Job Description

Reporting to the Senior Vice President of Corporate Information Technology, the Vice President of Human Resources and Learning Systems provides senior leadership to drive the strategic vision for the Human Resources Technology and Visa University Learning Initiatives. The ideal candidate will provide innovative leadership, motivation, and guidance required to successfully meet strategic objectives and deliverables in support of business needs. It will be critical to foster and drive innovation and experimentation, delivering software solutions that meet or exceed customer and stakeholder expectations, often helping shape business requirements in a manner that optimally leverages technology teams. While this specific role will leverage some packaged products such as Workday, Smart Recruiters, ADP and Cornerstone LMS, it will also involve new development leveraging modern technologies.  Stakeholders include Talent Acquisition, Onboarding, Compensation, Benefits, Payroll, HR Operations, Learning and Development, Talent Management and Mergers & Acquisitions Integration to name a few.

The candidate will be responsible for a cross-functional global team of senior engineers, solution architects, technical project managers and operations teams to define technology project architecture, technology strategy, and play a leadership role providing guidance to stakeholders. This individual will provide thought and people leadership to identify and execute the actions required for successful delivery of Visa’s strategic priorities. The individual must be a strong leader, able to engage and challenge senior audiences, identify and prioritize actions, and navigate a highly-matrixed, global environment.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Developing and executing the technology strategies and roadmaps to meet business objectives with existing and/or emerging technologies in Human Resources and Corporate Learning.
• Leading a growth organization by hiring, training and maintaining high-performing teams; creating a safe and diverse work environment; developing personal growth opportunities for all levels of the organization
• Partnering with HR and Learning leaders on the technical strategy for next generation cloud solutions to support our HR business processes.
• Working closely with executive management to define priorities, direction and timelines
• Researching HR and Learning best practices and industry innovations and apply those across the HR and Learning business and technology landscape
• Overseeing preparations of business case and needs analysis as they arise for the portfolio of applications.
• Develop an integration strategy to ensure one cohesive user interface with one source for information that adheres to our Corporate integration strategy.
• Coordinating with functional and technical staff and lead system-related projects and initiatives such as, new system functionality and/or new technologies
• Responsibility for support and maintenance of our HR  and Learning systems
• Providing leadership and oversight to large transformational programs across many functional teams including third party vendors.
• Providing mentoring, coaching, career development and day-to-day management of work to a team of business analysts, process analysts, software engineers and support resources globally
• Keep executive management informed of progress and obstacles impeding the successful architecture, implementation of projects and other departmental activities through status reports, presentations, etc.
• Provide workforce plans, budget development, tracking and forecasting. Manage the team to achieve target scope, schedule and cost objectives

Qualifications

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS:

• 12 years of work experience with a Bachelor’s Degree or at least 10 years of experience with an Advanced degree (e.g. Masters/MBA/JD/MD) or at least 8 years of work experience with a PhD

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• BS/MS in Computer Science / Computer Engineering, Science, Math, or professional degree plus equivalent work experience
• 15+ years of technology leadership experience with increasing responsibility growing and leading high performance teams and directing the IT function
• Extensive corporate and packaged application knowledge in organizations greater than 5000 employees
• Experience planning, designing and implementing efficient business and system solutions for HR business functions
• Experience deploying enterprise resource planning (ERP) level applications in global corporations
• Multi-tasking ability essential to handle multiple priorities with minimal direction from management and adjust to changing priorities and requirements in a rapidly growing organization
• Strong leadership and people management skills, with demonstrated ability to lead global, multi-functional teams
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, and explain the technology strategy to diverse audiences; in particular, the ability to describe IT situations, alternatives and recommendations in readily understood non-technical language
• Ability to drive consensus across diverse, global technology and business partners will be key
• Sound judgment, high ethical standards and the ability to work effectively with others at all levels
• Customer-oriented and cool-tempered
• ITIL, Six Sigma or Agile development experience desired
• Workday experience desired

Additional Information

TRAVEL REQUIREMENTS:

• This position requires the incumbent to travel for work <10% of the time

WORKING HOURS:

• Incumbent must make themselves available during core business hours with occasional availability outside standard business hours to support global teams as needed.

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, and reach with hands and arms

Learn more about our Corporate IT organization at: vi.sa/Corp_IT_careers

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