Solution Architect, Urban Mobility

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**:
**What we expect you to do, day to day.**
- Product delivery for Urban Mobility (UM) solutions across Germany, Austria, Switzerland, and Netherlands, including deployment of contactless and app-based acceptance solutions in transit and other mobility sectors
- Actively manage pipeline of clients, ecosystem providers and solutions providers across Central Europe markets
- Work closely with Visa Global and Visa Europe hub teams to help scale projects and expand adoption including understanding and addressing associated impacts and requirements
- Drive solutions adoption and look at commercial opportunities to scale/distribute that allow for broadening UM acceptance in new payment flows, new acceptance locations/verticals, and expanding in existing markets
- Own the implementation of new Visa Urban Mobility Solutions across targeted project list, providing critical local knowledge and insights, in close support of the Visa Global Urban Mobility Solutions initiative, leveraging local Product and Acceptance teams
- Provide post-implementation support
- Work closely with industry and internal stakeholders across the organisation to understand market needs and improve solutions with enhancements that lead to better competitiveness, as well as pricing impacts and go-to-market requirements
- Provide input to the product innovation process, particularly relating to improvements in existing frameworks
- Provide regular updates and reporting to leadership levels of Visa management on key metrics and objectives, adapt overall programme tactics and strategies to address challenges/issues/opportunities
- Review market activity to ensure propositions remain differentiated and compelling
- Support key priorities and initiatives from Central Europe and European leadership as required
- As requirements of this role evolve, adapt to growing needs of the team and broader products organisation

**Qualifications**:

- Knowledge and experience of the complexities of the Mass Transit and Open Payment frameworks and ecosystems
- Previous experience of successful implementation and project rollout activity
- Industry relationships with transit integrators and solution vendors is nice to have
- 5+ years of product management experience in technology roles
- Curious and inquisitive problem solver - thrives in difficult and big problem spaces
- Ability to transpose business and technical understanding to relevant market inputs with sales and product teams as well as with external client discussions - leading to commercial & revenue opportunities
- Ownership and driving impact are important aspects to the role, must have the mindset to fully understand and quickly overcome commercial, technical, industry and internal challenges to succeedComfortable in iterative and continuous change to maximise opportunities and drive efficiencies
- Strong ability to progress solutions and enhancements with urgency and prioritised focus for commercial and strategic benefits for our customers and Visa
- Knowledge & insights across the Central Europe payment industry and technical environment
- German native speaker with excellent command of both written and spoken English

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.