Senior Counsel, Commercial Verticals
TASC
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Office
Location: Purchase • New York • 🇺🇸 United States
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💰 $187,000 - $300,000 per year
Job Level
Senior
About the role
- Partnering with product, sales, franchise, marketing, and other teams to develop and launch innovative products and solutions that differentiate Mastercard and meet our customers’ rapidly changing needs.
- Structuring and negotiating a wide range of contracts (including complex technology agreements, customer and vendor agreements) to drive issuer, merchant acceptance and adoption of our CNPF products and services.
- Collaborating with in-house and external specialists (including regulatory, compliance, data protection, and intellectual property counsel) to identify relevant issues and help the business effectively navigate legal risks.
- Providing support to the Commercial Verticals business development teams to support product sales initiatives.
- Advising business on a wide range of commercial and contractual matters including legal and business risk assessment and analysis on diverse matters from new product constructs to commercial agreements.
- Taking responsibility for high profile projects while continuing to handle a steady stream of day-to-day matters.
- Ensuring compliance with Mastercard’s policies and procedures and providing applicable training to the business.
- Managing external counsel within agreed policy and budget.
Requirements
- Qualified lawyer with a solid academic and training background, licensed in the relevant jurisdiction with at least seven years´ experience in the relevant fields of practice.
- Extensive legal experience, preferably including in-house work experience.
- Familiarity with laws and regulations in the commercial banking and payments space will be considered favorably.
- Ability to grasp complex new business concepts and develop and implement creative approaches to problems while identifying and balancing risks with results.
- Strong business acumen, and a keen interest in technology.
- Strong drafting and negotiating skills across a range of complex commercial contracts with excellent attention to detail and the ability to analyze and identify core legal issues.
- Exposure to a broad range of transactional, commercial and technology law issues.
- Strong working knowledge of data privacy and intellectual property issues.
- Team player and great attitude.
- Self-starter and ability to work independently.
- Experience working on global agreements, across multiple jurisdictions and time zones.
- Solutions-orientated and able to work flexibly, under pressure, and with tight deadlines.
- Lively interest in the business of Mastercard and an enjoyment of working in a fast-paced environment.
Benefits
- insurance (including medical, prescription drug, dental, vision, disability, life insurance)
- flexible spending account and health savings account
- paid leaves (including 16 weeks of new parent leave and up to 20 days of bereavement leave)
- 80 hours of Paid Sick and Safe Time, 25 days of vacation time and 5 personal days, pro-rated based on date of hire
- 10 annual paid U.S. observed holidays
- 401k with a best-in-class company match
- deferred compensation for eligible roles
- fitness reimbursement or on-site fitness facilities
- eligibility for tuition reimbursement
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard skills
contract negotiationlegal risk assessmentcommercial lawtechnology lawdata privacyintellectual propertydrafting skillstransactional lawcompliancebusiness acumen
Soft skills
team playerself-starterproblem-solvingattention to detailflexibilityability to work under pressurestrong communicationindependent workcreativityadaptability
Certifications
licensed lawyer