Senior Technical Program Manager

Technical Program Manager Engineering Strategy & Operations

You make an engineering organization smarter, faster, and more honest by discovering what the data reveals, building the systems that make it visible, and framing the narrative that drives action.

The Role

You sit at the intersection of engineering, business, and leadership. You see strategic questions "Can we deliver this by Q3?" "Is our AI transformation actually working?" "Where are we bleeding capacity?" and you go build the answer. Dashboards, models, queries, analysis whatever weapon fits. Then you frame the compelling narrative that makes leadership act on it.

You're a strategic operator who builds. Data and automation are your tools not your job title.

What You'll Do

Discover and build. Mine engineering metrics (velocity, capacity, defect trends, release health) and business signals (cost, allocation, strategic alignment) to surface insights others miss. Then build the dashboards, models, and analytics yourself that make those insights persistent and observable to the org.

Own the narrative. Author executive communications business reviews, metrics packages, strategy recommendations that synthesize data + context + judgment into a clear, compelling case. You don't report numbers. You frame the story that drives the decision.

Drive planning intelligence. Capacity analysis, delivery forecasting, allocation modeling. You make commitments honest by grounding them in live data. When the math doesn't work, you flag it early and drive the hard conversation.

Understand and shape the AI transformation. We're adopting an agentic development lifecycle (ADLC). You help the team understand what's working defining metrics, building tracking, analyzing where AI is accelerating us and where we need to improve. There's no playbook. You create it.

Design operating systems. Release criteria, prioritization frameworks, triage cadences, financial tracking. Just enough structure to create predictability without bureaucracy.

Automate the toil. If a human is doing it manually and repeatedly, you're building the automation that eliminates it.

Who You Are

• A strategist who builds. You think at the altitude of "what does leadership need to decide?" then you go build the thing that enables it.
• Entrepreneurial. You've operated in ambiguity, built without a playbook, and moved fast without waiting for permission. You take calculated risks, including challenging policies that don't serve the outcome.
• A builder. V1 comes from your hands the dashboard, the model, the query, the deck. You're never waiting for someone else to pull the data.
• A narrator. You synthesize data into the compelling story that makes a VP say "now I get it here's what we do next."
• Technically grounded. You understand CI/CD, release strategies, and engineering workflows well enough to ask the right questions and know when someone's hand-waving.
• Business-savvy. Budget allocation, P&L, strategic priorities you connect engineering performance to business outcomes because that's where the best insights live.

Stand Out By...

• Showing something you built and explaining the decision it drove
• Telling us about an insight you discovered that wasn't on anyone's radar
• Having opinions about how AI changes engineering operations and metrics
• Describing a time you challenged something that wasn't working and replaced it

The Environment

VERA team at Visa. We move fast. We're deep in an AI transformation (ADLC) and changing how products are built. We value people who discover, build, and drive over people who track, report, and align.

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

Qualifications

Required:

• Senior TPM-level leadership driving outcomes across teams, influencing without authority
• Hands-on data fluency you've personally built dashboards (Power BI, Tableau, Looker), written complex queries, designed metrics frameworks that drove decisions
• Engineering operations experience release management, capacity planning, delivery forecasting, or engineering metrics for a shipping software org
• Strategic communication executive narratives that synthesized data + judgment into a compelling case
• Technical grounding CI/CD, release processes, quality engineering, SDLC

Preferred:

• Payments, fintech, or high-availability environments
• Comfort with AI-assisted development workflows or strong curiosity to learn
• Financial management exposure budgets, cost modeling, P&L tracking
• Engineering tools: Jira, GitHub, Azure DevOps, Grafana, or similar

U.S. Applicants Only

The estimated salary range for this position is $152,200 to $243,700 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.