Office profile
Visa Headquarters & offices · San Francisco, California
Visa · San Francisco, California
A 13-story white “rock face” on the waterfront, modeled on the basalt columns of Devils Postpile, with planted terraces climbing from the second to the fifth floor.
The Mission Rock headquarters, the benefits and 66 years of offices from Fresno to San Francisco — then the pay and the business. Every number from Visa's own filings, careers site, newsroom and the architects' and engineers' project pages.
- 13floors in the Mission Rock headquarters
- 14 weekspaid new-child bonding leave, at least, for every parent
- ≈ 34,100employees in 86 countries and territories
- $154,909median employee pay, FY2025
Sources: Form 10-K FY2025 · Proxy statement, Dec 2025 · 2025 CRS Report · Henning Larsen · AlfaTech
Companies / United States / Payments / Visa
THE HEADQUARTERS · MISSION ROCK · 2024
A 13-story rock face with terraces on almost every floor
Henning Larsen carved the building into smaller bays so it reads like a San Francisco neighborhood, not one big block. White precast facets catch the light; terraces wrap the second to fifth floors and step up to a sheltered roof terrace with views of Oracle Park and the Bay Bridge. Inside, HOK laid out the floors as “neighborhoods” of focus and team space, with no assigned seats.
- 13 floors
- 283,135 sq ft inside (≈ 26,304 m²)
- 33,000 sq ft of terraces and roof garden (≈ 3,066 m²)
- Design: Henning Larsen
- Interiors: HOK
- Opened June 2024
The building
Henning Larsen designed the building; the twisted, terraced façade gives most floors outdoor space over the bay.
Facts: Henning Larsen project page and news (2024) · Visa Perspectives, “The future of work and commerce meet at Mission Rock” (June 7, 2024) · AlfaTech project page · DIRTT project page. Photos are shown with credit to the architect and engineers; we remove any photo on request.
Mission Rock and the Foster City campus
| Building | Address |
|---|---|
| Market Support Center (headquarters), Mission Rock Building G | Toni Stone Crossing at Dr. Maya Angelou Lane, San Francisco, CA 94158 |
| Foster City campus (technology and product teams) | Metro Center Boulevard at Vintage Park Drive, Foster City, CA 94404 |
Source: Visa Perspectives (June 7, 2024) · Visa press release (Nov 6, 2019) · Foster City location: Wikipedia · See them on the map ↓
Source: Henning Larsen · YA Studio · AlfaTech · DIRTT project pages · Visa Perspectives (June 7, 2024)
Benefits (United States)
Paid new-child bonding leave, with a minimum of 14 weeks for all parents.
In 2025 Visa put in $2 for every $1 on the first 5% of salary — up to 10% — and the match vests at once.
Buy Visa stock at up to 15% below the lower of the price at the start or the end of a six-month offering period.
Charitable gifts matched dollar-for-dollar, up to $10,000 per employee each year.
Hybrid employees (about 90% of roles) can work from another location for up to four weeks a year.
Onsite health centers, ergonomic consultations, immunizations, coaching and therapy.
Child and elder care services, plus personal and family care leave.
Paid Volunteering Time Off to give back to the community.
Source: 2025 Visa CRS Report (Total Rewards, Uplifting Communities) · Proxy statement, Dec 2025 (401k) · Visa ESPP terms, proxy statement 2014, Appendix B · corporate.visa.com/careers (VCA, locations) · visa.com/en-us/careers
Why people stay: what Visa itself says
About 6 in every 100 employees chose to leave in the 12 months to September 30, 2025.
Share of employees who would recommend Visa as a great place to work, in the latest engagement survey.
About 90% of roles are hybrid, and hybrid employees can work from another location for up to four weeks a year.
Active participation in UPLIFT, the peer-recognition program, in FY2025.
Learning pathways, leadership programs such as New to Visa People Leadership, and an educational assistance program.
Employees who used the in-house AI assistant between its launch in March 2025 and September 2025, in over 261,000 chats.
Source: Form 10-K FY2025, Talent and People · corporate.visa.com/careers (locations) · visa.com/en-us/careers
Who works here
employees at the end of FY2025, up 8% in a year
countries and territories with Visa employees
work outside the United States
say they are proud to work at Visa
Source: Form 10-K FY2025, Talent and People · 2025 CRS Report (engagement survey)
Pay at Visa
Worldwide, all employees except the CEO. The CEO earned 204 times this amount ($31,560,660).
Source: Visa proxy statement (DEF 14A), Dec 8, 2025 — CEO pay ratio
Source: Visa job postings REF088764W, REF087387W and REF084922W (visa.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com, Sept 2026). U.S. base salary only; bonus and equity may be added.
U.S. companies don't have to report pay by age, and Visa doesn't. The ranges above are the closest official numbers.
Compare Visa with: Mastercard
Office history: from a Fresno card drop to the San Francisco waterfront
- 1958 BankAmericard starts in Fresno
Bank of America launched BankAmericard, the first card with a “revolving credit” feature. The first cards went out in Fresno, California.
Source: corporate.visa.com, “What we do” timeline · city: Wikipedia
BankAmericard sign · jonrev / Public domain · Wikimedia Commons - 1970 National BankAmericard Inc., San Francisco
Dee Hock, who had gathered bankers in Sausalito in 1969 to rethink the card program, led the new member-owned company, National BankAmericard Inc. It launched VisaNet in 1973 and took the name Visa in 1976 — a name that sounds the same in every language.
Source: Visa Perspectives, “Dee Hock: In memoriam” (2022) · corporate.visa.com timeline · San Francisco base: Wikipedia
No free-to-use photo found yet.Have one? We’d love to add it. - 1985 San Mateo
Visa left San Francisco for San Mateo, on the Peninsula south of the city.
Source: Year: Wikipedia (street address not published)
No free-to-use photo found yet.Have one? We’d love to add it. - c. 1993 Foster City: four buildings of its own
Visa began pulling its scattered San Mateo offices together in neighboring Foster City. By 2007 the Bay Area headquarters was four buildings Visa owned, about 940,000 sq ft (≈ 87,329 m²).
Source: Form 10-K 2007, Item 2 · year: Wikipedia
900 Metro Center Blvd, Foster City · Coolcaesar / CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons - 2009 Top floors of 595 Market Street
After its 2008 IPO, Visa Inc. put its corporate headquarters on the top three floors of 595 Market Street in San Francisco. Most employees stayed in Foster City.
Source: IPO: corporate.visa.com · office: Wikipedia; Form 10-K covers list a San Francisco address
595 Market Street, San Francisco, 2021 · Dead.rabbit / CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons - 2012 Back to Foster City
On October 1, 2012 Visa closed the San Francisco office and moved its headquarters to the Foster City campus, where about 3,100 people already worked. Press releases from 2014 carry a Foster City dateline.
Source: Wikipedia · Visa press releases (2012 San Francisco, 2014 Foster City datelines)
Foster City, 2008 · Coolcaesar at en.wikipedia / CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons - 2019 A new headquarters is announced
Visa said it would lease a new 300,000 sq ft, 13-story building at Mission Rock in San Francisco as its global headquarters, and fully redesign the Foster City campus for its technology and product teams.
Source: Visa press release, Nov 6, 2019
No free-to-use photo found yet.Have one? We’d love to add it. - 2024 Mission Rock opens
The Market Support Center at Toni Stone Crossing and Dr. Maya Angelou Lane opened in June 2024. Nearly 1,000 employees had already moved in.
Source: Visa Perspectives, June 7, 2024
Mission Rock, 2025 · Missvain / CC0 · Wikimedia Commons
| Annual report | HQ space (sq ft) | m² | As described |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10-K 2007 | 940,000 | 87,329 | Bay Area HQ: four owned buildings |
| 10-K 2010 | 944,000 | 87,700 | Bay Area HQ: four owned buildings |
| 10-K 2016 | ≈ 1,000,000 | ≈ 92,903 | 0.9 million owned + 0.1 million leased |
| 2024 | ≈ 300,000 | ≈ 27,871 | Mission Rock headquarters building (leased) |
Map: how the headquarters moved
From a card drop in Fresno to the Peninsula and back: for most of its life Visa worked from San Mateo and Foster City, about 30 km south of San Francisco. In 2024 it returned to the city, to the waterfront across from Oracle Park.
- 1 · 1958Fresno — BankAmericard launched by Bank of America
- 2 · 1970San Francisco — National BankAmericard Inc. (street address not published)
- 3 · 1985San Mateo — Headquarters moves down the Peninsula (street address not published)
- 4 · c. 1993Foster City — Four owned buildings on Metro Center Boulevard
- 5 · 2009595 Market Street, San Francisco — Corporate headquarters on the top three floors
- 6 · 2012Foster City — Headquarters consolidated back on the campus
- 7 · 2024Mission Rock, San Francisco — Market Support Center, Toni Stone Crossing — headquarters today
Addresses: Form 10-K · Visa press releases and Visa Perspectives · Wikipedia (years, Foster City and 595 Market) · Map: © OpenStreetMap contributors
What Visa does
Visa does not issue cards or lend money. It runs the network — VisaNet — that carries payments between the shopper's bank and the shop's bank, and charges for that. In FY2025 that meant nearly 5 billion Visa credentials, more than 175 million merchant locations and $17 trillion in payments and cash volume.
Revenue is reported by type: service, data processing, international transaction and other revenue, minus incentives paid to clients.
Where the money came from · Revenue by type · FY2025 (before $15.8B of client incentives)
Source: Form 10-K FY2025 (fiscal year ended Sept 30, 2025), Item 1 and Item 7
Source: Form 10-K FY2025 · per-employee figure calculated by eciffo
Growth: revenue vs. people
$15.1B → $40.0B
17,000 → 34,100
Fiscal years end September 30 (FY2025 ended Sept 30, 2025). Revenue: SEC XBRL financial data from Visa's 10-K filings. Employees (approximate): Form 10-K FY2018–FY2025; the FY2016 and FY2017 10-Ks give no headcount. Multiples calculated by eciffo.
Chief executives
CEO since February 1, 2023. Joined Visa in June 2013 and was President before that.
CEO from December 1, 2016 to February 2023; chairman from 2019. Announced the Mission Rock headquarters in 2019.
Former Visa director, named CEO in 2012; resigned effective December 1, 2016.
CEO from 2007, through the 2008 IPO; then executive chairman.
BankAmericard was launched by Bank of America in 1958. Dee Hock led National BankAmericard Inc. from 1970 and is honored by Visa as its founder and CEO emeritus.
Source: investor.visa.com (management team, CEO succession releases 2012, 2016 and 2022) · Visa Perspectives, “Dee Hock: In memoriam”
Visa: questions people ask
Where is Visa's headquarters?
In San Francisco's Mission Rock neighborhood: the 13-story Market Support Center on Toni Stone Crossing at Dr. Maya Angelou Lane, across the water from Oracle Park. It opened in June 2024. Visa's 10-K describes its headquarters as located in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Source: Visa Perspectives (June 2024) · Form 10-K FY2025
Who designed Visa's headquarters?
Henning Larsen of Copenhagen designed the building, inspired by the basalt columns of Devils Postpile National Monument. Adamson Associates was executive architect, HOK designed the interiors and AlfaTech did the engineering and smart-building systems.
Source: Henning Larsen · YA Studio · AlfaTech · DIRTT
How big is Visa's headquarters?
About 300,000 sq ft on 13 floors. The engineers give 283,135 sq ft (≈ 26,304 m²) of interior space plus 33,000 sq ft (≈ 3,066 m²) of terraces and roof garden.
Source: Visa press release (2019) · AlfaTech
When did Visa move from Foster City to San Francisco?
Visa announced the move in November 2019 and opened the Mission Rock building in June 2024. The Foster City campus was redesigned for Visa's technology and product teams.
Source: Visa press release, Nov 6, 2019 · Visa Perspectives, June 7, 2024
Does Visa allow remote or hybrid work?
Yes. About 90% of Visa's roles are hybrid, and hybrid employees can work from another location for up to four weeks a year, where the law allows.
Source: corporate.visa.com/careers (locations)
What benefits does Visa offer?
In the U.S.: at least 14 weeks of paid new-child bonding leave for every parent, a 401(k) match of 200% on the first 5% of salary, a stock purchase plan at up to 15% off, donation matching up to $10,000 a year, onsite health centers and child and elder care services.
Source: 2025 CRS Report · Proxy statement, Dec 2025 · Visa careers
How much do Visa employees make?
The median employee's total compensation was $154,909 in fiscal 2025. September 2026 San Francisco postings listed base pay of $161,400–$258,500 for a Product Manager and $192,300–$307,600 for a Director.
Source: Proxy statement, Dec 2025 · Visa job postings REF088764W, REF084922W
How many people work at Visa?
About 34,100 at the end of fiscal 2025 (September 30, 2025), in 86 countries and territories. More than 60% work outside the United States.
Source: Form 10-K FY2025
Who is Visa's CEO?
Ryan McInerney, CEO since February 1, 2023. He joined Visa in 2013 and was President before becoming CEO.
Source: investor.visa.com
Where did Visa start?
As BankAmericard, launched by Bank of America in Fresno, California, in 1958. It became National BankAmericard Inc. in 1970 and took the name Visa in 1976.
Source: corporate.visa.com timeline · Visa Perspectives · Wikipedia (Fresno)
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