Senior Managing Counsel, Fintech & Payments Partnerships

Booking Holdings (NASDAQ: BKNG)

New York (NY)

Hybrid

USD 225,000 - 275,000

Full time

14 days+

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Job summary

Booking Holdings is seeking an exceptional legal leader to join our international Fintech Legal Team as Senior Managing Counsel, leading legal support for Fintech Commercial Partnerships across Booking holdings brands in the US. You will partner with Fintech teams to shape legal strategy, influence executive decisions, and enable scalable revenue growth while mitigating risk.

You will negotiate high-value partnerships, manage external counsel, and establish global contracting frameworks, driving

Qualifications

Qualified lawyer with 8+ years’ PQE (or equivalent experience) with a mix of in-house and big firm experience preferred.
Law degree from a top law school, and excellent academic credentials.
License to practice in New York.
Exceptional drafting and negotiation skills, with a track record of leading high-stakes, complex commercial negotiations and producing clear, precise, and commercially effective agreements.
Extensive experience advising on fintech, payments, financial services, and complex global commercial transactions.
Good understanding of regulations that cover payments, Fintech, money transmission, EMI/PI frameworks, lending/BNPL, AML/CTF, fraud, sanctions, crypto/virtual assets, and data-driven financial services.
Demonstrated ability to influence senior executives and drive decisions in a matrixed, global organization (whether inhouse or as part of private practice experience).
Experience in a role with global scope and be capable of sourcing, critiquing and managing input from a range of internal and external stakeholders to form a view even outside your direct experience.

Responsibilities

Lead the negotiation, drafting and execution of complex, high value partnerships with financial institutions, payment networks, fintech providers, and strategic technology partners, securing strong commercial outcomes while protecting the business against foreseeable legal and regulatory risk.
Act as a single point of contact for the US Fintech Commercial Partnership teams, independently advising on priority commercial initiatives and escalations, and making commercially grounded recommendations on complex deal structures, risk trade-offs and approval paths.
Design pragmatic legal strategies and risk mitigations for new commercial models and product-linked partnership initiatives (including payments infrastructure, embedded finance, and alternative payment models), and coordinates input from external and internal subject matter experts.
Support in establishing and standardizing global contracting frameworks, and risk allocation models across jurisdictions and brands including delegations of authority, decision-making frameworks and compliance with internal policies and controls.
As a senior member of the Fintech Legal Team, drive strong ways of working, sets high standards for drafting, negotiation and risk calibration, strengthens collaboration and knowledge sharing, and drives cross-brand efficiency and velocity through AI- and automation-led process improvements.
Manage external counsel and scopes support in line with business priorities and budget.