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The Associate will be a member of Visa's North America (NA) Strategy Team, which is responsible for business strategy development, coordination, and planning for the North America region. The strategy team works closely with product, functional and organizational leaders for the North America region. NA is Visa’s largest region and faces some of the most complex and interesting challenges in the payments industry today. Many of the team’s projects involve working on some of the most pressing business and strategic challenges and opportunities facing the North American business.

Essential Functions:

• Lead or support workstreams on projects related to Visa Inc.'s North America strategy, business development, and/or initiatives, including collaborating with business lines across Regional and Functional areas
• Work within cross-functional and cross-regional project teams on a range of projects
• Build and maintain North America strategic intelligence
• Communicate and generate support for recommendations among business leaders across the organization
• Participate in continuous training with the North America Strategy Team

This role will be based in the San Francisco Bay Area and the North America strategy team is based in Visa’s downtown San Francisco office and is in-office 3x a week.

This is a hybrid position. Hybrid employees can alternate time between both remote and office. Employees in hybrid roles are expected to work from the office 2-3 set days a week (determined by leadership/site), with a general guidepost of being in the office 50% or more of the time based on business needs.

• 2 years of work experience with a Bachelor’s Degree or an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD, or PhD)

• Typically requires 2+ years of experience in management consulting, corporate strategy, investment banking or a similar role
• Payments industry experience is a plus, but not required
• Superior (and demonstrable) analytical and problem solving skills
• Ability to work independently within a complex and often ambiguous environment
• Ability to develop content independently and prioritize work flow with limited supervision
• Ability to handle multiple project workstreams, with proven success in synthesizing large data sets related to a wide variety of functional business problems
• Eagerness to work in teams with personnel of all levels to accomplish project objectives
• Personal presence and ability to clearly communicate compelling messages in written and verbal communications
• Strong interpersonal and leadership skills to build credibility as a peer with Global Functions and Regions
• Existing proficiency in PowerPoint and Excel and a strong willingness and ability to keep improving

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 protected veteran status. Visa will also consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with EEOC guidelines and applicable local law.

Visa will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with applicable local law, including the requirements of Article 49 of the San Francisco Police Code.