Senior Director – Global VCA Strategy

Visa

Senior Director of Global VCA Strategy shaping Visa's global strategy and operating model. Collaborating with executive leadership and cross-functional teams to define strategic priorities.

Posted 7/31/2026full-timeSan Francisco • California, Virginia • 🇺🇸 United StatesSenior💰 $179,300 - $369,000 per yearWebsite

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Core Competencies

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Demonstrates expertise in leading global strategic planning, organizational transformation, and performance management within complex, matrixed environments. Proficient in developing actionable roadmaps, governance routines, and aligning cross-functional objectives with broader business priorities.

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Global Strategic PlanningOrganizational TransformationPerformance ManagementCross-Functional LeadershipEnterprise Strategy

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Hard Skills

Business TransformationOperating Model DesignResource AllocationFinancial ServicesGovernance RoutinesStrategic RecommendationsPerformance NarrativesCapability DevelopmentGrowth StrategyMatrixed Organization Experience

Soft Skills

Influencing Decision-MakingStakeholder AlignmentBuilding Trusted RelationshipsLeadership CommunicationContinuous Improvement

Industry Keywords

Management ConsultingCorporate StrategyProfessional ServicesPaymentsFinancial Implications

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Lead VCA global strategic planning and execution governance, defining growth priorities, “big rocks,” and multi-year strategic bets with executive leadership and cross-functional stakeholders, and translating them into actionable roadmaps, performance metrics, governance routines, and accountability structures across global and regional teams.
Lead the redesign and ongoing evolution of the global VCA operating model, ensuring the organization is structured to deliver against client needs, commercial priorities, regional growth ambitions, profitability objectives, and scalable delivery models.
Define the future-state organizational structure for VCA, including leadership roles, governance forums, decision rights, reporting lines, spans and layers, accountability models, and interfaces with regional teams and adjacent Visa functions.
Define and govern the global VCA resource and location strategy, including headcount planning, workforce allocation, hiring priorities, capability needs, geographic presence, and investment trade-offs across regions, markets, and practices, ensuring alignment with client demand, talent availability, delivery requirements, financial plans, and strategic growth priorities.
Lead the definition and governance of cross-functional objectives, targets, and success metrics across VCA, translating strategic priorities into measurable outcomes, clear ownership, execution milestones, accountability routines, and direct alignment with broader Visa and VCA objectives.
Orchestrate cross-functional and regional alignment across VCA and Visa, building trusted senior stakeholder relationships to ensure VCA’s strategy, OKRs, resource plans, and operating model decisions are integrated with Visa’s broader priorities, regional realities, and execution requirements.
Lead the Quarterly Business Review process, including executive agenda setting, performance narrative, regional and functional input synthesis, progress against OKRs, identification of risks and dependencies, and follow-through on leadership decisions.
Create frameworks to evaluate strategic bets and investment priorities, including business impact, financial implications, capability requirements, sequencing, market readiness, risks, and execution feasibility.
Lead organizational effectiveness and continuous improvement efforts across VCA, identifying opportunities to simplify operating routines, strengthen governance, clarify accountabilities, scale delivery models, improve productivity, enhance strategic planning and reporting, support better leadership decision-making, and increase business impact.
Lead special strategic initiatives on behalf of VCA leadership, including growth acceleration, profitability improvement, capability development, organizational transformation, performance management, and cross-functional transformation efforts.

Requirements

What you’ll need

12 or more years of work experience with a Bachelor’s Degree or at least 10 years of work experience with an Advanced degree (e.g. Masters/MBA/JD/MD), or a minimum of 5 years of work experience with a PhD.
15 or more years of experience with a Bachelor’s Degree or 12 years of experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, or MD), PhD with 9+ years of experience
Bachelor’s degree required, ideally in business administration, economics, engineering, finance, mathematics, science, or another quantitative or analytical discipline from a top-tier institution.
12-18+ years of relevant experience in management consulting, corporate strategy, business transformation, financial services, payments, technology, professional services, or a related strategic function.
Proven experience leading or materially contributing to enterprise strategy, global business planning, operating model design, organizational transformation, or performance management in a complex, matrixed organization.
Demonstrated experience working with senior executives and cross-functional leadership teams, including the ability to influence decision-making and align stakeholders across regions, functions, and business units.
Strong understanding of consulting, professional services, or advisory business models, including growth strategy, capability development, workforce leverage, delivery models, productivity, resource allocation, and profitability drivers.
Experience developing executive-level materials, strategic recommendations, business cases, governance routines, and performance narratives for senior leadership forums.

Benefits

Comp & perks

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