Wilson Raphale
Product Management Director @ Visa | Led Data Platform, Search, Payment Acceptance Teams Solving Customer Problems At Scale
- Role
- Director of Product - Data Platform & Products at Visa
- Location
- Royal Oak, MI, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Wilson Raphale
Product management leader with over 15 years of experience spanning enterprise and startup environments, driving innovation in data platform, AI, enterprise search, and business productivity tools. Passionate about turning market insights into data-driven product strategies that resonate with users and scale with business needs. Proven ability to lead cross-functional teams, design with empathy, build stakeholder alignment, and ship impactful products across multiple industries.Specialties: Enterprise Software · Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) · 0-to-1 Product Growth · AI/ML-driven Analytics · Enterprise Search · Data Governance · Payment Acceptance
Experience
Director of Product - Data Platform & Products
Nov 2023 — Present
Own the strategy and adoption for Data and Analytics platform services on the Visa Acceptance Platform. As the Lead Data Steward, I guide data use to maximize value and minimize risk. Manage a team of six product managers, promoting innovation and continuous improvement- Creating an Intelligent Analytics platform that includes an AI-powered data explorer, ML-based recommendation engine, near-real-time alerts, and a conversational chat experience.(Pilot launch target for Q1)- Implemented data governance policies and improved metadata and data quality to ensure reliable and high-quality data across the platform- Enhanced the reporting platform, delivering 36 million reports monthly, managing report subscriptions, and reducing average report generation time to 142 minutes.
Education
Anna University Chennai
Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Electronics and Instrumentation Engineering
2001 — 2005
Product School
Product Executive Certificate, Product Management
Skills
- Jms
- Software Development Life Cycle (Sdlc)
- Stakeholder Management
- Struts
- Java
- Oracle
- Tomcat
- Alternative Payments
- Strategy
- Analytics
- Java Enterprise Edition
- Weblogic
- Jboss Application Server
- Javascript
- Html 5
- Payments
- Jdbc
- Sql
- Restful Webservices
- Linux
- Stakeholder Engagement
- Grails
- Software Development
- Accurev
- Junit
- Start-Ups
- Unix
- Devops
- Pl/Sql
- Entrepreneurship
- Servlets
- Product Management
- Cross-Functional Team Leadership
- User Experience
- Product Design
- Product Development
- Groovy
- Api Development
- Sdlc
- Angularjs
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