Senior Counsel - Blockchain & Digital Currencies

Our Purpose Mastercard powers economies and empowers people in 200 countries and territories worldwide. Together with our customers, we’re helping build a sustainable economy where everyone can prosper. We support a wide range of digital payments choices, making transactions secure, simple, smart and accessible. Our technology and innovation, partnerships and networks combine to deliver a unique set of products and services that help people, businesses and governments realize their greatest potential. Title and Summary Senior Counsel - Blockchain & Digital Currencies Senior Counsel, Blockchain & Digital Currencies Overview Mastercard is looking for an experienced lawyer to join the legal team to support Blockchain and Digital Currencies. This role will report into the Senior Managing Counsel for Blockchain and Digital Currencies. You will provide legal support and guidance on extending blockchain and digital currencies capabilities to financial services. You will be part of a highly agile team, building exciting and innovative products delivered at scale to global markets. You will play a leading role in supporting the team dedicated to managing the governance aspects of Mastercard’s regulated products, including supporting and maintaining Mastercard’s digital currency licenses, once granted. From time to time you will be expected to work on other matters within the Core Payments business that may be outside of Blockchain & Digital Currencies. This role requires strong commercial knowledge and experience in the technology and financial/payment services space, ideally with experience working with emerging technology including distributed ledger technology, digital assets, stablecoins and crypto currency. In this role, you will act as an advisor for product and sales clients to help enable the delivery of the commercial objectives and business strategy. The ideal candidate is highly motivated, intellectually curious and analytical, dedicated to delivering strategic and hands-on legal support and partnership to develop the next generation of Mastercard products focused on enabling the future of payments. Role As Senior Counsel, you will be a member of the legal team. You will take a major role in handling product development and support matters for the business, identifying and analyzing relevant issues and helping the business effectively navigate legal, governance and regulatory risks and implement appropriate controls, policies and processes. You will: • Focus on legal support for the strategic development, and daily operations of Mastercard’s global Blockchain and Digital Currencies teams’ products and services. • Provide tactical and strategic legal support on products and solutions to advance Mastercard’s corporate objectives, including Mastercard’s blockchain and digital currencies strategy. • Advise on the governance aspects of Mastercard’s digital currency licenses, when granted, and act as primary liaison to the team that oversees the governance aspects of Mastercard’s regulated products. • Develop strong relationships with business, sales and senior management within the business units that you support. • Collaborate with product, technology, sales, franchise, marketing, communications, regulatory and others to develop and launch innovative products and solutions that differentiate Mastercard and meet our customers’ and cardholders’ rapidly changing needs. • Provide solutions-oriented guidance to and assist clients in managing and mitigating legal and commercial risks • Assist in the monitoring and evaluation of laws and regulations affecting Mastercard’s digital currencies business. • Inform policy and regulatory positions related to Mastercard’s digital currencies products with internal and external stakeholders. • Advise clients through the product development cycle, from concept, to launch and commercialization, including, any, regulated products: • ensuring alignment and compliance of products and servic ... (truncated, view full listing at source)