Visa鈥檚 Corporate Development and M&A Integration team plays a critical role in enabling the company鈥檚 acquisition strategy and realizing deal value. The team is responsible for leading the end鈥憈o鈥慹nd integration of all acquisitions across Visa.
The Director of M&A Integration will partner with business sponsors, the Corporate Development deal team, and functional integration leads across go鈥憈o鈥憁arket, corporate, and technology functions to ensure effective and timely execution. This is a high鈥憊isibility leadership role for a proactive leader who is comfortable operating in complex integrations and contributing to the ongoing evolution of Visa鈥檚 integration approach within a leading global payments company. This role will report to the Head of M&A Integration.
Responsibilities:
- Serve as an experienced integration leader and co鈥憀ead with the Head of M&A Integration, guiding functional leaders and acquired company teams through complex integrations while helping shape and evolve Visa鈥檚 overall integration approach.
- Operate effectively in fast paced, ambiguous deal environments, demonstrating the ability to pivot quickly as deal assumptions, priorities, or constraints evolve, while maintaining momentum and focus on integration objectives.
- Go beyond traditional project management to plan, lead, and execute end-to-end cross-functional and go-to-market integrations, shaping integration strategy, solving complex and novel deal challenges, and driving stakeholder alignment, while owning integrated workplans, interdependencies, and issue resolution to ensure outcomes align with deal rationale, value drivers, and synergy objectives.
- Drive day鈥憈o鈥慸ay integration execution and governance, including leading integration forums, managing operating cadence, resolving complex and ambiguous issues, and ensuring timely, well-informed decision鈥憁aking across the organization.
- Apply deep understanding of the M&A lifecycle and integration frameworks to flexibly navigate different transaction types, stakeholder dynamics, and operating models.
- Own integration performance management, including defining tracking metrics aligned to transaction value drivers, managing post鈥慶lose scorecards, and delivering clear insights and recommendations to senior leadership and key stakeholders.
- Independently identify risks, gaps, and integration challenges, developing mitigation plans, mobilizing cross鈥慺unctional teams, and driving resolution through influence, experience, and sound judgment rather than formal authority.
- Partner closely with cross鈥慺unctional teams to foster a positive integration experience for employees, ensuring organizational design, culture, and operating processes that support integration objectives and enable effective collaboration between acquiring and acquired teams.
- Lead post鈥慽ntegration retrospectives and continuous improvement efforts, capturing lessons learned, defining priority improvements for future acquisitions, and translating insights into tangible improvements that strengthen integration outcomes over time.
This is a hybrid position. Expectation of days in office will be confirmed by your hiring manager.