Job Description

Our Purpose

Mastercard powers economies and empowers people in 200+ countries and territories worldwide. Together with our customers, we’re helping build a sustainable economy where everyone can prosper. We support a wide range of digital payments choices, making transactions secure, simple, smart and accessible. Our technology and innovation, partnerships and networks combine to deliver a unique set of products and services that help people, businesses and governments realize their greatest potential.

Title and Summary

Senior CounselOur Purpose

Mastercard powers economies and empowers people in 200+ countries and territories worldwide. Together with our customers, we’re helping build a sustainable economy where everyone can prosper. We support a wide range of digital payments choices, making transactions secure, simple, smart and accessible. Our technology and innovation, partnerships and networks combine to deliver a unique set of products and services that help people, businesses and governments realize their greatest potential.
At Mastercard Services, we go beyond payments. We deliver cutting-edge solutions that help businesses, financial institutions, and governments unlock growth and manage risk. By combining deep industry expertise, advanced technology, and data-driven insights, we enable smarter decisions and better outcomes worldwide. Security Solutions (“SSO”) is part of Mastercard Services and provides products that help customers prevent fraud, strengthen identity, enhance cybersecurity resilience, detect financial crime, and protect the integrity of digital commerce. SSO includes product families such as Identity, Fraud & Financial Crimes, Cybersecurity, Payment Resiliency, Decisioning, and related security offerings delivered globally.

Title
Senior Counsel, Services, Security Solutions

Mastercard is seeking an experienced attorney to support Security Solutions, with a primary initial focus on the Fraud & Decisioning Solutions business unit in the Services Organization. This role will involve partnering closely with product and business teams to provide legal support and guidance on commercialization of emerging technologies, advancing Mastercard’s technology development and engagements, and supporting the growth of Mastercard’s programs. The candidate will be part of a highly agile team building and commercializing exciting products that are delivered at-scale to global markets. The position may evolve over time to support additional Security Solutions offerings and/or broader, region-based product legal coverage as business needs and priorities develop.

This full-time role is based in Brussels, Belgium and reports to the Senior Managing Counsel, Fraud and Decisioning Solutions.

Role and Responsibilities
As Senior Counsel, the successful candidate will act as a trusted advisor to help enable the execution of commercial objectives and business strategy. The ideal candidate is highly motivated, intellectually curious, analytical, and dedicated to delivering hands-on legal support. This role requires commercial acumen, the ability to analyze products, assess legal risks, and provide pragmatic guidance. The role will also involve partnering with subject matter experts such as regulatory, privacy and compliance counsel.
As part of the legal team, the candidate will play a major role in handling product development and support matters for the business on a day-to-day basis, identifying and analyzing relevant issues and helping the business effectively navigate legal risks and implement applicable controls, policies and processes. This role will:
• Provide legal oversight for various product teams in the Fraud and Decisioning Solutions business unit.
• Manage tactical and strategic legal support related to products and solutions to advance Mastercard’s corporate objectives and strategy.
• Collaborate with product, technology, sales, franchise, marketing, communications and other stakeholders to launch innovative solutions that differentiate Mastercard and meet our customers’ rapidly changing needs.
• Assist clients in navigating “grey areas” and mitigating legal and commercial risks by providing solution-oriented guidance.
• Provide strategic counsel during all stages of global product development from ideation to concept to launch and beyond.
• Ensure alignment and compliance of products with Mastercard’s policies, procedures and processes as well as applicable laws and regulations.
• Provide product legal support on a broad range of commercial and contractual matters, including marketing materials, licenses, pilot agreements, deployment agreements, and other technology agreements.
• Work in close collaboration with internal specialists including Franchise, Compliance, Regulatory, Privacy and Data Protection, and Intellectual Property counsel.
• Manage outside counsel where appropriate, ensuring compliance with internal policies and budget expectations, and delivering targeted training and guidance to product, sales, and delivery teams.

This job description is not intended to be exhaustive, and the responsibilities of the role may evolve over time to support the needs of the Security Solutions business and the broader Services organization.

Qualifications
• Minimum six years of solid technology, commercial transactions, complex negotiations, and/or payments experience required.
• Qualified lawyer with a solid academic and training background, licensed to practice in the relevant jurisdiction in which the job is located.
• Able to analyze and identify core legal issues, skilled at explaining technical problems succinctly and clearly.
• Working knowledge of data privacy, regulatory, and intellectual property issues and how they relate to emerging technologies.
• A fast learner who can gain rapid familiarity with complex products, services and legal frameworks and maintain knowledge of those changing products, services and legal frameworks.
• Possess a positive “can-do” attitude, willing to take initiative and ready to go the extra mile.
• Solutions-oriented with excellent time management, planning and organizational skills.
• Able to work flexibly under pressure and with tight deadlines.
• Strong drafting, writing, oral communication and negotiating skills, able to effectively communicate vision and more detailed approaches to a wide variety of stakeholders.
• Exceptional interpersonal skills with proven experience in relationship building and partnering with the ability to work both independently and collaboratively.
• Global mindset and in-house experience, particularly in a multi-national company, is preferred.
• Strong business acumen with the ability to frame legal nuances and implications in practical terms.
• Must be flexible, adept at navigating ambiguity, and able to multi-task within tight timelines.

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.