Senior Director, General Counsel – Litigation & Regulatory

DTCC; Jersey City (NJ); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation

Health insurance

Hybrid work model

Job summary

DTCC is seeking a skilled General Counsel to lead litigation, regulatory matters, and employment investigations for its post-trade market infrastructure. You will advise senior leadership, manage outside counsel, and collaborate with Compliance, Risk, HR, and Operations to mitigate risk in a highly regulated financial services environment.

The role requires a JD, NY/NJ Bar admission, and extensive litigation experience.

Qualifications

• Juris Doctor from an accredited law school.
• Admitted to and in good standing with the New York or New Jersey Bar.
• Minimum of 9 years of legal experience with a primary focus on litigation for clients in highly regulated industries.
• Significant hands-on experience in all phases of litigation, disputes, and internal investigations, including pleadings, discovery, witness preparation, dispositive motions, trial/arbitration, and settlement negotiations.
• Experience with subpoenas and discovery, including written and electronic discovery, witness interviews, negotiating with opposing counsel, depositions, and discovery hearings.
• Experience in, or strong commitment to build expertise in, employment law, with a focus on disputes, investigations, claims, litigation, and regulatory and state agency inquiries and proceedings.

Responsibilities

• Manage litigation and disputes (with or without outside counsel), including strategy, risk evaluation, budgets, and discovery.
• Manage and resolve pre-litigation disputes, demand letters, and regulatory inquiries.
• Assess risk and provide practical, risk-based counsel to executives and stakeholders.
• Partner with business leaders to investigate and resolve complex legal issues.
• Support factual investigations, document preservation, discovery, and settlement analysis.
• Advise on legal and regulatory risk relating to DTCC’s role as a financial market infrastructure.
• Evaluate employee claims and provide strategy recommendations including settlement authority.
• Support employment-related disputes and workplace investigations.
• Handle routine legal matters and ad hoc projects in collaboration with internal teams.

Skills

Litigation experience

Regulatory compliance

Legal advisory

Negotiation

Analytical skills

Education

Juris Doctor (JD)

Tools

Relativity

Job description

DTCC is seeking a skilled General Counsel to lead litigation, regulatory matters, and employment investigations for its post-trade market infrastructure. You will advise senior leadership, manage outside counsel, and collaborate with Compliance, Risk, HR, and Operations to mitigate risk in a highly regulated financial services environment.

The role requires a JD, NY/NJ Bar admission, and extensive litigation experience.