Team background: The North America Executive Office team is the dedicated engine to advance North America & the Regional President’s strategic agenda through operational excellence and client-centric priorities.
This is a high-visibility, high-impact position to lead the strategic initiatives arm of the North America Executive Office team, best suited for someone who combines strong analytical rigor and understanding of Visa’s business with flawless, low-ego execution. You will flex between surge initiatives and standing priorities to serve as the Executive Office’s A for PMO and client response.
As a One Visa, strategic operator, you will bring structure, clarity and momentum for the regional agenda, without adding unnecessary work for others. This includes independently organizing and analyzing complex inputs, identifying executive ready insights, translating them into clear strategy and action, and driving cross-functional execution. The ideal candidate can quickly lean in to assimilate into new teams and topics, bring order to ambiguity, and advance work into high quality outputs with outcome and stakeholder experience in mind.
This role is a launchpad for initiatives leadership. You will work closely across senior North America stakeholders, building a track record of well-orchestrated executional excellence across stakeholders, functions, and disciplines.
Key Responsibilities:
Strategic Initiative Leadership and Execution.
Balance hands-on execution with strategic vision to apply disciplined program management, ensuring alignment, accountability, and measurable outcomes across:
Surge initiatives: Stepping into to drive critical components, resolve challenges, or manage through key executive priority periods
Standing priorities: Go-to PMO for Executive Office initiatives and operations
Optimization: Identify opportunities to streamline and improve ways of working, including light‑touch reflections following above initiatives
Examples may range from priority client updates, executive office operations, AI acceleration, people and culture, and other initiatives that support North America’s agenda.
Client Readiness & Response:
Maintain cross-functional client call plans, ensuring clear roles, up-to-date information by category, and always-on-readiness
Serve as the Executive Office’s A for analytical analysis, coordinating across teams as needed to deliver clear, executive‑ready insights under tight timelines
During priority moments, you will act as the Executive Office PMO – stepping in quickly and calmly to connect the dots, bring order, and move urgent executive work forward across teams
This is a hybrid position. Expectation of days in office will be confirmed by your hiring manager.
** This role will be based in San Francisco -- no remote / no other locations -- pls note that no sponsorship will be available for this role including H1B, OPT, CPT or F-1) **