Technical Project Manager

Company Description

Visa is a world leader in payments and technology, with over 259 billion payments transactions flowing safely between consumers, merchants, financial institutions, and government entities in more than 200 countries and territories each year. Our mission is to connect the world through the most innovative, convenient, reliable, and secure payments network, enabling individuals, businesses, and economies to thrive while driven by a common purpose – to uplift everyone, everywhere by being the best way to pay and be paid.

Make an impact with a purpose-driven industry leader. Join us today and experience Life at Visa.

Job Description

Come Join Visa Inc, a global payments technology company that connects consumers, businesses, banks, governments and territories to fast, secure and reliable electronic payments. Visa is accepted in 200 countries and is the best way to pay and be paid for everyone, everywhere.

Job Responsibilities include:

• Manage scrum teams
• Hands-on experience with the day-to-day management of cross functional, global software development projects.
• Guide the team and organization on how to use Agile/Scrum practices and values to delight customers
• Remove impediments or guide the team to remove impediments by finding the right personnel to remove the impediment.
• Build a trusting and safe environment where problems can be raised without fear of blame, retribution, or being judged, with an emphasis of healing and problem solving.
• Facilitate getting the work done without coercion, assigning, or dictating the work.
• Strong communication skills and the ability to work well with other departments and varying levels of management
• Ability to function effectively in a fast paced environment and manage multiple projects simultaneously.
• Ability to plan and prioritize multiple tasks effectively.
• Knowledge of other Agile approaches: XP, Kanban, Crystal, FDD, etc
• Facilitate discussion, decision making, and conflict resolution
• Assist with internal and external communication, improving transparency, and radiating information
• Support and educate the Product Owner, especially with respect to grooming and maintaining the product backlog.
• Provide all support to the team using a servant leadership style whenever possible, and leading by example
• Improve team velocity and leverage tools like burn downs and capacity modeling to ensure that the teams are productive.

This is a hybrid position from Warsaw, Poland. Employees are expected to work from the Warsaw office 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.

Qualifications

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

• 3 or more years of work experience with a Bachelor’s Degree or more than 2 years of work experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD)
• PMP (Project Management Professional) certification is preferred.
• SAFe (Scaled Agile Framework) certification is good to have.
• Proven track record in program management within a technical environment.
• Strong technical background with understanding and/or hands-on experience in software development and web technologies.
• Experience with Jira Align or similar project management software.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Proven ability to work cross-functionally with engineering, design, and project management counterparts to deliver products/services

Additional Information

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.