Senior Manager, Business Affairs Lead

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.

Job Description

We’re looking for a Business Affairs Lead to join Visa Creative Studio as we continue building a best-in-class global creative team for Visa and the clients we serve.  

This candidate will support and oversee business affairs needs across creative, marketing, production, content, campaign, experiential, and studio initiatives for the Visa brand and clients that we serve . This role helps ensure creative work is properly contracted, cleared, licensed, documented, approved, and ready for use across intended channels, markets, and timeframes.  

The Business Affairs Lead will partner closely with Creative, Production, Marketing, Legal, Procurement, Finance, Brand and external agencies . This person will help teams understand business requirements related to talent, music, photography, video, third-party materials, usage rights, licensing, renewals, vendor agreements, statements of work, and asset reuse.  

T his person is expected to operate with a high degree of independence, apply sound judgment, manage complex rights and vendor-related matters, and help protect the business while enabling creative work to move forward efficiently.  

Key Responsibilities:

Business Affairs & Rights Management:

• Manage business affairs support across creative campaigns, video, photography, content production, activations, experiential programs, events, sponsorship extensions, social content, and marketing assets.  

• Support contract, SOW, licensing, usage rights, releases, clearances, renewals, and vendor documentation processes.  

• Review creative concepts, scripts, storyboards, p roducti on plans, and asset requests to identify business affairs considerations.  

• Manage Le gal reviews of WIP and final materials to ensure clearances are in place.  

• Track usage rights, expiration dates, territories, media channels, exclusivity, talent r estrictions, music rights, and asset limitations.  

• Help determine wheth er assets can be reused, adapted, localized, extended, or redistributed.  

• Maintain accurate documentation for contracts, rights, licenses, releases, invoices, approvals, and usage terms.  

• Provide guidance to creative and marketing teams on rights, restrictions, approvals, and business affairs requirements.  

Cross-Functional Coordination:

• Partner with Legal, Procurement, Finance, Production, Marketing, Creative, Brand, and external partners to ensure business requirements are understood and addressed.  

• Coordinate with agencies and other external partners as needed.  

• Help teams understand the cost, timing, and risk implications of rights, licenses, renewals, and production decisions.  

• Escalate high-ris k issues to Legal, Procurement, Finance, Creative leadership, or Marketing leadership as appropriate.  

• Support budget visibility by vetting  usage, licensing, talent, renewal, or vendor-related costs.  

Process, Governance & Documentation:

• Help develop and maintain business affairs processes, trackers, templates, rights libraries, and playbooks.  

• Improve documentation practices and visibility into asset usage rights.  

• Support post-project reviews to identify rights management learnings or process improvements.  

• Help ensure business affairs workflows are clear, repeatable, and aligned with studio needs.  

• Maintain confidentiality when handling sensitive business, legal, financial, or talent-related information.  

AI Adoption:

• Maintain an acti ve understanding of emerging AI platforms and automation tools and apply that knowledge responsibly to optimize workflows and drive operational efficiencies at scale.  

• Maintain an active understanding of implications around usage rights w hen AI is used.  

Visa requires at least 3 days in office, expectations of these days will be confirmed by your Hiring Manager.


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.

• 7+ years of experience in business affairs, production, agency operations, rights management, marketing operations, or related creative business functions.  

• Experience in business affairs, creative operations, marketing operations, production operations, rights management, agency operations, or related fields.  

• Experience working with contracts, statements of work, licensing, usage rights, releases, vendor documentation, or clearance processes.  

• Strong understanding of creative production workflows and marketing asset distribution.  

• Ability to manage multiple complex projects with accuracy, discretion, and strong follow-through.  

• Experience in an advertising agency, in-house creative studio, media company, entertainment company, production company, or large global brand.  

• Experience with talent, music, photography, video, influencer, experiential, event, sponsorship, and content licensing.  

• Familiarity with legal, procurement

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