{"id":4163908,"url":"https://alion.io/job/visa-senior-product-manager-4","title":"Senior Product Manager","company":{"id":83,"name":"Visa","domain":"visa.com","url":"https://alion.io/company/visa","size_band":"5000+","is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"direct","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"Workday","truth_index":{"grade":"B","score":84,"open_postings":135,"ghost_share":0.022,"stale_share":0.541,"repost_share":0.059,"time_to_fill_p50_days":34,"computed_at":"2026-11-12T10:38:37Z"}},"role":"Product","role_family":"Product","seniority":"senior","employment_type":"full_time","work_mode":"hybrid","remote_scope":null,"remote_scope_basis":null,"remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":["Tokyo, Japan"],"countries":["JP"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":null,"salary_estimate":null,"experience_years_min":10,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-11-12T12:59:44Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-11-12","last_verified_at":"2026-11-13T09:00:15Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":1,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":1},"description":"About Us\nVisa 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.\nAt 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.\nJoin Visa and do work that matters - to you, to your community, and to the world. Progress starts with you.\nJob Description\nOverview:\nValue Added Services (VAS) is one of three growth strategies for Visa globally, aimed at diversifying Visa’s revenue with products and solutions that differentiate its network and deliver valuable solutions across other networks.\nAll associated capabilities and services will report into one of the functions in VAS, such as Acceptance Solutions, Issuing Solutions or Risk. These functions together are accountable for both sales and technical enablement of VAS products towards all types of clients such as banks, financial institutions, platformers, merchants, wallet providers, etc. The team coordinates across various business functions in Japan such as Client Relationship Management and Client Services, as well as our global offices, to support the business growth of our clients.\nWhat a Senior Product Manager does at Visa:\nReporting directly to a Director in Value-Added Services Japan, with a dotted reporting line to the regional Acceptance Solutions team in Singapore, this role combines product management with technical client consulting. Positioned as part of a dedicated team to support our flagship client, this role is responsible for shaping, maintaining, and improving Visa Acceptance Solutions products and technology, with hands-on ownership of assigned products and initiatives. Unlike a sales engineering role, this position is less focused on selling solutions and more focused on translating market and client needs into product direction, requirements, enhancements and delivery priorities.\nThis role is positioned as part of a dedicated team to assess enhancement and product intake requests, determining how they align with client needs and Visa capabilities, define requirements, facilitate feature or product development via our global teams, manage dependencies and expectations, and support the go-to-market of new Visa products and capabilities for a specific flagship client in Japan.\nThe role includes direct client engagement as a technical consultant and trusted product specialist. You will help our client to understand how Visa technology can address their business needs, advise on potential adaptations or enhancements, and bring market feedback into product planning. You will also help internal teams understand Visa products from a technology perspective. Success requires strong product judgment, comfort with API-based SaaS solutions, clear bilingual communication, and the ability to navigate complex global organizations while remaining accountable for outcomes in Japan.\nKey responsibilities of the role include:\nOwn all Acceptance Solutions products and initiatives for a specific flagship client, from needs assessment and product intake through launch and ongoing improvement.\nAssess and prioritize enhancement, customization, and product intake requests based on client value, strategic fit, feasibility, risk, and roadmap impact.\nTranslate client needs into clear product requirements, use cases, success criteria, and recommendations for local, regional, and global teams.\nServe as a technical product specialist and trusted consultant for clients and internal stakeholders, including sales, implementation, and client services.\nFacilitate product and feature development by coordinating decisions, dependencies, expectations, and risks across business and technology stakeholders.\nSupport go-to-market planning and product readiness for new products and capabilities, including internal enablement, client materials, and launch coordination.\nTest the API of new Visa products and product features developed by our global teams before instructing about them to the client.\nWhy this is important to Visa:\nAs a business whose success and growth is largely driven by how well our solutions deliver results for our clients, the Senior Product Manager is needed to ensure Visa technology is deployed to solve problems at our flagship client in the right way and maximize value for both our client and Visa together.\nVisa requires at least 3 days in office, expectations of these days will be confirmed by your Hiring Manager.\n\nVisa requires at least 3 days in office, expectations of these days will be confirmed by your Hiring Manager.Qualifications\nWhat you will need:\nMinimum 10 years of experience in product management, technical product management, IT consulting, systems integration, or a related field, with increasing levels of responsibility.\nDemonstrated experience managing technology products, capabilities, enhancement requests, or product roadmaps in a complex global environment.\nStrong literacy in system specifications, solution architecture, and API-based SaaS products.\nGeneral understanding of software development concepts and languages with the ability to run API tests at minimum.\nFluent in both Japanese and English.\nExcellent verbal and written communications, interpersonal skills.\nUnderstanding payment processing infrastructure is a plus.\nBachelor’s degree or equivalent.\nKey Competencies:\nStrong product management judgment, with the ability to balance client value, commercial priorities, technical feasibility, risk, and long-term product strategy.\nExpert level technical literacy and technical consulting capability with a client-first mindset and the ability to identify underlying business needs and recommend practical uses of Visa technology.\nAbility to structure ambiguous enhancement requests into clear requirements, options, decisions, and measurable outcomes.\nAbility to manage expectations and influence decisions across local, regional, and global product, technology, sales, implementations, and client services teams.\nCuriosity about payment technology, digital commerce, SaaS, APIs, and market developments, with a commitment to continuous learning.\nPersonal Characteristics:\nVery client focused.\nExcellent bilingual communication skills, both verbal and written.\nExcellent team-work skills.\nAbility to create rapport with clients to become their trusted subject matter expert (SME).\nCurious, with a drive to continuously learn independently.\nDisciplined to enable consistent delivery of results while managing unexpected demands.\nTrustworthy and possesses the highest standards of ethical conduct and integrity.\nGenuinely cares for and is inclusive of people, supports people’s wellbeing.\nVisa is an EEO Employer\nQualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability or protected veteran status. 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