Sr. Manager, Emerging Markets - Acceptance Solutions

Senior Manager, Acceptance Solutions Sales Specialist

Visa Acceptance Solutions (VAS) is seeking a consultative, commercially driven, and results-oriented Senior Manager, Acceptance Solutions Sales Specialist focused on Emerging Commerce & Regulated Digital Verticals.

This role will be responsible for helping drive bookings, revenue, and pipeline growth across a portfolio of rapidly evolving merchant segments, including digital gaming, online wagering, daily fantasy sports, telehealth, digital healthcare, subscription wellness, debt repayment, and other emerging commerce verticals. These industries often present unique payment acceptance, fraud, dispute management, compliance, risk, and customer experience considerations, creating opportunities for Visa to deliver differentiated value through the Visa Acceptance Solutions portfolio.

The ideal candidate will bring strong enterprise sales, solutioning, and client engagement experience, along with a practical understanding of the payments ecosystem and the ability to navigate complex merchant environments. This individual should be able to understand client business models, identify payment-related pain points, and translate Visa Acceptance Solutions capabilities into clear, outcome-oriented value propositions.

The Senior Manager will work closely with Visa generalist sellers, account teams, sales engineers, product specialists, product management, commercialization, legal, risk, finance, marketing, and implementation teams to identify opportunities, support client-facing engagements, progress opportunities through the sales cycle, and provide market feedback that improves future sales motions.

The successful candidate will have a demonstrated track record of enterprise sales success, strong executive communication skills, and the ability to collaborate effectively in a highly matrixed organization.

Key Responsibilities:

• Drive and support bookings, revenue, and pipeline targets for Visa Acceptance Solutions across assigned Emerging Commerce & Regulated Digital Vertical segments.
• Prospect, qualify, advance, negotiate, and close sales opportunities across assigned accounts and prospect lists.
• Develop account-specific and opportunity-specific sales plans that align client business needs with Visa Acceptance Solutions capabilities.
• Maintain timely and accurate opportunity, pipeline, and forecast updates in Microsoft Dynamics.
• Lead and support client-facing conversations with payment leaders, risk teams, operations stakeholders, product owners, and senior business decision-makers.
• Translate client challenges into practical solution recommendations across payment acceptance, fraud, disputes, authorization performance, tokenization, and customer experience.
• Prepare and deliver proposals, presentations, discovery sessions, workshops, and business cases that clearly articulate value and expected outcomes.
• Ensure a high level of client and prospect satisfaction through proactive outreach, relevant insights, and clear follow-up communications.
• Build and maintain working knowledge of emerging commerce segments, including digital gaming, online wagering, daily fantasy sports, telehealth, digital healthcare, subscription wellness, debt repayment, and related high-growth merchant categories.
• Monitor relevant market trends, competitive developments, merchant needs, and regulatory or compliance considerations impacting assigned verticals.
• Share client and market feedback with internal partners to support refinement of sales plays, enablement materials, and commercialization priorities.
• Partner with sales engineers, product specialists, legal, finance, risk, commercialization, and implementation resources to support complex sales cycles.
• Coordinate internal resources to prepare for client meetings, solution demonstrations, technical validation, pricing discussions, and contract negotiations.
• Support the structuring and negotiation of enterprise agreements that meet client needs while supporting Visa business objectives.
• Collaborate closely with generalist account executives and account managers to identify, develop, and progress opportunities within assigned client portfolios.
• Work with product, marketing, and commercialization teams to improve industry messaging, sales collateral, and go-to-market execution.
• Contribute to sales enablement, market insights, and client success stories that help increase awareness and adoption of VAS priorities.
• Participate in relevant industry conferences, client meetings, trade events, and partner conversations to build awareness of Visa Acceptance Solutions.
• Develop relationships with ecosystem participants such as merchants, acquirers, payment facilitators, gateways, technology platforms, processors, and solution partners.
• Represent Visa professionally in client and industry settings while escalating sensitive risk, compliance, or regulatory issues to appropriate internal teams.

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

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.

Information for US Applicants

For roles located in the US, the estimated salary range for this position is $205,700 to $387,900 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.