Microsoft

Senior Corporate Counsel, Worldwide Payments

Microsoft • $147K — $258K *
Redmond, WA 98052In-Person
Legal & Accounting
5 - 7 years of experience
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Qualifications

  • Juris Doctor Degree or equivalent and 6+ years of experience in law focused on payments or fintech.
  • Active license to practice law in a relevant jurisdiction.
  • Demonstrated experience in payments law, financial services, or fintech law.
  • Ability to work independently and as part of a team.
  • Creative problem-solving skills and calmness under pressure.

Responsibilities

  • Provide legal advice on eCommerce, payments, regulatory compliance, and consumer finance.
  • Negotiate agreements to facilitate a global payments strategy.
  • Collaborate with business leaders to develop innovative legal strategies.
  • Synthesize regulations to offer actionable advice for business decisions.
  • Identify risks and recommend mitigation strategies within the legal framework.

Benefits

  • Opportunities for professional growth and advancement.
  • Collaborative work environment focusing on innovation and teamwork.
  • Access to a diverse team of experts across multiple fields.
  • Engagement with cutting-edge legal and regulatory issues.
  • Supportive company culture aligning with values and teamwork.
Full Job Description
Overview

The Microsoft Corporate, External and Legal Affairs (CELA) department has an immediate opening for a dynamic, motivated and experienced Senior Corporate Counsel to join our Worldwide Payments team within the Corporate Legal Group CELA organization. This person will work closely with the Treasury team and other teams across Microsoft on payments operations issues, and fintech initiatives across multiple jurisdictions. This person will work on cutting edge financial and payments regulatory issues that are essential to Microsoft's business strategy.

Responsibilities
  • Provide timely, concise and business-focused legal advice and product development guidance in areas including eCommerce, payments, regulatory compliance, consumer finance, data privacy, consumer protection, and new rules and enforcement actions across multiple jurisdictions
  • Structure and negotiate agreements to enable a global payments strategy, advise executives and stakeholders on liabilities associated with different deals, work with business and functional stakeholders to understand, structure, draft, negotiate and close commercial agreements with external partners
  • Partner with senior business, Treasury, engineering, and legal leaders to develop legal strategies that enable innovation, support business objectives, and advance Microsoft's global payments strategy.
  • Synthesize global payments and compliance regulations to provide actionable advice for cross-functional stakeholders, and support strategic business decisions involving novel legal and regulatory issues.
  • Demonstrate a solutions-oriented approach by proactively identifying risks and recommending mitigation strategies; document guidance for consumption by members of legal, business, and engineering teams
  • Leverage skills in day-to-day interactions with business clients, lawyers and engineering teams, including concise explanations of complex legal issues, presenting clear recommendations, and communicating actionable guidance to executive decision makers.


Qualifications

Required/minimum qualifications
  • Juris Doctor Degree or international equivalent degree AND 6+ years experience as a practicing attorney either in-house (or in an equivalent setting) or at a law firm, with at least 5 of those years focused on payments law, financial services, or fintech law
    • OR equivalent experience.
  • Active license to practice law in a jurisdiction and capable of meeting admission requirements in relevant jurisdiction.

Additional or preferred qualifications
  • Creative thinker with problem-solving skills and the ability to stay calm under challenging circumstances
  • Ability to work both in teams and independently
  • Ability to handle multiple assignments simultaneously, with effective resolution of conflicting priorities
  • Ability to work effectively with and/or manage outside counsel
  • Demonstrated ability to build trusted relationships with executives and influence decision making on complex legal and business issues
  • Openness to adapting their practice in response to the changing landscape of the industry
  • Facilitate a team-based approach to subject matter management and knowledge sharing, and comfort with a flexible, agile environment that emphasizes collaboration and team performance over management hierarchy
  • Desire and ability to work as part of a team and embodies our culture and values


Legal Counsel IC5 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $147,000 - $258,000 per year. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $185,900 - $278,900 per year.

Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here:
https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay

This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.

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Microsoft is an American multinational corporation that develops, manufactures, licenses, supports, and sells a range of software products and services. Microsoft’s devices and consumer (D&C) licensing segment licenses the Windows operating system and related software, Microsoft Office for consumers, and the Windows Phone operating system. The company’s computing and gaming hardware segment provides Xbox gaming and entertainment consoles and accessories, second-party and third-party video games, and Xbox Live subscriptions; surface devices and accessories; and Microsoft PC accessories. Its phone hardware segment offers Lumia smartphones and other non-Lumia phones. Its D&C segment provides Windows Store, Xbox Live transactions, and Windows phone store; search advertising; display advertising; Office 365 Home and Office 365 Personal; first-party video games; and other consumer products and services as well as operating retail stores. Microsoft’s commercial licensing segments license server products, including Windows Server, Microsoft SQL Server, Visual Studio, System Center, and related Client Access Licenses (CALs); Windows Embedded; Windows operating system; Microsoft Office for business, including Office, Exchange, SharePoint, Lync, and related CALs; Microsoft Dynamics business solutions; and Skype. Its commercial segment offers enterprise services, including premier support services and Microsoft consulting services; commercial cloud comprising Office 365 Commercial, other Microsoft Office online offerings, Dynamics CRM Online, and Microsoft Azure; and other commercial products and online services. The company markets and distributes its products through original equipment manufacturers, distributors, and resellers, as well as online.

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Size
181,000 employees
Market Cap
$1,762.4 billion
Industry
Enterprise Technology
Net Income
$51.3 billion
Founded
1975
5 Year Trend
+15.5%
Revenue
$153.2 billion
NASDAQ
MSFT
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