Senior Counsel, Mastercard
Data & Services
$163-300k
Global payments technology company
Posted today
Global payments technology company
1001+ employees
Posted today
$163-300k
1001+ employees
Company mission
To connect and power an inclusive, digital economy that benefits everyone, everywhere by making transactions safe, simple, smart, and accessible.
Role
Who you are
- Solid transactional training and experience (preferably from a highly reputable law firm and extensive in-house experience); must have strong drafting and negotiations skills with the ability to manage complex issues and deal structure
- Ability to manage, perform and enjoy repeatable and high-volume work in addition to strategic and unique issues
- Must be pragmatic, solutions-oriented, business-friendly, creative, thought provoker, and an advocate for the business and have a “let’s make it happen” attitude; must have leadership skills in bringing different perspectives together and work through competing priorities
- Must be able to work independently and collaboratively, including with global colleagues, but also take direction from manager and other team members, as appropriate
- Must multi-task effectively in an extremely fast-paced team environment with short turnaround times
- Must have strong communication skills to interact with clients and colleagues
- Must be a team player and willing to take on responsibilities and roles that support the team, region, department and the company
- Must be interested in significant contact with the business clients on a daily basis with respect to transactional issues as well as other strategic issues that have a significant impact on Mastercard's operations, strategies and financial performance
- A Juris Doctorate degree and admitted to bar and in good standing
What the job involves
- Mastercard is looking for an energized corporate/commercial attorney to join its dynamic legal team to serve as a legal partner to Data & Services (D&S) group of Mastercard. Mastercard D&S provides end-to-end solutions through its innovative and proprietary transaction data analyses, data-driven consulting, and marketing and loyalty services to help our clients strategically optimize, streamline, and grow their businesses
- Under the direction of the VP, Senior Managing Counsel, Data & Services, this position will provide legal and general support for the Mastercard D&S commercial business
- Structure, draft, and negotiate high-volume commercial contracts ranging from simple statements of work to complex partnership and novel/strategic deals. Typical agreements include transactional agreements, consulting agreements, platform agreements and SaaS agreements
- Collaborate with legal colleagues on product development, product management and go-to-market implementation
- Be a strategic partner and trusted advisor to a demanding business unit; counseling the business on deal matters as well as general business matters; engage in a high level of interaction with business clients
- Manage wide-ranging issues such as data usage/privacy, intellectual property, compliance, regulatory, and tax by partnering with subject matter experts in these areas and other stakeholder teams and balancing these issues against reputational risk to ensure product constructs and commercial agreements are consistent with corporate strategy, internal policies and procedures and applicable laws and regulations
- Provide support to international colleagues as needed
- Assist Senior Managing Counsel with projects relating to creating and managing efficiencies and capabilities that will optimize the current operating model; harmonizing go-to-market across D&S commercial business globally; advancing the objectives of the D&S commercial business, and administration of such projects
Our take
Mastercard is in the global payments business, and operates the world's fastest payments processing network. Its products and solutions have become central to everyday commerce across the world, in activities ranging from shopping and travelling to running businesses.
As the economy has become more and more digitised, Mastercard has been a leading player in helping businesses and individuals across the globe embrace card payments and digital banking. One of the world's largest companies, its revenue has seen consistent gain in the last 20 years.
The challenge for modern payments companies is that payments are always changing, as seen in the astronomical rise of contactless payments over the last decade. Mastercard's acquisition of blockchain systems, and an overall focus on leveraging its technology towards a digital economy, has placed the company in good stead to keep up to date with current trends, like cryptocurrency, in the digitised payments world.
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Company benefits
- Gym membership
- Share purchase options
- Extra holiday purchase optional
- Work from home opportunities
- Health insurance
Company values
- Trust - integrity, respect, openness
- Agility - urgency and value through innovation
- Partnership - working as one team for the benefit of all
- Initiative - taking bold and thoughtful actions
Company HQ
Purchase, Harrison, NY
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Leadership
Michael Miebach
(CEO, not founder)Has served in a variety of roles at the company, including President and CPO. Currently Board Member at IBM, Accion, the World Resources Institute, the US-India Strategic Partnership Forum, and the Metropolitan Opera. They are also a Trustee of USCIB.
People progressing
Joined as VP in 2008, promoted 4 times in 11 years to their current position of Executive Vice President.
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