Senior Product Manager, Cards

Founded by experienced entrepreneurs and engineers in 2016, Pismo is a technology company that provides a comprehensive processing platform for banking, card issuing and financial market infrastructure and helps customers innovate and build the next generation of banking and payment solutions. Pismo joined Visa in 2024.

Leveraging Visa’s solutions, our core platform, and an expanding suite of capabilities, Pismo addresses the technological challenges that large banks, marketplaces, and fintech companies face in migrating from legacy systems to more advanced technology in the market. Pismo’s cloud-based platform empowers firms to build and launch financial products rapidly, scaling as they grow to have a broader audience while keeping high security and availability standards.

Pismo’s 500+ employees are located in more than 10 countries around the world.

• Understand user customs, competition landscape and regulation, market insights, consumer pain points and differentiated competition, and establish a viable value proposition and business strategy for card processing and payment methods through research and competitive analysis in different markets. 
• Lead end-to-end the Product journeys throughout all the development process including Discovering, Product and Tech Refinement, testing and delivering.
• Manage short and long-term product planning and prioritization based on user value, business value accordingly with Pismo Strategy. 
• Lead the business architecture definition in support of the roadmap.
• Provide transparency of backlog and prioritization to key partner and senior leadership through appropriate communication cadence.
• Work with central and local market cross-functional teams to ensure designs meet market needs and adhere to local regulatory, compliance and risk requirements
• Identify optimization requirements between business and product baseline.
• Improve product architecture and design to ensure high scalability, performance and reliability. 
• Design local capabilities and features aligned with Global Product Team.

Worksite: Austin, Texas

This is a hybrid position. Hybrid employees can alternate time between both remote and office. Employees in hybrid roles are expected to work from the office 2-3 set days a week (determined by leadership/site), with a general guidepost of being in the office 50% or more of the time based on business needs.

Visa will accept applications for this role until at least December 3, 2025.

Basic Qualifications:

• 2 or more years of work experience with a Bachelor’s Degree or an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD, or PhD)

Preferred Qualifications:

• +5 years of experience with regulatory standards and rules from sources such as the Central Bank, Federal Reserve and other entities to implement improvements and develop new Credit and Debit processing products.
• +5 years of experience in the Product Development and Management market focused on Development and implementation of Credit Card Processing for American financial institutions.
• Have in-depth knowledge of the market in which we operate, including US Standards Product, Business and Regulatory aspects, trends, benchmarks and client needs.
• +5 years of experience as a Product Manager, managing Squads related to the development and support of an Issuer Processing Credit and Debit Card Product
• Mandatory knowledge and experience on the Discovery, Refinement, prioritization and planning about APIs integration and microservices in Cloud Computing Environment.
• Mandatory knowledge on Regulatory Compliance and Industry Standards, mainly in the US for Credit and Debit Processing.
• Mandatory experience with software engineers' teams
• Madatory experience with Agile methodologies.
• Have proficiency in product research and analysis.
• Desirable experience with fintechs.

Work Hours: Varies upon the needs of the department.

Travel Requirements: This position requires travel 5-10% of the time.

Mental/Physical Requirements: This position will be performed in an office setting.  The position will require the incumbent to sit and stand at a desk, communicate in person and by telephone, frequently operate standard office equipment, such as telephones and computers.

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.

Visa will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with applicable local law, including the requirements of Article 49 of the San Francisco Police Code.

U.S. APPLICANTS ONLY: The estimated salary range for a new hire into this position is 152,200.00 to 220,850.00 USD per year, which may include potential sales incentive payments (if applicable). Salary may vary depending on job-related factors which may include knowledge, skills, experience, and location. In addition, this position may be eligible for bonus and equity. Visa has a comprehensive benefits package for which this position may be eligible that includes Medical, Dental, Vision, 401 (k), FSA/HSA, Life Insurance, Paid Time Off, and Wellness Program.