Visa is seeking an experienced lawyer to provide sophisticated and creative counseling to their Client Services and Visa Global Licensing teams, focusing on risk and compliance for core business segments. The role aims to manage client relationships, offer day-to-day legal support, and ensure compliance with global regulations while supporting new product development and launches.
Requirements
- At least 8 years of work experience providing legal advice to companies in the financial industry
- Both prior in-house and law firm experience in the technology sector preferred but not required
- Demonstrated ability to understand underlying technical aspects and use cases of software based products and solutions
- Significant experience in financial technology, payments and financial services, data protection, IP, basic privacy, contract and/or commercial law preferred
- Ability to drive execution in a team environment, integrating legal advice and business knowledge while providing balanced advice regarding risks and benefits
- Advanced business acumen, with the ability to understand the company’s business interests and anticipate the nature and magnitude of issues that could arise
Responsibilities
- Provide sophisticated and creative counseling to the Client Services (Call Center and Customer Assistance Services) and Visa Global Licensing teams with a special focus on risk and compliance.
- Manage client relationships and provide day to day legal support and counseling to the relevant internal clients, covering all aspects of the services, including external facing communications, periodic global compliance checks, policy development and management, escalation management, negotiation and interpretation of agreements, address licensing questions and matters, and, if relevant, provide advice with respect to new features and products from development to launch to scale.
- Act as lead counsel for the relevant teams, with the ability to identify when subject matter expert stakeholders need to get involved and when to obtain and coordinate the relevant stakeholder input.
- Provide legal review and approval of presentations and other day-to-day work product and content created by the relevant product teams.
- Assist in and drive the creation and updates of guidelines, templates and process improvements to create greater efficiencies.
- Work closely with Visa’s regional and local legal and business teams globally, and provide general guidance to these teams in resolving regional and local issues.
- Demonstrated ability to understand underlying technical aspects and use cases of software based products and solutions
Other
- Admitted to bar in good standing or eligible for registered in house counsel in the state where this role is located
- Confident, proactive, independent and can learn on the job
- Exceptional analytical ability and advocacy skills
- Excellent written, oral communication and negotiation skills
- Strong people skills with proven ability to build strong working relationships with internal clients and work with cross-functional teams on complex deals
- Practical and proactive problem-solver with the ability to successfully prioritize, calm under fire with a positive and collegial attitude and a sense of humor
- Strong ethical values
- This is a hybrid position. Expectation of days in office will be confirmed by your Hiring Manager.
- This position requires travel 5-10% of the time.
