Show all jobs Share to WeChat × Copy the link and open WeChat to share. Copy to clipboard Open WeChat Share to WeChat × Use Scan QR Code in WeChat and click ··· to share. Director, Global Data Office Foster City, CA Full-time I'm interested I'm interested

Required Qualifications and Skills

The role requires a minimum of 10 years of work experience with a Bachelor's Degree, or at least 8 years with an Advanced Degree, or 3 years with a PhD. Preferred qualifications include 12 or more years of work experience with a Bachelor's Degree, or 8-10 years with an Advanced Degree, or 6+ years with a PhD. A Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a quantitative field is preferred, with an advanced degree being a plus. Technical fluency with modern data platforms and cloud services such as AWS, Azure, or GCP is necessary, including familiarity with data pipelines, storage, streaming, and observability. Experience building AI-enabled or agentic AI products, including familiarity with planning/action/feedback loops and multi-agent orchestration, is also a requirement.

Disclaimer

Disclaimer: Job and company description information and some of the data fields may have been generated via GPT-4 summarisation and could contain inaccuracies. The full external job listing link should always be relied on for authoritative information.

About the company

Visa

Size

25017

Website

visa.com

HQ

Foster City, US

Public/Private

Public Company

Description

Visa is a world leader in digital payments, facilitating more than 215 billion payment transactions between various parties across over 200 countries and territories each year. Their mission is to connect the world through the most innovative, convenient, reliable, and secure payments network, enabling individuals, businesses, and economies to thrive. By including everyone everywhere, Visa believes in uplifting everyone everywhere. Working with Visa means contributing to a culture that embraces identity and purpose, ensuring that the work has a direct impact on billions of people globally by unlocking financial access and enabling the future of money movement.

Share

Share this job

Related jobs

Data Science
Data Engineer
Big Data
Project Management
USA
Full Time
Machine Learning
Data Science
Vector Database
Computer Science
USA
Full Time
Integrations
Manager
AI
Infrastructure
San Francisco, CA, USA
Full Time