Visa Dipping Their Toes Into Crypto

Slowly but surely, Visa is dipping their toes into the crypto and blockchain world by hiring professionals on the down low.

As we can see from the recruitment platform SmartRecruiters, Visa is looking for a technical product manager who has a passionate outlook when it comes to payments and cryptocurrencies.

Visa went to detail the new role available at the firm saying, “As a product manager on the Visa Crypto team, this person will have responsibility for executing Visa’s product strategy within the cryptocurrency ecosystem.” In addition to this, Visa noted:

“This highly motivated individual will be responsible for managing a product roadmap and collaborating with key stakeholders across the strategy, risk, research, and engineering organizations. This individual will work in close collaboration with the Visa Research team to develop new products to deliver value to fintechs and Visa. This person should have great problem-solving skills and creativity to find new opportunities and anticipate how cryptocurrencies could impact payments.”

Whoever the lucky individual is that gets this role at Visa will also be responsible for managing “product strategy and roadmap” for crypto-related opportunities.

Furthermore, the advertisement for the job suggests that the company is focusing to work on permissionless blockchain rather than on the permission ones, which got a lot more attention from big enterprises,

“Are you deeply familiar with permissionless blockchain technology and have a close network of experts in the fast-moving cryptocurrency and fintech ecosystem?” The job advertisement noted. “Are you excited about the challenge of developing new products for Visa to deliver value to fintechs looking to support cryptocurrencies?”

This isn’t the first time that Visa have showed their interest in the crypto and blockchain space as at the end of last year, the firm acquired British cross-border payment provider Earthport, which has a lot of deep connections with Ripple for more than $250 million.

In addition to this, the company was very open about its several blockchain-based projects and announced a partnership with IBM last year in order to test Ethereum’s technology on the international payment industry.