The Senior Corporate Counsel role is to act as a legal adviser with a focus on fintech/payments products. The core part of the role will be advising on contract negotiations, new product creation and engaging with other teams across U.S. Bank Europe DAC and its parent U.S. Bank National Association.

Principal Accountabilities:U.S. Bank both develops proprietary payment solutions and partners with industry-leading companies to offer their products to our customers. This role will support both internal product development and partner relationships providingend to end legal guidance throughout the product development lifecycle, including concept development, design, build, launch readiness, commercialization, and ongoing operations. This includes:

• Leading negotiation and drafting of complex technology, commercial, and reseller agreements.

• Evaluating and mitigating legal and business risks associated with products, contracts, andthird partyengagements.

• Ensuring global product initiativescomply withregulatory, contractual, and enterprise risk frameworks across Europe by partnering with others within the Bank, LawDivisionand outside counsel asappropriate

• Providing pragmatic legal solutions aligned with businessobjectivesand enterprise risk posture.

The Senior Corporate Counsel will build deep productexpertise, influence product strategy, and play a key role in ensuring compliant, well structured, and business ready product delivery.

1. Contract Drafting & Negotiation

• Draft, review, and negotiate complex technology, commercial, and reseller agreements.

• Ensure contract terms align with businessobjectives, industry standards, U.S. Bank policies, and applicable legal and regulatory requirements.

• Lead negotiations using legalexpertiseand playbooks.

• Document contract decisions, exceptions, escalations, and next steps.

• Driveefficienciesin the negotiation process.

• Calibrate legal guidance based on deal criticality, revenue impact, and strategic importance.

2. Risk Assessment & Mitigation

• Identifyand evaluate legal, commercial, and operational risks in product design, development, deployment, and contracting and contribute to risk-mitigation planning.

• Ensure alignment with applicable contracts, U.S. Bank’s enterprise risk frameworks, third party risk management and regulatory expectations.

• Escalate elevated risks appropriately and support leadership decision making.

3. Cross Functional Collaboration

• Partner with product, compliance, risk partners, operationsteamsand others to embed legal considerations into product development.

• Collaborate with compliance, risk, and other legal teams to evaluate regulatory, contractual, and operational readiness of new or modified products.

• Support go to market preparation, compliance reviews, and launch readiness activities.

• Partner with and manage outside counsel as needed.

4. Monitoring & Thought Leadership

• Monitor emerging laws, regulations, and industry standardsimpactingtechnology products, data usage, licensing, intellectual property, and payment solutions.

• Track advancements in emerging technologies and associated legal frameworks.

• Advise product and business leaders onlegalimplications ofnew trends, innovations, and evolving regulatory expectations.

5. Additional Responsibilities

• Assistsenior legal leadership with special projects and other legal matters as requested.

• Develop and refine templates, playbooks, contracting standards, and legal guidance to improve consistency and efficiency.

Knowledge and Experience

• Legal qualification in the UK with a minimum of 7 years PQE; and

• Practical experience within Europe; and

• Experience as corporate counsel with a focus on:

• technology product development and launch

• complex technology and commercial agreements

• reseller or distribution agreements

• intellectual property, privacy, data usage, and information security

• third party/vendor contracting.

Preferred Experience

• Familiarity with payment services, global merchantacquiring, alternative payment types, mobile wallets, fraud and security products, financial services regulation, and AI (including agentic AI).

• Experience supporting product teams in a regulated financial services or fintech environment.

Skills/Disposition

• Strong ability toidentifylegal issues and provide practical,business orientedsolutions.

• Significant experiencedrafting and negotiating strategic and complex technology agreements, including reseller arrangements.

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, including the ability to distill complex concepts fornon lawyers

• Strong client management, diplomacy, and cross functional collaboration skills.

• Ability to lead projects, drive change, and influence decision making.

• Strong background in technology, intellectual property, information security, and privacy.