Description
The Capital One Legal Department is seeking an experienced and collaborative corporate trained deal / product attorney to join our Global Payment Network Legal team, to lead our legal strategy and business growth across Latin America, the Caribbean, and Canada (LACC).
In this high-impact role, you will serve as a key strategic partner and important voice within the business, helping drive growth across LACC. You will provide essential legal advice and support on a variety of commercial initiatives and transactions for the Discover Global Payment Network, working closely with business and legal partners across the organization.
Responsibilities:
- Providing expert counsel and strategic guidance across a critical spectrum of areas impacting commercial relationships, including commercial contracting and risk identification and mitigation
- Negotiating, drafting, and guiding implementation of commercial agreements, working in close collaboration with legal and business colleagues and other subject matter experts
- Supporting credit, fintech and payment innovation related new product initiatives and innovation across the global network
- Supporting the development and maintenance of products, rules, contracts and the network ecosystem as it relates to these high growth and high priority regions
- Identifying and supporting process improvements to promote agility in legal and related business operations, including contract template improvements
- Partnering collaboratively with other internal counsel and business teams across the enterprise
- Partnering with Risk and Compliance teams to ensure comprehensive support
Requirements:
- Ability to understand complex topics quickly with depth that allows for concise and simple advice
- Problem solving mentality rather than thinking only like a legal technician
- Excellent judgment with the ability to predict long-term consequences
- Growth mindset with an openness to new ideas, diverse perspectives, and unconventional solutions
- Strong people skills - we're looking for someone who can build collegial and effective relationships with colleagues and clients
- Ownership mentality, thinking like an owner vs. an employee
- Solid time management skills with the ability to prioritize a significant volume of work and to manage multiple deadlines
- Excellent communication skills with the ability to influence others and write concisely
Basic Qualifications:
- Juris Doctor from an accredited law school
- Active member in good standing of at least one state bar
- At least 6 years of experience as an attorney in a law firm environment, at a government agency, as a military judge advocate, or as in-house counsel
Preferred Qualifications:
- 7+ years of experience as an attorney in a law firm environment, at a government agency, as a military judge advocate, or as in-house counsel
- Bilingual in English and Spanish
The minimum and maximum full-time annual salaries for this role are: Chicago, IL: $182,500 - $208,300 McLean, VA: $200,700 - $229,100 New York, NY: $219,000 - $249,900 Richmond, VA: $182,500 - $208,300 Riverwoods, IL: $182,500 - $208,300
This role is also eligible to earn performance-based incentive compensation, which may include cash bonus(es) and/or long-term incentives (LTI).
Capital One offers a comprehensive, competitive, and inclusive set of health, financial and other benefits that support your total well-being.