Senior Counsel

Mastercard
Purchase, NY
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 Counsel

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 [email protected] 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 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.

In line with Mastercard’s total compensation philosophy and assuming that the job will be performed in the US, the successful candidate will be offered a competitive base salary and may be eligible for an annual bonus or commissions depending on the role. The base salary offered may vary depending on multiple factors, including but not limited to location, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Mastercard benefits for full time (and certain part time) employees generally include: insurance (including medical, prescription drug, dental, vision, disability, life insurance); flexible spending account and health savings account; paid leaves (including 16 weeks of new parent leave and up to 20 days of bereavement leave); 80 hours of Paid Sick and Safe Time, 25 days of vacation time and 5 personal days, pro-rated based on date of hire; 10 annual paid U.S. observed holidays; 401k with a best-in-class company match; deferred compensation for eligible roles; fitness reimbursement or on-site fitness facilities; eligibility for tuition reimbursement; and many more. Mastercard benefits for interns generally include: 56 hours of Paid Sick and Safe Time; jury duty leave; and on-site fitness facilities in some locations.

Pay Ranges

Purchase, New York: $204,000 - $325,000 USD

Posted 2026-06-25

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