As a member of the Consumer Banking Legal team, you will spend your time serving as a trusted advisor to the business, advising banking professionals directly.  The team supports a range Consumer Banking’s deposit products, other financial products and services offered to Chase bank customers across the country.  You will spend your days in collaborative conversions solving legal problems for these business professionals, researching banking regulatory requirements, and issue spotting with other members of the legal team at JPMorganChase.  You will join a small team within this large organization and hit the ground running.  

As a Vice President and Assistant General Counsel within the Consumer Banking Legal Team, you will support the Consumer Banking line of business in areas that require strategic legal leadership that keeps pace with business developments.  When you join JPMorgan Chase’s Legal Department, you become part of a dynamic group of lawyers that provides a broad array of legal support in areas that have direct impact on consumers. You will focus on your two clients: the firm and our end-consumer. You will utilize your strong analytical and issue-spotting skills in a broad range of legal and regulatory areas including, but not limited to: core U.S. banking regulations and regulatory framework, deposit systems, Regulations DD and E, UDAAP, and payment regulations and rules.  

Job Responsibilities

• Provide strategic and practical legal advice to business areas that support consumer checking, savings, CDs, and payment products. 
• Internalize the firm’s risk appetite in order to provide sound strategic advice and guidance on new business processes and initiatives to help meet business objectives while maintaining the firm’s agenda for treating customers and employees fairly, as well as expectations for a fortress controls environment.
• Advise and collaborate with colleagues across the Legal, Risk, Compliance and Controls Departments.
• Support the Consumer Banking products and platforms, including deposit systems, products, disclosures, and pricing. 
• Monitor and advise business partners and legal colleagues on legislative and regulatory changes.
• Support regulatory reviews, exams, internal audits, and investigations. 
• Be a practical adviser and own issues start-to-finish in order to support this dynamic business area. 

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Juris Doctor (JD) required; licensed to practice law and member in good standing in a U.S. jurisdiction.
• 6+ years of legal experience in a major law firm, large in-house setting, or equivalent.
• Subject matter expertise in core U.S. banking regulations and regulatory framework, Regulations DD and E, UDAAP, and payment regulations and rules. 
• A practical team player who prioritizes collegiality and acts collaboratively with legal and non-legal colleagues and stakeholders across lines of business.
• Strong decision-making skills, execute with urgency and precision, and ability to prioritize and effectively manage multiple matters and projects simultaneously.
• Ability to foster and maintain strong client relationships and act as a trusted advisor.
• Ability to skillfully use AI tools, Word, PowerPoint and web-based approval tools to facilitate legal practice and communications of legal ideas to business clients. 

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Experience interacting with federal regulators preferred. 

All candidates for roles in the Legal department must be licensed to practice law in the country of employment and successfully complete a conflict of interest clearance review prior to commencement of employment.