Technical Product Manager - Sanctions Screening

Visa is a world leader in payments technology, facilitating transactions between consumers, merchants, financial institutions and government entities across more than 200 countries and territories, dedicated to uplifting everyone, everywhere by being the best way to pay and be paid.

At Visa, you'll have the opportunity to create impact at scale - tackling meaningful challenges, growing your skills and seeing your contributions impact lives around the world. Join Visa and do work that matters - to you, to your community, and to the world.

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The selected candidate will join the Compliance Technology Operations team within the Global Ethics & Compliance Organization, supporting the Commercial & Money Movement Solutions (CMS) Business. This team is central to all technology development related to Compliance requirements and the enablement of new products.

The ideal candidate shoulddemonstratea strong work ethic, leadership abilities, sound judgment, and effective time management skills for prioritizing tasks.

Success in this role requires the ability to excel within a fast-paced, collaborative team environment, with a particular focus on sanctions screening. The candidate must quickly develop a comprehensive understanding of Visa's sanctions screening programme-covering areas such as name screening, transaction screening, and counterparty screening-and leverage this expertise to establish robust requirements for new features, as well as drive enhancements to compliance systems specifically related to sanctions screening functionality.

Key Competencies and Skills

Deepexpertiseinsanctions screening concepts and controls, including name screening, transaction screening, counterparty screening, and ongoing monitoring across customer and payment lifecycles.Strong ability to define and translateregulatory and policy requirements(e.g., OFAC, UK HMT, EU,UNand other local regimes) into clear, scalablefunctional and technical requirements. Solid understanding ofendtoendsanctions screening flows, including list ingestion and versioning,realtimeand batch processing, auditability, and regulatory defensibility. Strongdata analysis skills, with the ability to assess alert quality, false positives, coverage gaps, latency, and control effectiveness using quantitative metrics and KPIs.Handsonexperience supportingUAT, production validation, tuning, andpostdeploymentmonitoringof sanctions screening systems, including issue triage and remediation.Proven experience designing, enhancing, or governingscreening logic, matching algorithms, thresholds, and alerting frameworks, with a focus on risk coverage,falsepositivereduction, and operational efficiency.

Responsibilities:

This role involves collaborating with Product and Technology leadership to define and design Compliance technology platforms, driving strategy and feature development for Compliance tools.

• Ownendtoendsanctions screening requirements across customer onboarding, transaction processing, and ongoing monitoring for Commercial & Money Movement Solutions.
• Define andmaintainfunctional and technical requirements forrealtimeand batch sanctions screening, including name screening, transaction screening, and counterparty screening across multiple payment flows.
• Ensure screening solutions support global sanctions regimes (e.g., OFAC, EU, UK HMT,UNand other applicable local lists), includingtimelyingestion, versioning, and auditability of sanctions lists.
• Partner with Compliance, Risk, and Legal teams to translate regulatory expectations and policy changes into clear, actionable product and technical requirements.
• Drive enhancements to screening logic, matching rules, thresholds, and alerting, balancing risk coverage with operational efficiency andfalsepositivereduction.
• Lead requirements for alert generation, case management integration, escalation workflows, and decisioning, ensuring traceability and defensibility of sanctions decisions.
• Support UAT, production validation, and ongoing tuning of sanctions screening systems, includingpostdeploymentmonitoring and issue remediation.
• Define and track KPIs and control metrics for sanctions screening effectiveness, coverage, latency, and alert quality, supporting internal governance and regulatory examinations.
• Act as the primary liaison between Compliance Operations, Engineering, Data, and external vendors for sanctions screening capabilities, upgrades, and incident resolution.
• Success in this role demands proven experience with Agile methodologies, modern product management, and program management practices, enabling the candidate to adapt quickly in a dynamic, fast-paced environment. Minimal supervision is expected, with the autonomy to make impactful decisions and drive results. Hybrid employeesare required tobalance in-office and remote work, typically spending at least half of their time onsitein accordance withbusiness demands.
• Overall, the Technical Product Manager plays a pivotal role in ensuring that Compliance platforms not only meet current regulatory and business requirements but alsoanticipatefuture challenges, driving continuous improvement and innovation throughout the organization.

This is a hybrid position. Expectation of days in office will be Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday.

This role is not eligible for immigration/sponsorship, including but not limited toJ-1, F-1, CPT, or OPT and employment-based sponsorship such as: H-1B, H-1B1,E-3, O-1, TN and any EAD card holders that may need assistance in the future.

This role is not eligible for relocation.

Basic Qualifications:

• 5 or more years of relevant work experience with aBachelor'sDegree or at least 2 years of work experience with an Advanced degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD) or 0 years of work experience with a PhD

Preferred Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, Information Technology, or a related field, followed by at least 7 years of experience in solution and design of AML systems.
• Strong understanding of sanctions screening and AML functionalities, withhandsonexperience designing, configuring, or managing sanctions screening solutions across customer onboarding, transaction processing, and ongoing monitoring.
• Demonstrated experience withsanctions screening systems, including name screening, transaction screening, and counterparty screening, with a focus on tuning matching logic, thresholds, and alert quality.
• Proven ability to manageendtoendsanctions screening programs, including requirements definition, delivery oversight, UAT, production validation, andpostimplementationoptimization.
• Strong program management skills, including overseeing multiplecompliance technology initiatives, coordinatingcrossfunctionalteams, developing detailed delivery plans, and tracking milestones to ensuretimelyexecution.
• Soliddata analysis andissueresolutionskills, with the ability to assess false positives, coverage gaps, latency, and control effectiveness in sanctions screening environments.
• Comprehensive knowledge ofcompliance and sanctions screening platforms, QA methodologies, and control frameworks supporting auditability and regulatory defensibility.
• Technicalexpertiseenabling confident collaboration withengineering, data, QA, and operations teamsto translate sanctions policy and regulatory expectations into scalable technical solutions.
• Effective negotiation, influencing, and communication skills, with the ability to clearly articulatesanctions risk,tradeoffs, and design decisionsto senior stakeholders and regulators whenrequired.

Work Hours: Varies upon the needs of the department.

Travel Requirements: This position requires travel5-10% 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 this position is 131,600.00 to 210,300.00 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.