Counsel - Consumer Products

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

Counsel - Consumer Products

Overview

Mastercard is seeking an attorney to be responsible for providing comprehensive, end-to-end, strategic legal counsel and support to the Consumer Products and Processing, supporting holistically the regional and global grow of Consumer Products and Processing, especially (but not only) in areas of issuer-processing and pre-paid management services.

Role

The ideal candidate is a curious, well-organized, highly motivated, technology- and payments-minded attorney with proper experience. This role is based in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, and reports to the Senior Counsel, Global Processing. The selected candidate will:

• Collaborate with the business to bring to market and scale Mastercards consumer products.
• Structure, draft, and negotiate commercial agreements with Mastercard customers and partners (e.g. acquirers, issuers and other partners), merchants, payment service providers and other stakeholders within the payments ecosystem, especially in rea of issuer-processing and pre-paid management.
• Provide legal advice to the business on a wide range of product development, commercial and contractual matters.
• Work cross-functionally with various product and legal teams, including data privacy, intellectual property, anti-trust, regulatory affairs, public policy, franchise and services business lines and functions to provide holistic support to Mastercard’s global and regional products strategy.
• Work with internal and external regulatory counsel and regional colleagues to ensure compliance with laws, government regulations relating to Mastercards consumer products.
• Advise business teams on new legal or regulatory trends and risks that may impact Mastercard’s consumer products strategy and the overall business.
• Implement improvements and efficiencies in the product development process.
• Develop strong relationships with product, business and sales teams, and senior management in the region.
• Assist with the creation of project plans, trackers, training materials and guides, and provide training for business clients and law department colleagues.
• Support other projects within the broader Core Payments legal team. 
  
  
  

About You

• Qualified lawyer with a solid academical background.
• Experience working on complex legal projects at a reputable law firm and as an in-house counsel.
• Experience in payment ecosystem, with focus technology is preferred.
• Global mindset and in-house experience, particularly in a multi-national company is preferred.
• Strong communication skills to interact confidently and effectively with demanding stakeholders.
• Fast learner who can gain familiarity with complex and evolving products and solutions and deal with legal and regulatory challenges
• Able to work flexibly, under pressure, and with tight deadlines.
• Must be willing to take on a variety of responsibilities and roles that support the team, department and the company.
• Must be able to work independently and collaboratively, and multi-task effectively in a fast-paced team environment.
  
  
  

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.

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