Senior Privacy & Tech Counsel, Global ECR

Mastercard; Purchase (NY); On-site; USD 204,000 - 325,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401k with match

Paid time off

Job summary

Mastercard is seeking a Senior Counsel to support the Privacy, Regulatory & Technology team focused on the ECR product family. The role involves advising on privacy by design, data governance, and regulatory reviews across global markets.

The candidate will draft and negotiate contracts, establish internal controls, and coordinate with product, business, and regulatory stakeholders to translate complex requirements into practical terms.

Qualifications

• Juris Doctor from an accredited law school and admission to practice law in at least one U.S. jurisdiction.
• Advanced expertise in privacy and data protection law, with meaningful experience advising on credit reporting, lending, financial services, or other regulated data uses.
• Experience advising on AI, automated decision-making, model governance, data analytics, or related technology and data governance issues.
• Ability to analyze complex product and data architectures, identify applicable legal requirements across jurisdictions, and translate those requirements into practical controls and contractual terms.
• Strong written and oral communication skills, sound judgment, and the ability to work effectively with legal, business, product, regulatory, and technical stakeholders in a global organization.
• Demonstrated ability to manage multiple complex matters, operate independently in areas of ambiguity, and develop consistent legal positions across products, customers, and markets.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the primary legal lead for matters relating to Mastercard’s ECR products.
• Advise business, product, and technical teams throughout the product lifecycle, including privacy by design and regulatory reviews of new products, features, data uses, models, and go-to-market approaches.
• Establish and maintain legal compliance frameworks and internal controls addressing privacy, credit reporting, consent management, data subject rights, AI and automated decision-making, and model risk management.
• Coordinate legal analysis across jurisdictions and develop consistent positions for the application of local credit risk, privacy, AI, data use, and related regulatory requirements.
• Support the review of new markets and strategic partnerships, including the use of outside counsel where local legal analysis is required.
• Draft, review, and negotiate contract terms with strategic partners and key customers.
• Communicate legal requirements, risk assessments, open issues, and proposed controls clearly to business leaders, product teams, technical stakeholders, and other members of the Law Department.

Skills

Privacy law

Data protection

Regulatory compliance

Legal negotiation

Education

Juris Doctor

Job description

Mastercard is seeking a Senior Counsel to support the Privacy, Regulatory & Technology team focused on the ECR product family. The role involves advising on privacy by design, data governance, and regulatory reviews across global markets.

The candidate will draft and negotiate contracts, establish internal controls, and coordinate with product, business, and regulatory stakeholders to translate complex requirements into practical terms.