Sr Manager, Visa Accept Product Manager

About the role

The Sr. Product Manager, Visa Accept SDK, is responsible for defining and executing the technical product strategy for Visa’s merchant acceptance SDKs, APIs, and developer platforms. This role drives the end-to-end product lifecycle, from technical requirements definition and solution architecture through implementation, commercialization, and global deployment. The position requires deep collaboration with Engineering, Architecture, Security, Solutioning, Developer Experience, and Regional Product teams to deliver scalable, secure, and developer-friendly acceptance capabilities.

The ideal candidate combines strong product management expertise with a solid understanding of payment technology, APIs, SDK development, mobile and web integration patterns, tokenization, authentication, merchant onboarding, and transaction processing. This individual will identify new product opportunities, define platform capabilities, establish technical roadmaps, and ensure solutions meet the needs of developers, partners, fintech's, merchants, acquirers, and wallet providers.

All roles require digital fluency, including the ability to leverage emerging technologies such as Generative AI tools (e.g., Microsoft Copilot, ChatGPT) to accelerate product development, technical documentation, developer enablement, and operational efficiency.

Key Responsibilities

• Define and execute the technical product strategy and roadmap for Visa Accept SDKs, APIs, and developer platform services.
• Own the end-to-end product lifecycle, including requirements gathering, technical design reviews, development prioritization, testing, launch readiness, and post-launch optimization.
• Partner closely with Engineering and Architecture teams to design scalable, secure, and resilient SDK frameworks supporting merchant acceptance use cases across multiple channels and markets.
• Translate business, technical, and regulatory requirements into detailed product specifications, API requirements, SDK capabilities, and developer experience enhancements.
• Drive platform capabilities supporting merchant onboarding, credential management, tokenization, authentication, risk controls, settlement, reporting, and transaction processing.
• Establish and maintain SDK architecture standards, versioning strategies, backward compatibility requirements, and release management processes.
• Collaborate with solution architects, implementation teams, and external partners to support integrations with acquirers, payment facilitators, processors, ISVs, fintech's, wallets, and merchant platforms.
• Define API contracts, developer workflows, reference architectures, and integration patterns to simplify implementation and accelerate adoption.
• Use data, telemetry, developer feedback, and operational metrics to prioritize enhancements and improve SDK performance, reliability, and adoption.
• Partner with Security, Compliance, and Risk teams to ensure platform adherence to Visa, regulatory, privacy, and industry standards.
• Develop technical business cases and investment proposals for new platform capabilities, balancing customer needs, engineering complexity, and commercial objectives.
• Create and maintain developer-facing assets including technical documentation, implementation guides, sample applications, SDK release notes, and developer enablement materials.
• Monitor emerging technologies, payment industry trends, AI-driven development practices, and competitor platforms to identify opportunities for innovation and platform differentiation.

Visa requires at least 3 days in office, expectations of these days will be confirmed by your Hiring Manager.

Basic Qualifications

• 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

Preferred Qualifications

- 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

• Experience in roles such as product manager, product owner, business process analyst, or sales operations.
• Experience in applying Agile principles across design, development, testing, and product management.
• Experience in developing software capabilities to support sales, service, or customer relationship management functions.
• Experience in multi-tasking, organizing, managing, and implementing complex projects directly or through supervision.
• Experience in cross-functional collaboration with systems, partner product, and engineering teams.
• Experience managing API, SDK, platform, or developer-focused products
• Strong understanding of payment processing, merchant acquiring, card-not-present and card-present transaction flows.
• Knowledge of REST APIs, mobile SDKs (iOS/Android), web SDKs, authentication protocols, tokenization, and cloud-native architectures.
• Familiarity with payment ecosystems including merchants, acquirers, processors, payment facilitators, gateways, wallets, and fintech platforms.
• Ability to work effectively with engineering teams and communicate complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Experience defining developer experience (DX) strategies and driving adoption of technical platforms at scale.
• Knowledge of software development methodologies, CI/CD practices, observability, API lifecycle management, and platform governance.
• Agile certifications such as CSM and CSPO, or their equivalent.
• Experience in identifying, assessing, and managing tradeoffs in product development.
• Experience in identifying points of failure and formulating error-handling approaches for product resiliency.

Pay and benefits

For roles located in the US, the estimated salary range for this position is $169,100.00 to $ 270,800.00 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.

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.