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 is seeking an accomplished and visionary executive to serve as Senior Director and Statutory Director of Visa Conecta Brazil, Visa's regulated Open Finance and Payment Initiation entity and a critical growth platform for the company's non-card strategy in Brazil.
Visa Conecta represents Visa's execution arm for Open Finance, account-to-account payments, Pix, and emerging payment experiences, serving as a key enabler of Visa's long-term diversification and growth agenda beyond traditional card-based payments. This executive will hold end-to-end accountability for Visa Conecta's business performance, growth strategy, product evolution, regulatory stewardship, and organizational leadership.
The role combines ownership of a rapidly growing business unit with the responsibility of leading the development of innovative products and capabilities from concept through commercialization. As a statutory officer of a regulated financial institution, this leader will serve as a member of the Visa Conecta Steering Committee and will maintain responsibilities before the Central Bank of Brazil, ensuring that business growth, product innovation, governance, operational resilience, and regulatory compliance evolve in a balanced and sustainable manner.
The ideal candidate will combine entrepreneurial mindset, strong business acumen, exceptional product leadership, executive stakeholder management, and the ability to build and lead high-performing teams in a complex and highly regulated environment. Key Responsibilities: Business Unit Leadership & P&L Ownership Own the overall Visa Conecta business strategy, operating model, and long-term growth agenda.
Maintain full accountability for Visa Conecta's P&L, financial performance, revenue growth, investment prioritization, and resource allocation. Develop and execute multi-year growth plans aligned to Visa's non-card strategy in Brazil. Build investment cases and secure organizational support for strategic initiatives. Establish key performance indicators covering financial, operational, product, commercial, and client outcomes.
Ensure Visa Conecta becomes a scalable and sustainable business platform that contributes materially to Visa's future growth objectives. Product Leadership Act as the executive owner of the Visa Conecta product portfolio. Define and prioritize product strategy, roadmap, and investments. Lead the development of new use cases and products from concept to commercialization. Balance client demand, regulatory requirements, platform scalability, and long-term strategic goals.
Ensure world-class product management practices across discovery, prioritization, execution, and launch. Maintain strong awareness of competitive, regulatory, and technology developments impacting the future of Open Finance and payment innovation. Drive the evolution of the platform across Open Finance connectivity, payment initiation, developer experience, merchant capabilities, and new ecosystem services.
Stakeholder Management & Influence Build alignment across regional and global Visa teams, including Product, VAS, Technology, Risk, Legal, Compliance, Finance, Sales and Client Services. Influence cross-functional investment decisions and secure organizational support for strategic initiatives. Manage relationships with key external partners including Open Finance e