Visa is a world leader in digital payments, facilitating more than 215 billion payments transactions between consumers, merchants, financial institutions and government entities across 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.

When you join Visa, you join a culture of purpose and belonging – where your growth is priority, your identity is embraced, and the work you do matters. We believe that economies that include everyone everywhere, uplift everyone everywhere. Your work will have a direct impact on billions of people around the world – helping unlock financial access to enable the future of money movement.

Opportunity to join the high-growth B2B team within Visa, Visa Business Solutions (VBS), to help drive the Product function across Canada and the US. VBS is a critical pillar of the Visa strategy to drive New Flows growth in the coming years.

This role will work closely with VBS NA Product team across a variety of strategic projects within North America to help grow the VBS business team members in Canada on Small Business Product Initiatives.

The NA VBS Product team is a unique regional product team, with a mandate to take Visa’s assets, platforms, and tools – and package solutions for the Canadian and US markets. For example, a live project is creating a product solution targeted at serving the construction segment.

Responsibilities:

• Support project workstreams related to Visa’s small business segment strategy
• Support solving business problems, collaborating, and coordinating with internal stakeholders to make recommendations on a wide range of business initiatives
• Build out unique, creative, and impactful solutions by working closely with our cross-functional and NA Product team on strategic projects, bringing timely and useful insight and analytical support.

Examples include:

Business as Usual Activities

• Creation of go-to-market (GTM) materials – have influence over the Small Business approach, development and deployment
• Support client and prospect conversations – both issuing banks and FinTech’s
• Industry knowledge and insights – what are the key trends in Small Business? Deep dive into different industries to understand challenges and needs

Example Sample Projects

• Support product strategy including market needs, opportunity size and industry insights and research.
• Support the creation of Visa core product constructs by optimizing business focused offers, tools, and resources to help businesses be more efficient with their day-to-day business management.
• Our partners leverage our APIs to create innovative experiences. Support the development of go-to-market material include sales decks, tear sheets and customer journeys on SMB-relevant APIs such as Visa Business Data Solutions, Visa Transaction Controls, Visa Token Service, Visa Card Eligible Service, Visa Merchant Offers Resource Center.
• Support the development training material for Client Enablement and Account Executives and coordinating training sessions for teams.
• Collaborate with the NA Product team and Global partners to update client facing material, ensure continued upkeep with material available to AE’s and develop opportunities to further enhance training of tools in the Canadian market.

Internship Duration: 12 – 16 weeks, starting May 2023

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 two days a week, Tuesdays and Wednesdays with a general guidepost of being in the office 50% of the time based on business needs.

• Graduating December 2023 or later

• Strong communications skills, clear and concise written and spoken communications, and communications that demonstrate professional judgment.
• The ideal candidate is a highly analytical individual with previous business experience.

• Experience in the payments industry not required, but a plus
• Ability to independently work on projects with multiple workstreams, with success over a wide variety of functional business problems
• Ability to structure and manage complex cross-enterprise projects and processes with multiple stakeholders at both senior and junior levels
• Analytical and problem-solving skills, with demonstrated intellectual and analytical rigor, attention to detail and ability to structure and analyze sophisticated financial modeling
• Experience working with economic theories, strategic and prioritization frameworks, scenarios analysis, and competitive assessments. Knowledge of payment industry revenue drivers a plus.
• Personal presence and ability to clearly communicate compelling messages to senior managers and external business partners
• Strong interpersonal and leadership skills to influence and build credibility as a 'peer' with functional and regional leaders within Visa
• Commitment to continuous training and improvement of employees throughout the corporate strategy function
• Self-starter, team oriented, collaborative, diplomatic, and flexible, with excellent presentation skills, including strong oral and writing capabilities
• Curiosity in payments technology and its future, experience in payments is a plus but not required

Permanent work authorization to work in the Canada is a precondition of employment for this position. Visa will not sponsor applicants for work visas in connection with this position.

Visa has adopted a COVID-19 vaccination policy to safeguard the health and well-being of our employees and visitors. As a condition of employment, all employees based in the U.S. are required to be fully vaccinated for COVID-19, unless a reasonable accommodation is approved or as otherwise required by law.

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.