Job DescriptionJob Summary:
The Vice President of Product Management for the Integrated Risk Platform leads the strategic vision, design, and execution of our enterprise-grade AI fraud prevention ecosystem. You will build highly scalable, reusable core capabilities that power fraud detection, Anti-Money Laundering (AML), Know Your Customer (KYC) and more workflows. The platform serves a dual-sided ecosystem, protecting both global merchant networks and major financial institutions.
In this role, you will champion a hybrid platform strategy: architecting and combining proprietary, high-performance in-house AI engines, rules management, and case workflows, while strategically integrating extensible third-party data and niche vendor services into a seamless orchestration layer, and a dynamic UX and Agentic workflow.
This is a highly visible, strategic leadership role, requiring a progressive leader, who embraces change and new technologies, collaborates by default, and inspires team members and colleagues to achieve the unthinkable. You will embrace complexity, work well in a matrix, and earn followership from those around you. You're well along the AI adoption curve, and are comfortable experimenting with the latest tools, so you can lead with credibility.
Key Responsibilities:
Strategic Vision & Hybrid Platform Architecture:
- Define the Platform Roadmap: Shape the multi-year product strategy for core AI-driven trust, verification, and risk engines.
- Execute a Hybrid Strategy: Direct the "build vs. buy" framework, driving core proprietary development while ensuring external data vendors plug-and-play into internal systems seamlessly.
- Drive Reusability: Architect modular APIs and shared services configured easily for both merchant risk and bank compliance.
- Lead Product Teams: Direct and mentor a high-performing team of technical product managers and data strategists.
- Integrate and decommission legacy product stack: Lead with a platform mindset, connecting legacy tech stacks and point solutions through a platform delivery mindset, anchoring everything in the context of the platform. Bringing technology, team members and customer rapidly on the journey.
AI, Rules, & Platform Engineering:
- Deploy Advanced AI: Champion the use of machine learning, graph neural networks, and generative AI for real-time anomaly detection. Partner with SME's to solve complex client problems using best-in-breed solutions.
- Design Proprietary Rules Management: Build an intuitive, low-code internal rules engine allowing risk teams to test, deploy, simulate, and update policy logic instantly without engineering sprints.
- Scale Data Infrastructure: Partner with Engineering to ingest, process, and analyze petabytes of global transaction data with millisecond latency.
- Standardize Workflows: Create reusable identity verification (KYC) and transaction monitoring (AML) frameworks.
Operations & Case Management:
- Build Unified Case Management: Own the product lifecycle for a highly tailored in-house investigator UI, optimizing fraud queue routing and workflow automation. Whilst also future proofing for more agentic solutions including fraud ops.
- Incorporate GenAI: Integrate generative AI assistants into case management to summarize complex risk signals and accelerate analyst decision-making.
- Optimize Audit Trails: Ensure all rule changes, AI risk scores, and analyst actions automatically generate regulatory-grade audit trails.
Cross-Functional & Commercial Impact:
- Collaborate Globally: Align with Risk, Legal, Compliance, and Security teams to meet global regulatory requirements (e.g., BSA, GDPR).
- Enable Commercial Teams: Equip product marketing and sales with platform capabilities to solve complex B2B client needs.
Visa requires at least 3 days in office, expectations of these days will be confirmed by your Hiring Manager.
QualificationsBasic 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
Preferred Qualifications:
- 15 or more years of experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD, PhD)
- 10+ Years in Product: Proven track record in product management, specifically within fintech, SaaS, or large-scale cloud platforms.
- 5+ Years in Risk/Identity: Deep domain expertise in fraud detection, AML compliance, or KYC orchestration.
- Orchestration & Vendors: Experience designing vendor marketplaces or orchestration layers that integrate external API data (e.g., credit bureaus, device fingerprinting) into internal systems.
- Operations Software: Experience building enterprise worflows, CRM-style tools, or specialized risk case management interfaces.
- I/ML Scale: Experience shipping commercial machine learning models at scale, ideally inside a high-throughput transaction environment.
- Leadership: Minimum 4 years managing and growing mid-to-senior level product managers.
Technical Skills:
- API & SDK Design: Strong understanding of microservices, developer tools, extensible plugins, and platform abstraction layers.
- Architecture mindset: Ability to understand technical architecture, and the implications of decisions regarding platforms including when to deploy or host software solutions.
- Logic Engines: Deep knowledge of Boolean logic, decision trees, and regression-testing frameworks for rules engines.
- Data Literacy: Proficiency with large data pipelines, predictive modeling, and feature engineering concepts.
- Regulatory Knowledge: Strong familiarity with global financial compliance frameworks and privacy laws
- AI and modern tools: Experience leading teams through adoption of new tools to shorten product lifecycles, and to deliver compelling market leading solutions including adoption of Replit, Figma Make, Claude Code etc
Information for US ApplicantsFor roles located in the US, the estimated salary range for this position is $235,700.00 to $ 412,200.00 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 HoursVaries upon the needs of the department.
Travel RequirementsThis position requires travel 5-10% of the time.
Mental/Physical RequirementsThis 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.
