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Mastercard’s Cyber & Intelligence Solutions team is part of Mastercard’s global product and services group, and provides strategic and cutting edge safety, security, identity, authentication and fraud solutions to Mastercard’s customers and cardholders.
Mastercard is searching for a technology and transactional lawyer to provide commercial sales legal support and counsel to the C&I North America product team.

Role
This full-time role based in Purchase, NY will support the sales opportunities in various new and emerging technologies, relating to cyber and intelligence. Reporting into the Vice President for Mastercard’s C&I Legal team for Region Counsel, Security and Cyber Intelligence and Integrations, you will take a major role in providing commercial and product support for the business. You will:

• Work with business in bringing to market and/or scaling various products
• Provide support to the C&I global and NAM regional and sales teams to support product sales initiatives.
• Provide legal advice to the business on a wide range of commercial and contractual matters.
• Create, draft and negotiate technology sales and reseller agreements
• Manage contractual negotiations with financial institutions, service providers, merchants and vendors.
• Work with internal and external regulatory counsel relating to the impact of local laws, government regulations and directives on C&I solutions.
• Provide legal and business risk assessment and analysis on matters from new product constructs sales agreements and go to market strategies; specific to the NAM region;
• Take responsibility for special projects while continuing to handle a steady stream of day-to-day matters.
• Ensure compliance with company policies and procedures.
• Manage external counsel within agreed policy and budget.
• Develop strong relationships with product development, business, sales, and senior management within the company.
• Provide applicable training to the LFI, sales and product teams.

All About You

• Qualified NY lawyer with a solid academic and training background.
• Extensive legal experience, preferably including in-house experience; government contracting and/or government cyber experience would be a specific plus
• Experience in technology, security and/or payments agreements is a distinct advantage.
• Strong business acumen, and a keen interest in technology.
• Strong drafting and negotiating skills across a range of complex commercial contracts and the ability to analyze and identify core legal issues.
• Fast learner who can gain rapid familiarity with complex and evolving products and solutions.
• 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.

Due to COVID-19, most of our employees are working from home. We’ve implemented a virtual hiring process and continue to interview candidates by phone or video and are onboarding new hires remotely. We value the safety of each member of our community because we know we’re all in this together.

Mastercard is an inclusive Equal Employment Opportunity employer that considers applicants without regard to gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, ethnicity, disabled or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

If you require accommodations or assistance to complete the online application process, please contact reasonable.accommodation@mastercard.com and identify the type of accommodation or assistance you are requesting. Do not include any medical or health information in this email. The Reasonable Accommodations team will respond to your email promptly.

Corporate Security Responsibility

Every person working for, or on behalf of, Mastercard is responsible for information security. All activities involving access to Mastercard assets, information, and networks comes with an inherent risk to the organization and therefore, it is expected that the successful candidate for this position must:

• Abide by Mastercard’s security policies and practices;
• Ensure the confidentiality and integrity of the information being accessed;
• Report any suspected information security violation or breach, and
• Complete all periodic mandatory security trainings in accordance with Mastercard’s guidelines.