--- title: Sr Manager, Accept Product Manager at Visa description: Visa is hiring for the Sr Manager, Accept Product Manager role in San Francisco, CA. Full-time, hybrid role. See the full description and apply. type: job url: https://www.foundrole.com/jobs/sr-manager-accept-product-manager-at-visa-01a0d715-db7d-7f97-9f65-58c6ccbb9065 date: 2026-09-28T02:20:03Z og_description: Join Visa as Sr Manager, Accept Product Manager in San Francisco, CA. Pays $169.1K–$270.8K per year. Full-time, hybrid role. og_image: https://www.foundrole.com/og/4jprqy.png breadcrumbs: - label: Home url: https://www.foundrole.com/ - label: Search url: https://www.foundrole.com/jobs --- | | | |---|---| | **Company** | Visa | | **Location** | San Francisco, CA (Hybrid) | | **Salary** | $169.1K/yr - $270.8K/yr | | **Type** | Full Time | | **Posted** | Sep 24, 2026 | ## Description **About Us** 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. Progress starts with you. **Job Description** The **Sr. Product Manager, Visa Accept SDK**, is responsible for defining and executing the technical product strategy for Visa’s merchant acceptance SDKs, APIs, and developer platforms. This role drives the end-to-end product lifecycle, from technical requirements definition and solution architecture through implementation, commercialization, and global deployment. The position requires deep collaboration with Engineering, Architecture, Security, Solutioning, Developer Experience, and Regional Product teams to deliver scalable, secure, and developer-friendly acceptance capabilities. The ideal candidate combines strong product management expertise with a solid understanding of payment technology, APIs, SDK development, mobile and web integration patterns, tokenization, authentication, merchant onboarding, and transaction processing. This individual will identify new product opportunities, define platform capabilities, establish technical roadmaps, and ensure solutions meet the needs of developers, partners, fintech's, merchants, acquirers, and wallet providers. All roles require digital fluency, including the ability to leverage emerging technologies such as Generative AI tools (e.g., Microsoft Copilot, ChatGPT) to accelerate product development, technical documentation, developer enablement, and operational efficiency. Key Responsibilities: - Define and execute the technical product strategy and roadmap for Visa Accept SDKs, APIs, and developer platform services. - Own the end-to-end product lifecycle, including requirements gathering, technical design reviews, development prioritization, testing, launch readiness, and post-launch optimization. - Partner closely with Engineering and Architecture teams to design scalable, secure, and resilient SDK frameworks supporting merchant acceptance use cases across multiple channels and markets. - Translate business, technical, and regulatory requirements into detailed product specifications, API requirements, SDK capabilities, and developer experience enhancements. - Drive platform capabilities supporting merchant onboarding, credential management, tokenization, authentication, risk controls, settlement, reporting, and transaction processing. - Establish and maintain SDK architecture standards, versioning strategies, backward compatibility requirements, and release management processes. - Collaborate with solution architects, implementation teams, and external partners to support integrations with acquirers, payment facilitators, processors, ISVs, fintech's, wallets, and merchant platforms. - Define API contracts, developer workflows, reference architectures, and integration patterns to simplify implementation and accelerate adoption. - Use data, telemetry, developer feedback, and operational metrics to prioritize enhancements and improve SDK performance, reliability, and adoption. - Partner with Security, Compliance, and Risk teams to ensure platform adherence to Visa, regulatory, privacy, and industry standards. - Develop technical business cases and investment proposals for new platform capabilities, balancing customer needs, engineering complexity, and commercial objectives. - Create and maintain developer-facing assets including technical documentation, implementation guides, sample applications, SDK release notes, and developer enablement materials. - Monitor emerging technologies, payment industry trends, AI-driven development practices, and competitor platforms to identify opportunities for innovation and platform differentiation. Visa requires at least 3 days in office, expectations of these days will be confirmed by your Hiring Manager.  **Qualifications** Basic Qualifications: - 8 or more years of relevant work experience with a Bachelor Degree or at least 5 years of experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD) or 2 years of work experience with a PhD Preferred Qualifications: - 9 or more years of relevant work experience with a Bachelor Degree or 7 or more relevant years of experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD) or 3 or more years of experience with a PhD - Experience in roles such as product manager, product owner, business process analyst, or sales operations. - Experience in applying Agile principles across design, development, testing, and product management. - Experience in developing software capabilities to support sales, service, or customer relationship management functions. - Experience in multi-tasking, organizing, managing, and implementing complex projects directly or through supervision. - Experience in cross-functional collaboration with systems, partner product, and engineering teams. - Experience managing API, SDK, platform, or developer-focused products - Strong understanding of payment processing, merchant acquiring, card-not-present and card-present transaction flows. - Knowledge of REST APIs, mobile SDKs (iOS/Android), web SDKs, authentication protocols, tokenization, and cloud-native architectures. - Familiarity with payment ecosystems including merchants, acquirers, processors, payment facilitators, gateways, wallets, and fintech platforms. - Ability to work effectively with engineering teams and communicate complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders. - Experience defining developer experience (DX) strategies and driving adoption of technical platforms at scale. - Knowledge of software development methodologies, CI/CD practices, observability, API lifecycle management, and platform governance. - Agile certifications such as CSM and CSPO, or their equivalent. - Experience in identifying, assessing, and managing tradeoffs in product development. - Experience in identifying points of failure and formulating error-handling approaches for product resiliency. **Information for US Applicants** For roles located in the US, the estimated salary range for this position is $169,100.00 to $ 270,800.00 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. **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 protect veteran status. Visa will also consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the EEOC guidelines and applicable local law, including the requirements of Article 49 of the San Francisco Police Code. ## Skills - Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) - Digital Literacy - Product Management - Onboarding - Backward Compatibility Testing - Credentialing - Supervision - Differentiated Instruction - Software Development Methodologies - Developer Experience (DevEx) - RESTful API - Software Deployment - Product Strategy - Deployment Strategy - Authentication (Software Security) - Risk Management - Business Case Development - Observability - Solution Architecture - Prioritization - Cloud Architecture - ICT Project Management Methodologies - Customer Relationship Management - Collaboration - Lifecycle Management - Microsoft Copilot - Requirements Gathering - OpenAI ChatGPT - Tokenization - New Product Development - CI/CD - Software Versioning - Multitasking - Merchant Acquiring - Generative AI - Sales Operations - Independent Software Vendor (Isv) Partnerships - iOS - Payment Processing - Software Development Kit (Sdk) - Release Management - Technical Documentation - API Design - Design Review - Systems Integration - Solution Design - Architecture Regulations - Product Roadmaps - Telemetry - Error Handling - Android - Generative AI Foundations - Governance - Product Ownership - Regulatory Compliance ## Benefits - Health and Wellness Programs - Health Insurance - Dental Insurance - Vision Insurance - Life Insurance - Paid Time Off (Pto) - 401(k) Plans - Tax-Advantaged Accounts ## How to Apply [Apply for this position](https://www.foundrole.com/jobs/sr-manager-accept-product-manager-at-visa-01a0d715-db7d-7f97-9f65-58c6ccbb9065?utm_source=ai_markdown) ## Related - [Browse all companies](https://www.foundrole.com/companies?utm_source=ai_markdown)