Senior Managing Counsel, Americas Lead - Mastercard Commercial and New Payment Flows

Role
This full-time role will report to the Assistant General Counsel for CNPF Regions & Verticals and will be a key member of the global CNPF legal leadership team. The successful candidate will lead a team of lawyers and provide counsel to senior business leaders across the Americas.
The role requires deep expertise in commercial transactions, product development, regulatory compliance, and team leadership in the financial services or technology sectors.
The key responsibilities for the role include:
• Lead and manage a high-performing legal team supporting Corporate Solutions, SME, and Transfer Solutions across the Americas.
• Serve as the primary legal advisor to regional business leadership on legal, regulatory, and strategic matters.
• Serve as a senior legal leader within the CNPF legal team, helping shape legal strategy, team operations, and cross-vertical collaboration across the broader Law department.
• Draft, review and negotiate a wide range of complex agreements, including technology, customer, vendor, and partnership contracts.
• Partner with product, technology, sales, franchise, marketing, and other teams to launch and scale innovative products that meet our customers' rapidly changing needs.
• Collaborate with in-house and external specialists (including regulatory, compliance, data privacy, and intellectual property counsel) to identify and mitigate risks.
• Align legal resources with business priorities to maximize impact, including coordination with shared services and external counsel.
• Drive process improvements and legal transformation initiatives to enhance efficiency and ease of doing business.
• Ensure compliance with Mastercard's policies and procedures and provide training to the business on legal processes, risks, and regulatory developments.
• Coach and mentor team members, while acting as a resource for other Law department colleagues.

All About You
• Qualified lawyer with solid academic and training background, licensed to practice in the US.
• 10+ years of legal work experience, including significant in-house experience in financial services or technology.
• People management experience and skilled in leading, coaching and developing talent.
• Strong commercial and transactional experience, including complex technology and financial services agreements.
• Ability to grasp complex new business concepts and to implement creative approaches to problems while identifying and balancing risks with results.
• Strong working knowledge of data privacy and intellectual property issues.
• Familiarity with laws and regulations in the commercial banking and payments space will be considered favorably.
• Team player and great attitude and willingness to take on a variety of responsibilities and roles that support the team, department and company.
• Self-starter and ability to work independently.
• Solution-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.

Mastercard is a merit-based, inclusive, equal 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. We hire the most qualified candidate for the role. In the US or Canada, if you require accommodations or assistance to complete the online application process or during the recruitment 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

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

In line with Mastercard's total compensation philosophy and assuming that the job will be performed in the US, the successful candidate will be offered a competitive base salary and may be eligible for an annual bonus or commissions depending on the role. The base salary offered may vary depending on multiple factors, including but not limited to location, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Mastercard benefits for full time (and certain part time) employees generally include: insurance (including medical, prescription drug, dental, vision, disability, life insurance); flexible spending account and health savings account; paid leaves (including 16 weeks of new parent leave and up to 20 days of bereavement leave); 80 hours of Paid Sick and Safe Time, 25 days of vacation time and 5 personal days, pro-rated based on date of hire; 10 annual paid U.S. observed holidays; 401k with a best-in-class company match; deferred compensation for eligible roles; fitness reimbursement or on-site fitness facilities; eligibility for tuition reimbursement; and many more.

Pay Ranges
Purchase, New York: $221,000 - $353,000 USD

Client-provided location(s): Scarsdale, NY

Job ID: Mastercard-22331_R-258631

Employment Type: FULL_TIME

Posted: 2025-08-22T19:21:32