Visa is a world leader in digital payments, facilitating more than 215 billion payments transactions between consumers, merchants, financial institutions and government entities across more than 200 countries and territories each year. Our mission is to connect the world through the most innovative, convenient, reliable and secure payments network, enabling individuals, businesses and economies to thrive.

When you join Visa, you join a culture of purpose and belonging – where your growth is priority, your identity is embraced, and the work you do matters. We believe that economies that include everyone everywhere, uplift everyone everywhere. Your work will have a direct impact on billions of people around the world – helping unlock financial access to enable the future of money movement.

Join Visa: A Network Working for Everyone.

Are you a designer, builder, and change agent? Are you passionate about creating a high-performance growth culture? Are you motivated by a diverse and inclusive environment that unleashes the potential in everyone, everywhere?

Come join the Global Talent team as we help write a new story for Visa and reimagine the world of work.

As Visa works to create a future where everyone can thrive, the Global Talent team is working to ensure that Visa has the capabilities, talent and culture to enable the company and its employees, everywhere, to thrive. We need subject matter expertise, experience, passion, creativity, and grit to collaborate with others to build the right talent strategies for Visa and roll up our sleeves to roll them out, driving impact and outcomes for our business and our people.

The Senior Talent Partner serves as a key member of Visa’s Global Talent organization, building and delivering a portfolio of talent and organization performance solutions in support of our North America and Global Markets organisation.

This role will drive change and ensure that the Talent organization has the processes, products and services that will support Visa’s overall business strategy in developing, acquiring the right capabilities, and that has the right environment and leadership in which to succeed. The Talent Partner will work closely to advice and work with the People Business Partners, top business leaders including Group President of Global Markets and Regional President of North America, and other centers of excellence, including Inclusion & Diversity, Talent Management, Talent Acquisition, and Visa University.

Talent Partners work closely with business stakeholders and leadership within the Talent Centers of Excellence, to ensure that solutions are developed and shaped that meet business, regional and functional needs, and support in driving business value, at the same time as leveraging and supporting organization wide culture and imperatives.

The role reports to the SVP, Global Talent and will be a key member of the Global Talent Leadership team

Essential Functions:

• Understand the business strategy and set a tailored talent strategy , build a framework for a regular review of talent, advise on and deliver talent programs for high priority talent pools (e.g. top, emerging, under-represented, technical) and drive the strategic movement of key talent across the organization. Provide SME guidance, education, and change management to enable quality execution and consistency of processes set by the global Talent team
• Closely integrate into the organization and leverage employee listening strategies to understand areas of challenge, and opportunities to accelerate performance.
• As key member of Global Talent team, provide perspective and co-develop processes and programs for talent assessment, coaching, succession planning, career development, and mobility.
• Lead succession planning efforts as a key driver of the organization and talent review process, in partnership with People Business Partners and business leadership; create development plans for key talent and succession candidates identified during the Organization & Talent Review process; monitor progress against plans and provide accountability for on-time completion, and report progress and insights to leadership and global Talent team
• Conduct organizational assessments & diagnostics, using defined methodologies to identify critical issues and root causes and implementing appropriate solutions to improve organization effectiveness
• Assist in the design and deployment of proven organization change management principles and methodology to support large scale organizational change initiatives
• Partner with Visa University to identify the learning needs of key cohorts of talent and serve as a design consultant to the programs; nominate individuals for participation

Basic Qualifications:

• 12 years of work experience with a bachelor’s degree; 10 years of work experience with an Advanced degree (e.g. Masters/MBA /JD/MD); or a minimum of 5 years of work experience with a PhD

Preferred Qualifications:

• Minimum of 12 - 15 years of progressive experience in field of top talent development or related fields of leadership development, talent management, or organization development. Preferred HR business partner experience.
• Coaching certification preferred
• Strong knowledge of and deep functional expertise in contemporary talent management practices
• Proven ability to hold leaders accountable for developing talent. Knows bench-strength of their team, identifies what is needed to deliver results, and assesses individuals accordingly. Critically evaluates talent and provides timely and constructive feedback.
• Self-directed, process-oriented individual with strong business acumen and ability to manage multiple projects and priorities. Strong program / project management skills preferred.
• Highly pragmatic style. Easily adapts to ambiguity, changes in strategy, or conflicting information to drive timely decisions and a course of action
• Thorough and detailed analysis of problems to produce optimal decisions focused on very specific goals. Seeks out others as sources of data, ideas, and help. Recognizes the broader issues to simplify analyses and execute timely decisions or actions. Challenges HR Business Partners and business leaders to view issues from multiple perspectives and continuously develop.
• Proven ability to lead large scale and global change efforts. Anticipates barriers to change and directly addresses any resistance.
• Develops strong relationships, influences key stakeholders, and builds consensus around decision-making and problem-solving. Recognizes which stakeholders hold influence to drive resolution and move work forward.
• Removes barriers to effective communication by being open and working across organizational boundaries. Establishes strong partnerships and share best practices within and outside of the Global Markets and North America team.
• Strong oral/written communication skills.
• Speaks English fluently, and minimum one other language of the region (if needed)
• Has a high intercultural sensitivity and can apply global concepts locally

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.