Senior Counsel

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

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.
At Mastercard Services, we go beyond payments. We deliver cutting-edge solutions that help businesses, financial institutions, and governments unlock growth and manage risk. By combining deep industry expertise, advanced technology, and data-driven insights, we enable smarter decisions and better outcomes worldwide. Security Solutions (“SSO”) is part of Mastercard Services and provides products that help customers prevent fraud, strengthen identity, enhance cybersecurity resilience, detect financial crime, and protect the integrity of digital commerce. SSO includes product families such as Identity, Fraud & Financial Crimes, Cybersecurity, Payment Resiliency, Decisioning, and related security offerings delivered globally.

Title
Senior Counsel, Services Legal, Security Solutions

Overview
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.
Role and Responsibilities
The role 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.
Responsibilities include advising product and engineering teams throughout the product lifecycle, including product design, development, deployment, and go‑to‑market execution. The role supports both new and existing products, including incremental enhancements, pilots, and scaled offerings.
The position involves structuring, drafting, and negotiating 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. The role partners closely with sales and delivery teams to support customer transactions and advance deals efficiently while appropriately managing risk.
The role also includes advising on legal and regulatory considerations applicable to cybersecurity and data‑driven products, including privacy, cybersecurity, intellectual property, and related compliance matters. The counsel will work 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.
The position supports both commercial and government‑focused customer opportunities as needed, including advising on contracting and regulatory considerations relevant to public sector or regulated customers.
In addition, the role participates in relevant Security Solutions governance forums and processes, including product reviews, commercialization approvals, pricing initiatives, and related operational workflows. The role contributes to efforts to improve consistency, reduce friction, and make products easier to do business with.
The role includes responsibility for managing outside counsel where appropriate, ensuring compliance with internal policies and budget expectations, and delivering targeted training and guidance to product, sales, and delivery teams.

Qualifications
The successful candidate will hold a Juris Doctor degree and be admitted to practice law in at least one U.S. jurisdiction.
The role requires 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, with prior exposure to cybersecurity, data‑driven products, SaaS, or enterprise technology offerings strongly preferred. Familiarity with data privacy, cybersecurity, and intellectual property issues is an advantage.
The successful candidate will demonstrate sound business judgment, the ability to operate effectively in a fast‑paced environment with incomplete information, and a practical approach to balancing legal risk with business objectives.
Strong interpersonal and communication skills are essential. The role requires comfort advising senior stakeholders, working across a matrixed organization, and building trusted relationships with business partners.
The candidate should operate comfortably across multiple priorities, work independently while collaborating closely with colleagues, and bring a solutions‑oriented mindset to complex and evolving issues.

Additional Information
This job description is not intended to be exhaustive, and the responsibilities of the role may evolve over time to support the needs of the Security Solutions business and the broader Services organization.

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 View email address on jobs.institutedata.com 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: $177,000 - $283,000 USD

Atlanta, Georgia: $154,000 - $246,000 USD

Miami, Florida: $154,000 - $246,000 USD

O'Fallon, Missouri: $154,000 - $246,000 USD