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Visa is a world leader in payments and technology, with over 259 billion payments transactions flowing safely between consumers, merchants, financial institutions, and government entities in more than 200 countries and territories each year. Our mission is to connect the world through the most innovative, convenient, reliable, and secure payments network, enabling individuals, businesses, and economies to thrive while driven by a common purpose – to uplift everyone, everywhere by being the best way to pay and be paid.

Make an impact with a purpose-driven industry leader. Join us today and experience Life at Visa.

Visa is seeking an experienced, creative, and highly organized Event Marketing Manager to join our global events team supporting the Value-Added Services business unit. In this visible and fast-paced role, you’ll be responsible for planning, organizing, and delivering outstanding events that support business growth and showcase Visa’s brand.

This is more than just logistics - you’ll collaborate with top marketing, sales, and product leaders, as well as regional counterparts, to create activations that deliver on key business objectives. As a hands-on contributor, you’ll own every aspect of event production, from vendor management, logistics and on-site execution to project managing content development and speaker preparation. You’ll produce events that set industry standards and spark meaningful engagement with our clients and partners.

If you have strong attention to detail, creativity, the ability to remain composed under pressure, and are passionate about leveraging event marketing as a strategic lever to generate business impact, we would love to hear from you.

Key Responsibilities:

• Organize and manage Visa-hosted events, third-party tradeshow activations, and webinars from initial planning through production and post-event reporting.
• Oversee logistics, including third-party tradeshow services, venue sourcing, warehousing, and booth design, build, setup.
• Collaborate with key stakeholders and regional teams to ensure activations align with business priorities and deliver meaningful engagement.
• Manage production timelines, budgets, and related documentation to keep projects on track.
• Project manage the development of event materials - session descriptions, communications, and promotional content - in partnership with marketing colleagues.
• Ensure seamless execution and uphold a high standard of quality across all assigned events.
• Contribute to the Events Center of Excellence by updating event calendars, asset libraries, and project management tools for team alignment and visibility.
• Track and report on established event metrics and participate in quarterly analysis to inform and improve future event planning and execution processes.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree and 5+ years of relevant experience (or advanced degree with 2+ years) in B2B event management or corporate events.
• Demonstrated expertise in managing third-party tradeshow logistics and services - this is crucial.
• Hands-on experience producing small and large-scale events, including digital/webinar formats.
• Exceptional organizational and project management skills: budgeting, timeline management, vendor relations, and stakeholder coordination.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills and able to interact confidently with internal and external partners.
• Strong attention to detail, adaptability, and the ability to juggle multiple projects under tight deadlines.
• High degree of professionalism, courtesy, and respect. Skilled at building and maintaining cross-functional relationships.

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 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.

Why Join Us?
You’ll immediately play a key role in producing high-visibility events and have the chance to bring your operational expertise to a collaborative global team. Join us to help deliver seamless, impactful event experiences that elevate Visa’s presence and drive business results for collective impact across Visa’s Value-Added Services and B2B Marketing teams!

This is a hybrid position. Expectation of days in office will be confirmed by your Hiring Manager.

U.S. APPLICANTS ONLY: The estimated salary range for a new hire into this position is 105,800.00 to 153,450.00 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.