Senior Counsel (Services Business & Market Insights)

Join Mastercard's Privacy, AI, and Data Responsibility (PAIR) group as a Senior Counsel. In this role, you will support the Services Business & Market Insights (BMI) vertical as a product counsel, advising on legal requirements and operational guardrails. You will draft and negotiate contracts, advise business stakeholders on regulations, and work with cross-functional teams. A minimum of 5 years of experience in privacy, AI, and data protection law is required.

• Support the development of complex, data-driven products across the entire product lifecycle, including coordination among legal and strategic specialists.
• Draft and negotiate contracts for the sale of Services BMI products in coordination with legal colleagues, and advise business stakeholders on understanding and applying layers of regulation and internal rules.
• Advise PAIR colleagues as an expert on Mastercard’s anonymization controls, aggregation techniques, and data storage environments, and use generative AI prompting and agent orchestration best practices to enhance legal research and contract drafting.
• Experience: 5+ years practicing law with a specialization in privacy, AI, and/or data protection law required, preferably including law firm experience
• Use direct, concise, and context-aware writing, presentation technique, and oral communication
• Ability to explain the significance of legal and reputational risk in business terms
• Work with minimal supervision
• Draft and negotiate data processing agreements
• Use generative AI prompting and agent orchestration best practices to enhance legal research and contract drafting, and make day-to-day work efficient
• Have intellectual curiosity and willingness to proactively suggest solutions
• Work within, and coordinate, cross-functional teams, and communicate with C-suite executives
• Apply de-identification techniques and Privacy Enhancing Technologies
• Know, or be willing to learn, skills unique to the position: card payment processing data flows (including open finance / open banking); basic competition, antitrust, and securities law; advertising technology and data flows, credit reporting / credit bureau regulation; data analytics techniques and terminology; data flow diagramming