Company Description

Visa is a world leader in payments and technology, with over 259 billion payments transactions flowing safely between consumers, merchants, financial institutions, and government entities in 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 while driven by a common purpose – to uplift everyone, everywhere by being the best way to pay and be paid.

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Job Description

Visa’s purpose is to uplift everyone, everywhere by being the best way to pay and be paid. We power the digital economy, making payments and money movement simpler, safer, faster, and more accessible for all. And in doing so, we drive economic growth and prosperity for individuals, communities, and businesses around the world.

With the goal of positively shaping the business and regulatory environment within which Visa operates, we are seeking a strategic and forward-thinking Vice President, Global Corporate Affairs Communications to lead our global reputation management and stakeholder engagement by:

Partnering closely with the Government Engagement and Social Impact & Sustainability teams (including Visa Foundation) to shape Visa’s global purpose narrative for our key stakeholders in support of communications and events across our markets.
Acting as a trusted collaborator and critical connection point among regional corporate affairs comms colleagues, providing streamlined solutions to support them in driving results for their respective regions.
Serving as a key advisor to Visa Vice Chair, Chief People & Administrative Officer and overseeing internal and external executive communications.

The ideal candidate is a sophisticated corporate affairs professional with a keen ability to build trust, connect dots, bridge siloes, and manage by influence to help corporate affairs colleagues around the world meet shared objectives. This leader will report to the SVP, Enterprise and Corporate Affairs Communications & Events, and will be a member of the Global Communications Leadership Team.

The successful candidate will:

Work at a global scale to proactively build and defend Visa’s reputation to support our regulatory efforts around the world in order to safeguard Visa’s long-term business success.
Partner closely with Social Impact & Sustainability (SI&S) and GE to build the wider corporate affairs narrative and collectively develop creative ways of telling Visa’s larger story.
Partner closely with the Government Engagement team on key issues identification to inform the development of central message frameworks that can be localized and tailored for use in our 100+ country markets.
Lead the development and execution of Visa Vice Chair’s narrative communications, including comprehensive corporate storytelling, collateral, media and social campaigns, and stakeholder education delivered via a mix of internal and external channels including marquis global events, e.g., APEC, IMF/World Bank meetings, World Economic Forum/Davos.
Oversee the development and execution of the internal and external narrative and communications for SVP, Social Impact & Sustainability and Chief Sustainability Officer and key Social Impact campaigns.
Partner with regional communications leads to provide assets for localizing the global corporate affairs narrative through messaging frameworks, story banks and campaign toolkits.
Supervise a core team of three professionals as well as agency partners, while managing a wide range of stakeholders by influence across functions and geographies.

This is a hybrid position. Expectation of days in office will be confirmed by your hiring manager.

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications • 12 or more years of work experience with a bachelor’s Degree or at least 10 years of experience with an Advanced degree (e.g. Masters/ MBA/JD/MD) or at least 8 years of work experience with a PhD. • Proven ability to distill complexity into actionable strategy. • Excellent persuasive written and verbal communications skills, including interpersonal and presentation skills, experience in social/digital storytelling. • Proven track record leading both internal and external communication programs and advising C-suite executives on executive communications. • Ability to communicate across diverse audiences and at all levels to build and nurture cross-functional relationships and foster partnerships. • Self-starter and strong problem solver with ability to think ahead, engage proactively and take initiative. • Experience in working effectively in a matrixed environment and across organizational boundaries. • Proven track record of managing staff and or/agency teams to achieve measurable results. Preferred Qualifications • 15 or more years of communications work experience with a Bachelor’s Degree or at least 10 years of experience with an Advanced degree (e.g., Masters/MBA/JD/MD) or at least 8 years of work experience with a PhD. • Strong understanding of regulatory dynamics and/or experience in government affairs. • Experience in financial services, payments, or technology sectors. • International work experience with understanding of diverse cultural contexts.

Additional Information

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.