Senior Counsel

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 WHO IS MASTERCARD? Mastercard is a global technology company in the payments industry. Our mission is to connect and power an inclusive, digital economy that benefits everyone, everywhere by making transactions safe, simple, smart, and accessible. Using secure data and networks, partnerships and passion, our innovations and solutions help individuals, financial institutions, governments, and businesses realize their greatest potential. Our decency quotient, or DQ, drives our culture and everything we do inside and outside of our company. With connections across more than 210 countries and territories, we are building a sustainable world that unlocks priceless possibilities for all. OVERVIEW Mastercard is looking for an experienced lawyer to be responsible for comprehensive, end-to-end, strategic legal counsel and support to the global Financial Inclusion, Sustainability, Debit and Prepaid product teams. Mastercard’s legal team is a critical part of the business, helping to drive the identification, development and distribution of products and solutions that meet the needs of various market stakeholders. The candidate will be part of a highly agile team, building exciting and innovative products. The ideal candidate is a curious, self-motivated, sustainability and technology-minded lawyer with extensive transactional and product experience. The candidate must demonstrate sound business and legal judgment, thrive in a fast-paced environment with a diverse workload, and have a proven track record of providing pragmatic and proactive legal advice. The candidate must be able to engage at both the tactical and strategic levels to support his or her internal clients. This full-time role is based in Purchase, New York and reports to a Senior Managing Counsel in the Core Payments legal team. ROLE As Senior Counsel, the candidate will handle product development and support matters for the business on a day-to-day basis, identifying and analyzing relevant issues and helping the business effectively navigate legal, governance and regulatory risks and implement appropriate controls. This role will: • Provide legal oversight during ideation, prototype, pilot and commercialization of Mastercard’s financial inclusion and sustainability products and services • Support the Global product team in negotiating commercial transactions to pilot and commercialize debit, prepaid, financial inclusion and sustainability programs • Draft and negotiate a wide range of contracts (including complex product and technology agreements, partnership and pilot agreements, memoranda of understanding, licenses, and terms of enrollment) to drive sustained scalable distribution, adoption and acceptance of our products and services • Identify, manage and mitigate legal and commercial risks within new product consumer experiences and transaction flows • Work cross-functionally with various product and legal teams, including data privacy, intellectual property, anti-trust, regulatory affairs, public policy, and franchise functions to provide holistic support to Mastercard’s global and regional products strategy • Work with internal and external regulatory counsel and regional colleagues to help ensure compliance with laws and government regulations relating to Mastercard's consumer products • Review and revise sales materials, program terms & conditions and marketing materials as technical solutions evolve • Assist with the creati ... (truncated, view full listing at source)