Vice President, Gateway Services Products

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

Visa's Gateway Services is responsible for the front door into the Visa network, providing the secure connectivity, routing, and access mechanisms that allow merchants, acquirers, wallets, and partners to submit transactions into VisaNet. As Visa modernizes its core processing platforms through Open VisaNet (OVN), Gateway Services plays a critical role in evolving legacy access models toward APIdriven, scalable, and globally distributed architectures that safely support new payment flows, regions, and business models.

Gateway Services is also embedding AI and automation across engineering and operations to accelerate delivery, improve resilience, and evolve from reactive operations toward predictive, intelligent platforms aligned with Visa's 2030 technology strategy.

Essential Functions:

In this mission-critical role, you will be at the forefront of leading, defining, and building the next generation of systems that provide connectivity and access into Visa. These access systems are fundamental to the Visa business and among the most missioncritical platforms at Visa. You will lead and guide your organization to deliver gateway and access solutions that integrate directly with Visa's broader efforts to reengineer and modernize core processing systems, including Authorization and OVN.

This role requires precise endtoend planning, disciplined resource management, and confident communication at the most senior levels of the company. You will lead an outstanding and expanding global engineering organization and will be expected to identify, mentor, and grow the next generation of leaders.

It's all about exceptional leadership, longterm vision, thought leadership, excellence in execution, and superlative communication. If this is who you are, we would welcome the opportunity to talk with you.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Manage and lead a large, globally distributed engineering organization, ensuring teams are engaged, productive, and growing. Provide mentorship and succession planning, act as a force multiplier.
• Implement, deploy, and support missioncritical gateway and access platforms comprising thousands of servers globally, with expectations of zero downtime and the highest levels of cybersecurity.
• Lead the longterm strategy and architecture for nextgeneration access and gateway systems aligned with VisaNet and OVN modernization.
• Leverage AI and automation to drive innovation, accelerate delivery, and improve operational resilience without compromising accuracy, define and track AI metrics that evidence highperforming teams.
• Build strong crossfunctional partnerships with Technology, Product, Client Services, and Risk & Compliance, represent Gateway Services and PPD with credibility at senior executive levels.
• Maintain a total quality mindset, ensuring the right processes, tooling, and metrics are in place for sustainable, scalable delivery.
• Drive execution with urgency, clarity, and accountability in a fastmoving, ambiguous environment.
• Uphold the highest ethical standards and personal accountability.
• Occasional travel to Singapore and other U.S. locations is required.

This is a hybrid position. Expectation of days in office will be confirmed by your hiring manager.

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications

• 12 or more years of work experience with a Bachelor's Degree or at least 10 years of experience with an Advanced degree (e.g. Masters/ MBA/JD/MD) or at least 8 years of work experience with a PhD
• 10+ years of software engineering management experience with progressively increasing scope and responsibility, including leading crossgeographical teams.

Preferred Qualifications

• 15+ years of software engineering experience with deep expertise in missioncritical, highavailability platforms.
• Prior experience in payments or similarly regulated environments operating faulttolerant systems (99.999% availability or higher).
• Proven track record delivering largescale platforms endtoend, including budget ownership, capacity planning, and forecasting.
• Demonstrated, productiongrade use of AI to improve engineering productivity, operational effectiveness, and production support.
• Strong capability in hiring, retaining, and developing top technical talent, including leadership succession.
• Expertise in open systems and technologies (e.g., Linux, TCP/IP, Java, distributed systems) with a strong security foundation.
• Exceptional communication skills across written, verbal, presentation, and negotiation contexts.
• B.S. or M.S. in Computer Science or a related field.

U.S. Applicants Only

The estimated salary range for this positionis $261,900.00 to $ 458,000.00 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.