Strategic Transactions Attorney - Vice President

JPMorgan Chase & Co.•Plano, TX

8h•Onsite

About The Position

Join Strategic Transactions Legal to help bring household-name partnerships to life across Consumer & Community Banking, Asset & Wealth Management, and the Private Bank. You’ll lead drafting and negotiation of complex strategic agreements—from payment network and co-brand card partnerships to card benefits, marketing arrangements, and digital integrations. Working side-by-side with senior business leaders and cross-functional teams, you’ll deliver clear, commercially pragmatic advice at pace and from the earliest stages of deal strategy. This role offers meaningful visibility, broad collaboration across the Legal department, and the opportunity to shape new customer benefits and go-to-market relationships. As a Strategic Transactions Attorney in the Strategic Transactions Legal team, you will provide legal counsel on a variety of strategic deals across the bank's Consumer and Community Banking, Asset Wealth Management and Private Bank lines of business. You will be drafting and negotiating agreements, such as network agreements, co-brand card partnerships, card benefits and marketing arrangements, digital integrations, and other types of broad-based strategic partnership agreements with household names. The role will provide the opportunity for significant cross-functional and cross-legal department collaboration and require the delivery of timely, clear, and pragmatic legal advice to the business. This position provides an excellent opportunity for you to build an exciting career in a leading global financial services firm and to play a key part in building and bringing to market new benefits and partnerships.

Requirements

Licensed attorney with at least 5 years of legal experience.
Excellent verbal and written communication skills
On-point transactional experience with strong technical drafting skills.
Ability to work autonomously while being a collegial team player who brings a positive, “can-do” attitude to the workplace and works collaboratively with other members of the Legal team and with internal clients
Entrepreneurial, business-minded, and a creative problem solver.
The ability to see past the question, understand the wider strategy, and think tactically to get to the best result for all parties.
The ability to pivot between priorities and have the perseverance and patience to see a matter through to completion.
Ability to work in an open plan team environment.
Licensed to practice law in the country of employment and successfully complete a conflicts of interest clearance review prior to commencement of employment.

Responsibilities

Draft and negotiate agreements for key CCB strategic partnerships and engagements including key provider and partner agreements, co-brand credit card agreements and issuer agreements with payment networks.
Provide strategic, commercially pragmatic, and transparent advice to business partners.
Provide ongoing support and assistance to business partners, other legal teams and functional partners as to contract interpretation.
Provide early stage "seat at the table" strategy and pre-term sheet legal support, including issue-spotting, researching, and appropriately escalating risks and concerns that may exist with any potential deal type.
Participate in cross line of business initiatives.
Manage external counsel as required.

Benefits

competitive total rewards package including base salary determined based on the role, experience, skill set and location.
commission-based pay and/or discretionary incentive compensation, paid in the form of cash and/or forfeitable equity, awarded in recognition of individual achievements and contributions.
comprehensive health care coverage
on-site health and wellness centers
a retirement savings plan
backup childcare
tuition reimbursement
mental health support
financial coaching

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