Senior Manager, Data Science

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 outstandingly rich data set that spans more than 3 billion cards globally and collects 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 Senior Managers who are equally passionate about the opportunity to use Visa’s rich data to solve meaningful business problems. You will join one of the Data Science focus areas supporting an internal product and/or function at Visa, with a rotational opportunity within Data Science to gain broad exposure to Visa’s business.Essential FunctionsLead a team of analysts within Global Data Science, including project oversight, mentoring, and professional developmentWork with internal and external partners to understand their strategic business questions and lead project scoping and design to answer those questions by using Visa’s dataBe an out-of-the-box problem solver who is passionate about brainstorming innovative ways to use our unique data to answer business problemsConnect with clients to understand the challenges they face and convince them with dataExtract and understand data to form an opinion on how to best help our clients and derive relevant insightsDevelop visualizations to provide sophisticated analyses accessible to a broad audienceFind opportunities to craft products out of analyses that are suitable for multiple clientsUse big data and cutting-edge data mining techniques, provide thought leadership in analytic techniques and business applications to unlock the value of Visa’s unique data setSynthesize ideas/proposals in writing and engage in productive discussions with external or internal partnersMine and analyze data from company databases to drive optimization and improvement of product, marketing techniques and business strategies for Visa and its clientsAssess the efficiency and accuracy of new data sources and data gathering techniquesDevelop custom data models and algorithms to apply to data setsUse predictive modeling to increase and optimize customer experiences, revenue generation, data insights, advertising targeting, and other business outcomesDevelop processes and tools to supervise and analyze model performance and data accuracyBroad knowledge across the entire data science lifecycle, including data engineering, statistics and governanceProvide mentorship in modern analytic techniques in keeping with market trends, client needs and emerging techniquesCoordinate and lead multiple data science projects with diverse multi-functional partnersThis is a hybrid position. Expectation of days in office will be confirmed by your hiring manager.