Senior Manager, Innovation, Asia Pacific

About Us
Visa is a world leader in payments technology, facilitating transactions between consumers, merchants, financial institutions and government entities across more than 200 countries and territories, dedicated to uplifting everyone, everywhere by being the best way to pay and be paid.

At Visa, you'll have the opportunity to create impact at scale — tackling meaningful challenges, growing your skills and seeing your contributions impact lives around the world.

Join Visa and do work that matters – to you, to your community, and to the world. Progress starts with you.

Job Description

Team Summary:

Visa’s Asia Pacific Innovation team develops new product opportunities across payments, commerce, and emerging technology. The team works with Product, Design, Technology, Strategy, Partnerships, and markets to identify client problems, shape new concepts, test them quickly, and move the strongest ideas toward pilot and scale.

This role will help build Visa’s product innovation engine in Asia Pacific. We are looking for a hands-on operator who can bring start-up pace, strong product thinking, and practical execution discipline into a corporate environment.

The role is based in Singapore and reports to the Senior Director, Head of Innovation, Asia Pacific.

What the Senior Manager, Innovation will do:

• Run 0-1 product innovation sprints from problem framing to concept, prototype, validation, pilot planning, and handoff.
• Turn client needs, market signals, and emerging technology trends into clear product opportunities.
• Build problem statements, value propositions, customer journeys, concept notes, pitch materials, and pilot plans.
• Coordinate cross-functional working teams across Product, Design, Technology, Strategy, Partnerships, and markets.
• Drive rapid research, prototyping, testing, and synthesis to help teams make faster go / no-go decisions.
• Keep workstreams moving with clear timelines, owners, outputs, and next steps.
• Support client and partner conversations by shaping sharp narratives, demos, and practical recommendations.
• Bring structure without slowing the work down.

Why this role matters:

Visa needs to move faster from insight to validated product opportunity. This role will help create the operating muscle to test ideas quickly, focus on the strongest bets, and push promising concepts toward real business outcomes.

Qualifications

What we are looking for:

• 10+ years of experience in product innovation, venture building, start-ups, fintech, payments, digital commerce, strategy, consulting, or technology-led growth.
• Strong 0-1 experience, ideally building, testing, launching, or scaling new products, propositions, ventures, or business models.
• Experience running sprints, workshops, discovery, prototyping, validation, MVP development, or pilot planning.
• Comfortable working in ambiguity and moving fast without waiting for perfect information.
• Strong commercial judgment, with the ability to tell the difference between an interesting idea and a useful business opportunity.
• Strong product storytelling skills, including the ability to turn complex capabilities into simple, client-facing narratives.
• Hands-on execution style. Comfortable whiteboarding, writing, testing, chasing inputs, aligning stakeholders, and unblocking work.
• Strong project management discipline, with the ability to manage multiple stakeholders and keep momentum.
• Experience working in or with large corporates is a strong plus.
• Experience and strong evidence of interest in payments, fintech, platforms, AI, digital commerce, wallets, data, or emerging technology specifically agentic commerce and stablecoins is strongly preferred.
• Background in a start-up, scale-up, venture studio, product build team, or consulting build unit would be highly relevant.

The ideal candidate:

You are a builder and doer. You can take a messy problem, structure it quickly, test it with real evidence, and turn it into something teams can act on. You are fast, practical, and commercially minded. You like early-stage work, but you understand how to get things done inside a large company. You love going down new theme/problem/solution rabbit holes. You do not need perfect direction to make progress. You make things move.

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.