Product Analyst

Visa - Highlands Ranch, CO

Full-time - Entry Level

Hybrid - Highlands Ranch, CO

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About the position

DPS offers processing solutions to financial institutions. Our focus is to maximize the value we deliver within the ever-changing payments landscape. Our vision is to enable our clients to focus on innovation, customer experience and differentiating products/services by providing best-in-class secure, robust, scalable, and reliable issuer processing products and services. The Associate Product Analyst's primary responsibility is to build products and solutions that deliver delightful experiences with substantial value propositions across the payments ecosystem. To be successful, the individual must maintain a high level of coordination and collaboration with multiple cross-functional stakeholder teams globally. The ideal person for this role should have a passion for innovation in payments, technology, and product management, be detail-oriented, and have the ability to drive results within a complex environment. This Associate Product Analyst is an individual contributor and will report to the Sr. Director, Product Management and will join a team of Product Analysts/Managers working together to change the way Visa maximizes value for our clients and stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Work closely with clients, partners, business unit leaders, engineering, architects, user experience and global cross-functional counterparts to build, iterate and refine new issuer processing solutions.
• Actively participate in feature refinement sessions to gain understanding of new features and provide input on potential areas of impact.
• Refine an assigned feature by collaborating with stakeholders, performing market research and analyzing existing solutions to ensure business impacts are identified and accounted for.
• Ensure solutions are extensible to all clients and can serve multiple use cases whenever possible.
• Play the role of a Product Owner on an agile scrum team, bringing product vision, customer insights and feedback to the team, setting the business context.
• Ensure an agile mindset in the team delivery.
• Decompose features into user stories and support development activities.
• Actively manage and prioritize team backlog and evaluate changing business/market conditions and impact to priorities.
• Communicate status updates in a transparent manner with key stakeholders on a frequent basis.
• Collaborate with external and internal stakeholders to effectively build, launch, commercialize and communicate new product features.
• Deliver product/feature demos that communicate product value proposition, features and benefits.
• Own the feature through the development lifecycle till client consumption in production.
• Appropriately prioritize defects based on impact and provide updates to stakeholders on a frequent basis.
• Serve as an expert in assigned areas of product to all internal and external stakeholders, both in communicating updates and soliciting feedback and new ideas to drive better products.
• Support and communicate an overall product vision to both internal and external stakeholders and how it relates to the achievement of long-term business objectives.
• Demonstrate leadership principles by communicating openly, collaborating effectively, enabling, and inspiring others, and excelling with partners.

Requirements

• 2 or more years of work experience with a Bachelor's Degree or an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD, or PhD).
• 3 or more years of work experience with a Bachelor's Degree or more than 2 years of work experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD).
• 2+ years of experience in technical or business product management.
• Highly motivated team member who cultivates effective relationships with different levels of the organization, clients, and partners to accomplish shared business priorities.
• Prior experience working within an agile product development environment.
• Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) experience is preferred but not required.
• Visa and financial/payment industry knowledge is a plus, but not required.
• Solid knowledge of how products are developed from a technical standpoint.
• Aptitude to collaborate with engineering teams to build robust, reliable, and scalable payment solutions.
• Creative problem-solving skills with the ability to work independently and manage multiple priorities.
• Strong team player, self-motivated and the ability to work independently at coordinating cross-functional activities, obtain buy-in and elevate issues at critical junctures appropriately.
• Critical thinker with strong analytical skills to achieve goals in an innovative and fast-paced environment.
• Organizational and leadership abilities to influence, negotiate and drive results.
• Excellent communication skills, including verbal, written and presentation necessary.

Nice-to-haves

• Prior experience in the financial services or payments industry.
• Experience with product management tools and methodologies.
• Familiarity with user experience design principles.

Benefits

• Medical
• Dental
• Vision
• 401 (k)
• FSA/HSA
• Life Insurance
• Paid Time Off
• Wellness Program