Senior Manager, Senior Counsel - Financial Services Legal Team (Hybrid)

Capital One•Plano, TX

12d•Hybrid

About The Position

As a Senior Counsel on the Financial Services Legal Team, you will apply your strategic and analytical skills to major challenges and significant business initiatives as a member of Capital One’s Financial Services (“FS”) Division. Capital One’s FS Division is a leader and pioneer in the auto finance and technology industries specializing in the delivery of AI, machine learning, and other tech-enabled products and solutions. You will serve in a key role supporting and advising the business in our pursuit to dream, disrupt, and deliver solutions for consumers, dealers, and partners. As a member of the FS Legal Team, you will partner with a passionate and customer-centric business that is fueling the future of one of the nation’s largest indirect auto-finance companies. Within this role, you’ll be a true counselor to the business and have the opportunity to advise analysts, technologists, designers, and marketers across FS who are tasked with strategizing and building innovative solutions to division-wide challenges and designing products and content central to helping cultivate Capital One’s iconic and nationally-recognized brand. This is an opportunity to identify complex risks, solve problems, and help shape dynamic strategies that directly impact our customers and internal business partners. You will build innovative solutions and services, counsel the business on a wide range of issues—from consumer-finance laws and regulations to strategy, data, and risk—all within a highly collaborative environment. We value your insight, encourage you to take on new responsibility, and reward continuous learning and intellectual curiosity, positioning you for an exciting career with a leading player in the financial services industry.

Requirements

Juris Doctor from an accredited law school
Active member in good standing of at least one state bar
At least 4 years of experience at a law firm, at a government agency, as a military judge advocate, or as in-house counsel

Nice To Haves

3+ years of experience in advising financial-services or technology companies
3+ years of experience working as an attorney on data, marketing, product development, or technology
Experience advising companies on matters of regulatory compliance, including with UDAAP, the FCRA, GLBA, ECOA, and TILA
Ability to work effectively both in teams and independently, make effective and integrated decisions, and collaborate effectively at all levels in the company
Ability to deal with ambiguous situations, complex concepts, and details
Excellent written and oral communication skills with the ability to influence others
Strong analytical and problem-solving skills

Responsibilities

Understanding technology, the auto finance business, and the rapidly evolving landscapes for both, fostering innovation through an understanding of the applicable laws, and charting a course for rolling out, marketing, selling, and negotiating agreements for innovative products where no clear roadmap exists.
Translating legal concepts (e.g., data privacy, IP, antitrust, TILA/Reg Z, ECOA/Reg B, FCRA/Reg V, UDAAP), business intent, and the auto industry, knowing the technology itself (APIs, AI, OSS, machine learning) and exhibiting an innate desire to learn along with it.
Working hand-in-hand with the business to solve problems in flight, with an ownership mindset and viewing yourself as part of the business team.
Collaborating closely with colleagues across the Legal Department to fully vet and scale risk, and to push responsible innovation in challenging gray areas.