Description
Mastercard's Privacy, Regulatory, and Technology team is seeking a Senior Counsel to provide support to the Services Business & Market Insights vertical, with a focus on the Enterprise and Credit Risk (ECR) product family.
The successful candidate will work closely with product, business, legal, regulatory, and technical stakeholders to translate a complex and evolving legal landscape into practical requirements for product development, data governance, contracting, and market expansion.
Key responsibilities:
- Serve as the primary legal lead for matters relating to Mastercard's ECR products.
- Advise business, product, and technical teams throughout the product lifecycle, including privacy by design and regulatory reviews of new products, features, data uses, models, and go-to-market approaches.
- Establish and maintain legal compliance frameworks and internal controls addressing privacy, credit reporting, consent management, data subject rights, AI and automated decision-making, and model risk management.
- Coordinate legal analysis across jurisdictions and develop consistent positions for the application of local credit risk, privacy, AI, data use, and related regulatory requirements.
- Support the review of new markets and strategic partnerships, including the use of outside counsel where local legal analysis is required.
- Draft, review, and negotiate contract terms with strategic partners and key customers.
- Communicate legal requirements, risk assessments, open issues, and proposed controls clearly to business leaders, product teams, technical stakeholders, and other members of the Law Department.
Requirements:
- Juris Doctor from an accredited law school and admission to practice law in at least one U.S. jurisdiction.
- Advanced expertise in privacy and data protection law, with meaningful experience advising on credit reporting, lending, financial services, or other regulated data uses.
- Experience advising on AI, automated decision-making, model governance, data analytics, or related technology and data governance issues.
- Ability to analyze complex product and data architectures, identify applicable legal requirements across jurisdictions, and translate those requirements into practical controls and contractual terms.
- Strong written and oral communication skills, sound judgment, and the ability to work effectively with legal, business, product, regulatory, and technical stakeholders in a global organization.
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