Head of Generative AI Research

About this role

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. Visa will accept applications for this role until at least 09-29-2026 Job Description Visa Research is seeking an exceptional Head of Generative AI Research to lead our strategic research initiatives in generative artificial intelligence. This senior leadership role will drive groundbreaking research across GenAI models, agents, reality applications, and privacy-preserving technologies

You will build and lead a world-class team of researchers, establish Visa as a thought leader in GenAI for commerce and payments, and translate cutting-edge research into transformative products and services. As Head of Generative AI Research, you will shape Visa's GenAI research agenda, collaborate with top academic institutions, publish in premier AI conferences, and work closely with product and engineering teams to deploy GenAI innovations at scale across Visa's global network. Key Responsibilities Research Leadership & Strategy Define and execute Visa's generative AI research strategy across model development, agent systems, reality applications, and privacy technologies Lead research initiatives in large language models (LLMs), multimodal models, diffusion models, and foundation model development Drive innovation in GenAI agents for autonomous decision-making, planning, and reasoning in commerce applications Pioneer research in GenAI reality applications including virtual shopping experiences, digital twins, a

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