Services Business & Market Insights, Senior Counsel (PAIR)
Summary of Relevant Experience
Summary of Experience – Services Business & Market Insights, Senior Counsel (PAIR) @ Mastercard
- JD/MBA-credentialed in-house counsel with approximately four years of progressive experience advising on complex regulatory frameworks, compliance programs, and data-sensitive transactions across healthcare, insurance, and financial services sectors.
- HIPAA and healthcare data specialist who designed and administered compliance programs governing protected health information, with direct experience applying de-identification standards and advising business stakeholders on layered regulatory requirements.
- Cross-functional legal advisor who supported C-suite executives, managed outside counsel, and translated intricate legal obligations into operational guardrails for large corporate employers and multiemployer funds.
- Contract and litigation counsel who drafted and negotiated complex agreements, led regulatory due diligence in M&A contexts, and communicated legal and reputational risk in practical business terms across regulated industries.
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Why this is a fit
The title and seniority align well with your senior counsel/director target band at a financial services firm, but the role requires 5+ years specializing in privacy, AI, and data protection law—your background is in ERISA, employee benefits, and HIPAA compliance, which is a meaningful functional mismatch from the privacy/data-analytics product counsel focus here.
About the role
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 Services Business & Market Insights, Senior Counsel (PAIR) Overview The Senior Counsel will be a member of the Privacy, AI, and Data Responsibility (PAIR) group, Mastercard’s best-in-class team of privacy and data protection attorneys and professionals. Their role is to support the Services Business & Market Insights (BMI) vertical as a product counsel. The position reports to the Senior Managing Counsel assigned to the Services BMI vertical. Role The Senior Counsel has diverse responsibilities that require a careful balance of precision, speed, and the capability to transform legal requirements into practical operational guardrails: • Support the development of complex, data-driven products across the entire product lifecycle, including coordination among legal and strategic specialists. • Draft and negotiate contracts for the sale of Services BMI products in coordination with legal colleagues. • Advise business stakeholders on understanding and applying layers of regulation and internal rules. • Advise PAIR colleagues as an expert on Mastercard’s anonymization controls, aggregation techniques, and data storage environments. All About You Education: Juris Doctor required. Experience: 5+ years practicing law with a specialization in privacy, AI, and/or data protection law required, preferably including law firm experience. Knowledge and Skills: • Use direct, concise, and context-aware writing, presentation technique, and oral communication. • Work within, and coordinate, cross-functional teams, and communicate with C-suite executives. • Work with minimal supervision. • Draft and negotiate data processing agreements. • Apply de-identification techniques and Privacy Enhancing Technologies. • Ability to explain the significance of legal and reputational risk in business terms. • Use generative AI prompting and agent orchestration best practices to enhance legal research and contract drafting, and make day-to-day work efficient. • Have intellectual curiosity and willingness to proactively suggest solutions. • Know, or be willing to learn, skills unique to the position: card payment processing data flows (including open finance / open banking); basic competition, antitrust, and securities law; advertising technology and data flows, credit reporting / credit bureau regulation; data analytics techniques and terminology; data flow diagramming. 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 int