# Senior Counsel, Privacy - Blockchain & Digital Assets

**Company**: Mastercard
**Location**: Purchase, New York
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $204,000 - $325,000 USD
**Category**: Legal
**Industry**: Finance

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## Description

Mastercard is looking for an experienced privacy lawyer to support its evolving digital assets ecosystem from a privacy and data protection standpoint.

The ideal candidate will have the ability to think and act both strategically and tactically with respect to the needs of tech-focused business clients and their objectives while ensuring that the corporation remains compliant with privacy, cyber, and data-related laws and regulations.

Responsibilities:

- Analyze payment, digital asset, blockchain, stablecoin, fraud, and related technology solutions in light of privacy and data protection requirements

- Provide day-to-day support to business teams supporting digital assets, crypto payments, stablecoins, fraud, cross-border payments, and other emerging payment initiatives

- Support the integration and ongoing operation of BVNK and related acquired or strategic businesses

- Support the development and implementation of U.S. privacy compliance measures

- Increase awareness among business clients, global privacy and legal teams regarding privacy and cyber security pertaining to payment, digital asset, blockchain, stablecoin, fraud, and related technology solutions

- Monitor regulatory and legislative developments pertaining to crypto payments, stablecoins, blockchain technology, cross-border payments, embedded finance, identity verification, GLBA, DOJ bulk data transfer rules

- Develop contract structures that address privacy and data protection requirements

- Identify opportunities to improve privacy processes, controls, and governance for emerging payment and digital asset products

Requirements:

- Law degree required

- Solid expertise in and track record dealing with privacy law

- Experience advising on privacy or data protection issues involving financial services, fintech, digital asset products, stablecoins or other digital currencies, and the use of public and private blockchains is preferred

- Experience advising on U.S. privacy, financial privacy, or data security requirements, including GLBA, is preferred

- Familiarity with financial services industry and payment processing

- Ability to gain rapid familiarity with complex products, services, and legal frameworks

- Superior time management, planning, and organizational skills

- Strong analytical, writing, and speaking skills

- Exceptional interpersonal skills with proven experience in relationship building and partnering

- Strong business acumen

- Fluent English

## Skills

### Required
- privacy law
- data protection
- financial services
- fintech
- blockchain
- cryptocurrency

### Nice to have
- GLBA
- DOJ Data Security Program
- U.S. privacy
- financial privacy
- data security

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