Director, Stablecoin and Digital Assets Risk Intelligence & Strategy

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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.

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Job Description

The Director, Stablecoin and Digital Assets Risk Intelligence & Strategy will own the long-term vision, strategy, and execution of Visa’s stablecoin and digital-assets risk intelligence capabilities. Reporting to the Senior Director of the Global CSR team, the Director will lead a team of three. The mandate extends beyond managing current processes: this leader will anticipate evolving stablecoin risks, market structures, technologies, and regulatory expectations and build the governance, data, analytical, and decision-support capabilities required to enable responsible growth.

 

Key Responsibilities

• Risk strategy and governance. Set the enterprise risk appetite, approval framework, and ongoing monitoring requirements for stablecoin and digital-asset counterparties.
• Portfolio and exposure management. Establish scalable frameworks for settlement limits, concentrations, liquidity, collateral, exceptions, stress testing, and scenario analysis.
• Risk intelligence and executive reporting. Lead forward-looking surveillance and translate financial, regulatory, market, and on-chain signals into actionable insights, escalations, and senior-management reporting.
• Platform and analytics strategy. Own the vision, investment priorities, and roadmap for Visa’s Stablecoin Risk Intelligence Platform, including responsible AI-enabled detection, decision support, reporting, and automation.
• Enterprise operating model. Align senior stakeholders across Treasury, Product, Technology, Legal, Compliance, Crypto, and CSR on strategic priorities, decision rights, controls, and escalation protocols.
• Regulatory foresight and resilience. Anticipate external developments, advise leaders on risk implications, and ensure readiness for depegs, liquidity disruptions, custody or cyber events, sanctions concerns, and other material incidents.
• Data, model, and control governance. Set standards and accountability for data quality, model performance, explainability, human oversight, access, validation, and control testing across analytical and AI-enabled capabilities.
• Organizational leadership and performance. Build a high-performing team, drive enterprise adoption, and define outcomes and key risk indicators that demonstrate risk reduction, decision quality, operational leverage, and responsible growth.

This position is a Hybrid role to be based in our Foster City, CA office location. Expectations of days in office will be aligned between the selected candidate and hiring manager.

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications:

• 10 or more years of work experience with a Bachelor’s Degree or at least 8 years of work experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters/ MBA/JD/MD) or at least 3 years of work experience with a PhD
• Deep understanding of stablecoin economics, reserve structures, wallet and custody models, settlement flows, on- and off-ramp architectures, blockchain infrastructure, and relevant regulatory requirements.
• Demonstrated strength in credit and financial analysis, quantitative methods, scenario analysis, business-case development, executive communication, and senior stakeholder management.
• Demonstrated experience leading or directly contributing to the design, deployment, and governance of AI/ML/LLM-enabled systems in a risk, compliance, or financial-analytics context — including model validation, explainability, and human-oversight controls. Familiarity with model risk management standards required.
• Experience establishing governance frameworks, approval standards, control environments, and incident-response processes in a regulated or highly controlled environment.
• Ability to translate complex technical, financial, and regulatory issues into clear risk decisions and practical actions for executive and cross-functional audiences.

Preferred Qualifications:

• 12 or more years of work experience with a Bachelor’s Degree or 8-10 years of experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD) or 6+ years of work experience with a PhD
• Demonstrated ability to work independently, exercise sound judgment, take initiative, and deliver results in a self-directed environment.
• Proven team-leadership and people-management capabilities, including the ability to supervise, coach, and develop junior analysts while maintaining high standards for analytical quality and execution.
• Working knowledge of AI applications, including their use in risk analytics, monitoring, decision support, workflow automation, and responsible governance.

Information for US Applicants

For roles located in the US, the estimated salary range for this position is $179,000.00 to $ 287,000.00 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.