Corporate Counsel – Commercial Transactions | Enterprise Procurement & Finance Operations |

T-Mobile•Bellevue, WA

12d•$123,200 - $222,200

About The Position

T-Mobile is hiring a pragmatic, business-focused transactional generalist attorney to support enterprise procurement transactions, particularly Finance operations such as Finance, Credit Risk, Fraud, Collections Decisioning Infrastructure, and Payments. The role negotiates a broad range of enterprise procurement agreements, including professional services, technology licensing, SaaS, cloud services, and data products. It also supports arrangements with banks, payment providers, credit bureaus, data and analytics providers, credit decisioning and fraud vendors, collections providers, and other financial-services firms. The attorney independently manages transactions from intake through approval and execution, advises assigned business partners, and translates legal and operational risks into clear business recommendations. The position evaluates payment and data flows, regulatory responsibilities, financial exposure, auditability, and operational resilience, and coordinates specialist input where needed. It also supervises outside counsel, helps bring appropriate work in-house, improves templates and playbooks, manages a high-volume portfolio, uses contract lifecycle management tools and approved AI tools, and contributes to training. The role requires a U.S. law degree and admission to at least one state bar in good standing, with at least five years of relevant experience. The successful candidate will bring broad commercial contracting experience, demonstrated competence in technology and data agreements, independent negotiation skills, sound business judgment, and the ability to work across functions in a deadline-driven environment. Travel is not required. The position is not DOT-regulated or safety-sensitive.

Requirements

U.S. law degree and admission to at least one state bar in good standing.
At least 5 years of relevant experience, including substantial in-house and/or law-firm experience drafting and negotiating complex commercial agreements in relevant areas.
Demonstrated competence negotiating technology licensing and SaaS agreements, including data products and data licensing and related IP, security, privacy, and data-use issues.
Experience negotiating a broad mix of enterprise procurement and professional-services agreements as a transactional generalist.
Experience independently leading negotiations with sophisticated counterparties.
Command of core commercial principles, including risk allocation, indemnification, limitation of liability, warranties, service levels, audit rights, intellectual property, data rights, and termination.
Strong judgment in distinguishing material risks from theoretical or lower-impact issues.
Excellent oral and written communication skills, including explaining complex legal concepts clearly to attorneys, business partners, and senior leaders.
Ability to manage multiple transactions in a deadline-driven, cross-functional, matrixed environment.
At least 18 years of age.
Legally authorized to work in the United States.

Nice To Haves

Experience negotiating payment, banking, credit bureau and data, credit risk and decisioning platform, fraud and identity, collections, debt sale, or payment infrastructure agreements.
Working knowledge of regulatory frameworks such as FCRA, ECOA, CCPA, GLBA, PCI, NACHA, and collections and consumer-contact rules.
Experience supervising outside counsel or bringing work in-house.
Experience advising Procurement, Finance, Treasury, Credit Risk, Fraud, Collections, or Revenue Assurance.
Experience in a regulated, consumer-facing, financial-services, or telecommunications environment.
Working knowledge of privacy, cybersecurity, data governance, and third-party risk in commercial transactions.
Experience with templates, playbooks, contract lifecycle management systems, process improvement, and domestic and international procurement transactions.

Responsibilities

Lead drafting, review, and negotiation of complex commercial agreements, managing transactions from intake through negotiation, approval, and execution.
Handle enterprise procurement agreements, including master services agreements, statements of work, amendments, order forms, and professional-services agreements.
Negotiate technology licensing, SaaS, hosted and cloud services, and data-product and data-licensing agreements.
Support Finance operations transactions involving financial institutions, payment programs and providers, credit bureaus, data and analytics providers, credit decisioning, fraud prevention, identity verification, collections, and financial professional-services firms.
Negotiate commercial and legal provisions covering risk allocation, indemnification, liability, warranties, service levels, pricing, audit rights, data use and ownership, intellectual property, continuity, compliance, termination, and transition assistance.
Evaluate payment and data flows, data rights, regulatory responsibilities, financial exposure, auditability, and operational resilience; identify when specialist review is needed.
Partner with Procurement and business owners from intake through signature and serve as the legal advisor of record to assigned business partners.
Explain legal issues as clear business decision points, align stakeholders, and escalate material or novel issues appropriately.
Manage and supervise outside counsel on assigned matters, and identify work that can be brought in-house by developing templates, standards, escalation guidelines, and playbooks.
Prioritize a varied, high-volume portfolio and use contract lifecycle management tools and data to improve cycle time and identify process friction.
Use approved AI tools for drafting, research, and administrative work, and review and validate AI-assisted work.
Share knowledge and contribute to training across the legal team and supported business functions.

Benefits

Competitive base salary and compensation package.
Annual stock grant and employee stock purchase plan.
401(k) and access to free, year-round money coaches.
Annual bonus or periodic sales incentive or bonus, depending on role and eligibility.
Medical, dental, and vision insurance.
Flexible spending account.
Paid time off and up to 12 paid holidays.
Paid parental and family leave, family-building benefits, backup care, enhanced family support, and childcare subsidy.
Tuition assistance and college coaching.
Short- and long-term disability coverage, voluntary AD&D coverage, voluntary accident coverage, voluntary life insurance, voluntary disability insurance, and voluntary long-term care insurance.
Mobile service and home internet discounts, pet insurance, and commuter and transit programs for eligible employees.