Sr. Manager, Data Science
Company: Visa Inc.
Location: Washington
Posted on: March 4, 2025
Job Description:
To ensure that Visa's payment technology is truly available to
everyone, everywhere requires the success of our key bank or
merchant partners and internal business units. The Global Data
Science group supports these partners by using our extraordinarily
rich data set that spans more than 3 billion cards globally and
captures more than 100 billion transactions in a single year. Our
focus lies on building creative solutions that have an immediate
impact on the business of our highly analytical partners. We work
in complementary teams comprising members from Data Science and
various groups at Visa. To support our rapidly growing group we are
looking for Data Scientists who are equally passionate about the
opportunity to use Visa's rich data to tackle meaningful business
problems.Essential Functions
- Lead a team of analysts within North American Data Science,
including project oversight, coaching and professional
development.
- Work with internal/external clients to understand their
strategic business questions and lead project scoping/design to
answer those questions by leveraging Visa's data.
- Develop propensity, segmentation and other predictive models to
drive business impact.
- Proactively engage with clients and Visa client leadership in
regular strategic & planning discussions to cultivate and manage a
pipeline of work with clients.
- Develop frameworks, approaches, solutions and recommendations
that effectively and efficiently address the most impactful
opportunities and challenges.
- Produce insights and analyses to improve client performance,
drive understanding of client issues and provide strategic guidance
for client priorities across the payment P&L.
- Ideal candidate will have payments and management consulting
experience.
- Broad knowledge across the entire data science lifecycle,
including data engineering, statistics and governance.
- Provide guidance in modern analytic techniques and business
applications to unlock the value of Visa's unique data set, in
keeping with market trends, client needs and emerging
techniques.
- Organize and manage multiple data science projects with diverse
cross-functional stakeholders.
- Ability to influence and negotiate with senior executives.This
is a hybrid position. Expectation of days in office will be
confirmed by your hiring manager.Basic Qualification
- 8 or more years of relevant work experience with a Bachelor
Degree or at least 5 years of experience with an Advanced Degree
(e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD) or 2 years of work experience with a
PhD.
- Experience leading teams of data scientists in machine learning
projects.
- Hands-on expertise with modern distributed systems, including
both Hadoop/SQL and Apache Spark.
- Hands-on expertise with one or more data analytics/programming
tools such as Python.
- Hands-on expertise in the application of predictive modeling
and machine learning techniques.Preferred Qualification
- 9 or more years of relevant work experience with a Bachelor
Degree or 7 or more relevant years of experience with an Advanced
Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD) or 3 or more years of experience
with a PhD.
- 3+ years of working in payments industry (bank, credit union,
Fintech) or management-consulting firm.
- Demonstrated knowledge of software development, MLOps or data
product development.
- Excellent communication, story-telling and presentation
skills.
- Competence in Excel, PowerPoint and Tableau.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.U.S. APPLICANTS ONLY:
The estimated salary range for a new hire into this position is
148,300 to 253,200 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.
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