# Director, Strategic Project Management

**Company**: Visa
**Location**: Shanghai
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Finance

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## Description

The Strategic Projects and Planning, China team leads and coordinates enterprise-wide initiatives that are critical to Visa's long-term success in China.

This role will manage assigned projects within Visa's China Market Entry agenda, including vendor/partner coordination, technology delivery, systems integration, regulatory-readiness activities, launch preparation and transition to ongoing operations.

Key Responsibilities:

- Manage assigned projects or project workstreams using clear scope, milestones, actions and delivery dates.

- Develop and maintain project plans, schedules, status reports, decision logs, risk and issue logs, and other core project documentation.

- Coordinate day-to-day activities across payment product, application engineering, architecture, integration, infrastructure, cybersecurity, operations, control functions and external processing partners.

- Track deliverables and dependencies, follow up with owners and escalate overdue or blocked items through the appropriate channels.

- Organize project meetings, prepare materials, document decisions and actions, and monitor completion of follow-up items.

- Support requirements clarification, solution planning, integration, testing, certification, deployment and launch-readiness activities for card-processing, wallet-processing and payment-platform projects.

- Assist with partner coordination by maintaining agreed deliverables, acceptance criteria, schedules, action items and issue tracking.

- Prepare concise project updates for management, highlighting progress, upcoming milestones, risks, issues and decisions needed.

- Coordinate project inputs for regulatory, legal, compliance, cybersecurity, data, operational risk, audit and control reviews.

- Support business continuity, disaster recovery, operational-readiness and third-party dependency activities relevant to assigned projects.

- Support cutover planning, implementation tracking, post-launch stabilization and transition of completed deliverables to operational teams.

- Maintain effective working relationships with internal and external stakeholders and contribute to a collaborative project environment.

Qualifications:

- 12+ years of experience in technology project management, application delivery, systems integration or engineering within the payments industry, including experience coordinating cross-functional technology projects.

- Experience working with domestic bank card clearing institutions in China to drive technical implementation and establish operational processes for domestic card-processing services, including systems integration, testing and certification, defining operational responsibilities and procedures, and supporting regulatory readiness and launch.

- Practical experience managing project plans, schedules, milestones, risks, issues, dependencies, actions and status reporting.

- Bachelor's degree in computer science, software engineering, information systems, or a related technical discipline, or equivalent practical experience.

- Working knowledge of project-management methods and tools, with the ability to organize work, follow up on commitments and maintain accurate documentation.

- Ability to understand payment-processing business and technical requirements, challenge assumptions, identify integration dependencies, and translate requirements into clear project activities, owners and target dates.

- Experience coordinating internal stakeholders, vendors or business partners.

- Strong understanding of payment message flows and interfaces, including ISO 8583 and ISO 20022, and the ability to review message specifications, field or data-element mappings, transaction states, response codes and integration-test scenarios.

- Deep knowledge of bank-card processing across authorization, clearing, settlement, reconciliation, exception handling and dispute-related processing, with a strong understanding of issuer, acquirer, merchant, processor and network interactions.

- Clear written and verbal communication skills in English, with the ability to prepare concise updates and communicate with stakeholders at different levels.

- Ability to work effectively in a matrixed environment, manage multiple priorities and escalate issues appropriately.

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## Skills

### Required
- project management
- technology project management
- application delivery
- systems integration
- engineering
- payments industry
- cross-functional technology projects
- card-processing services
- testing
- certification
- operational responsibilities
- procedures
- regulatory readiness
- launch
- project plans
- schedules
- milestones
- risks
- issues
- dependencies
- actions
- status reporting
- payment-processing business
- technical requirements
- integration dependencies
- project activities
- owners
- target dates
- internal stakeholders
- vendors
- business partners
- payment message flows
- interfaces
- ISO 8583
- ISO 20022
- message specifications
- field or data-element mappings
- transaction states
- response codes
- integration-test scenarios
- bank-card processing
- authorization
- clearing
- settlement
- reconciliation
- exception handling
- dispute-related processing
- issuer
- acquirer
- merchant
- processor
- network interactions

### Nice to have
- card payments
- digital payments
- payment processing
- payment-platform delivery
- wallet processing
- wallet account and credential lifecycle
- card provisioning
- tokenization
- transaction routing
- funding
- payment networks
- banks
- processors
- wallet platforms
- merchants
- external payment-technology partners
- payment-platform non-functional requirements
- availability
- performance
- scalability
- resiliency
- security
- data protection
- Mandarin

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