# Senior Counsel, Services - Privacy, AI & Data Responsibility

**Company**: Mastercard
**Location**: Toronto
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $150,000 - $234,000 CAD
**Category**: Legal
**Industry**: Finance

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## Description

Mastercard is seeking a Senior Counsel to serve as a dedicated Canadian privacy and data responsibility counsel supporting Mastercard's products, services, and go-to-market activities in Canada.

The Senior Counsel will work closely with product, regional, regulatory, commercial, and global privacy stakeholders to help Mastercard bring innovative products and services to the Canadian market in a responsible, compliant, and scalable way.

Key responsibilities include:

- Serving as the Canadian Data Protection Officer for the Services business

- Acting as the lead legal advisor on Canadian privacy, AI, data protection, consumer protection, and related regulatory matters

- Providing practical legal guidance to product, business, and legal teams on Canadian go-to-market readiness

- Advising on Canadian federal and provincial privacy frameworks to ensure compliance with applicable privacy and data protection laws

- Partnering with product privacy counsel to localize global products and services for the Canadian market

- Reviewing privacy and data protection impact assessments, transfer assessments, product risk assessments, external disclosures, customer communications, marketing materials, and public representations for Canadian legal and regulatory alignment

- Supporting Canadian regulatory readiness, including helping teams prepare for inquiries, consultations, regulatory submissions, customer escalations, and market-specific questions

- Developing contract structures, templates, and playbooks that address privacy and data protection requirements

- Monitoring and interpreting U.S. and Canadian regulatory and legislative developments relating to privacy, AI, data protection, consumer protection, digital regulation, product governance, and data use

- Increasing awareness among business clients and global privacy and legal teams regarding privacy, data protection, and regulatory developments pertaining to Mastercard

Requirements:

- Canadian law degree required

- Membership in good standing with a Canadian provincial bar

- A minimum of eight years post qualification experience, preferably advising on technology, payments, fintech, fraud prevention, identity, analytics, digital services, or data-enabled products

- Deep knowledge of Canadian privacy and data protection laws, including PIPEDA, Quebec Law 25 and other provincial privacy frameworks, Canadian consumer protection principles, and emerging AI and digital regulation

- Familiarity with U.S., EU, and global privacy frameworks, including GDPR, CCPA/CPRA, and other major privacy and AI governance regimes

- Experience advising product teams on go-to-market strategy, product design, data use, privacy-by-design, transparency, consent, automated decision-making, data sharing, and cross-border transfers

- Experience designing and implementing compliance controls, assessing regulatory readiness, and completing risk and impact assessments

- Strong drafting, analytical, communication, and stakeholder-management skills

Benefits:

- Competitive pay based on location, experience, and other qualifications

- Eligibility to participate in a discretionary annual incentive program

## Skills

### Required
- Canadian law
- privacy and data protection laws
- PIPEDA
- Quebec Law 25
- GDPR
- CCPA/CPRA
- AI and digital regulation
- product design
- data use
- compliance controls
- regulatory readiness

### Nice to have
- Master of Laws degree
- IAPP Certifications
- French

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