Senior Counsel

Mastercard • Miami, FL

10d • Onsite

About The Position

Mastercard is seeking a strategic, business‑minded commercial and technology attorney to join the Services Legal team supporting the SSO business. The role will focus primarily on SSO’s cybersecurity and threat intelligence offerings including cyber tools that protect the payments ecosystem, as well as enterprise cybersecurity products for CISOs; the role will support product development, commercialization, and sales activities across this portfolio. This is a client‑facing role that involves close collaboration with product management, engineering, sales, customer delivery, and senior business leadership. The successful candidate will serve as a trusted legal partner to fast‑moving teams bringing complex technology products to market in a global, regulated environment. The position will be based in either Purchase, New York or Miami, Florida. While the role focuses on cybersecurity and threat intelligence, the position may evolve over time to support additional Security Solutions offerings and/or broader, region based product legal coverage as business needs and priorities develop.

Requirements

• Juris Doctor degree and admitted to practice law in at least one U.S. jurisdiction.
• Strong commercial and transactional experience, including significant experience drafting and negotiating complex technology and commercial agreements.
• Prior in‑house experience or training at a highly regarded law firm is strongly preferred.
• Experience supporting technology‑driven businesses is essential.
• Familiarity with data privacy, cybersecurity, and intellectual property issues is an advantage.
• Sound business judgment.
• Ability to operate effectively in a fast‑paced environment with incomplete information.
• Practical approach to balancing legal risk with business objectives.
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills.
• Comfort advising senior stakeholders.
• Ability to work across a matrixed organization.
• Ability to build trusted relationships with business partners.
• Comfort operating across multiple priorities.
• Ability to work independently while collaborating closely with colleagues.
• Solutions‑oriented mindset to complex and evolving issues.

Nice To Haves

• Prior exposure to cybersecurity, data‑driven products, SaaS, or enterprise technology offerings strongly preferred.

Responsibilities

• Provides end‑to‑end legal support for cybersecurity and threat intelligence products and, as required, for additional Security Solutions offerings and/or regional Security Solutions portfolios, with a particular focus on enabling commercialization while managing legal, regulatory, and reputational risk in a practical and solutions‑oriented manner.
• Advises product and engineering teams throughout the product lifecycle, including product design, development, deployment, and go‑to‑market execution.
• Supports both new and existing products, including incremental enhancements, pilots, and scaled offerings.
• Structures, drafts, and negotiates a wide range of commercial and technology agreements, including customer agreements, pilot and proof‑of‑concept agreements, software and platform terms, statements of work, partner and reseller arrangements, and vendor agreements.
• Partners closely with sales and delivery teams to support customer transactions and advance deals efficiently while appropriately managing risk.
• Advises on legal and regulatory considerations applicable to cybersecurity and data‑driven products, including privacy, cybersecurity, intellectual property, and related compliance matters.
• Works closely with subject‑matter experts across Legal, Compliance, Privacy, Regulatory Affairs, and Information Security to identify issues early and develop mitigations that can be implemented at scale.
• Supports both commercial and government‑focused customer opportunities as needed, including advising on contracting and regulatory considerations relevant to public sector or regulated customers.
• Participates in relevant Security Solutions governance forums and processes, including product reviews, commercialization approvals, pricing initiatives, and related operational workflows.
• Contributes to efforts to improve consistency, reduce friction, and make products easier to do business with.
• Manages outside counsel where appropriate, ensuring compliance with internal policies and budget expectations.
• Delivers targeted training and guidance to product, sales, and delivery teams.

Benefits

• 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

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: Ph.D. or professional degree