Senior Counsel, Commercial Verticals

Job Title:

Senior Counsel, Commercial Verticals

Overview:

Senior Counsel, Commercial Verticals, Mastercard Commercial and New Payment Flows

Overview
Our Commercial and New Payment Flows ("CNPF") organization is making payments smarter and businesses stronger with our commercial cards, working capital, and money movement solutions.

The Commercial Verticals team is a part of CNPF and is responsible for scaling CNPF products and services within specialized industry segments, including Travel, Transportation, Healthcare and Embedded Finance platforms.

Mastercard is seeking an experienced lawyer to join our global legal team to support the Commercial Verticals team in business development and sales activities.

The role will be based in Purchase, Atlanta or London.

Role
This Senior Counsel role requires strong commercial acumen and experience in supporting business development and commercialization. The role will support the development and distribution of CNPF offerings, including drafting and negotiating contracts, and legal risk management related to B2B payments automation and cross-border payment platforms. The key responsibilities for the role include:

• 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.

All About You

• 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.To find US Salary Ranges, visit People Place. Under the Compensation tab, select "Salary Structures." Within the text of "Salary Structures," click on the link "salary structures 2025," through which you will be able to access the salary ranges for each Mastercard job family. For more information regarding US benefits, visit People Place and review the Benefits tab and the Time Off & Leave tab.

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