Senior Specialist, Legal Services

Our Purpose

We work to connect and power an inclusive, digital economy that benefits everyone, everywhere by making transactions safe, simple, smart and accessible. Using secure data and networks, partnerships and passion, our innovations and solutions help individuals, financial institutions, governments and businesses realize their greatest potential. Our decency quotient, or DQ, drives our culture and everything we do inside and outside of our company. We cultivate a for all employees that respects their individual strengths, views, and experiences. We believe that our differences enable us to be a better team – one that makes better decisions, drives innovation and delivers better business results.

Title and Summary

Senior Specialist, Legal ServicesOverview

Mastercard’s global Open Banking team and services bring to life our vision of empowering consumers to benefit from their own financial data. We are passionate about creating solutions that unlock innovation, streamline everyday consumer experiences and build financial inclusion. Many leading organizations are already using the Mastercard Open Banking platform to deliver some of the industry’s most compelling services spanning lending, payments, account opening and small business. Open Banking is a strategic and fast-growing area of Mastercard's business.

The Open Banking legal team is looking for a senior legal specialist to provide contract administrator and project management support, primarily to the North American open banking team. You will work collaboratively and in partnership with Mastercard’s legal, product, sales and finance teams, as well as with our customers and partners, while effectively managing our contract processes and bespoke projects.

Role

In this role, you will:

• Review, draft, and negotiate a variety of commercial contracts and legal documents, usually leveraging established templates

• Provide first-line advice and triage on inbound contract-related requests

• Develop effective relationships with product development, business, sales and senior management within Mastercard’s Open Banking business as well with as across legal functions

• Have a central role in developing and improving contract processes, workflows and tools to make our team more efficient, such as templates, playbooks and other self-service or training guides

• Provide project management support for our legal team work which is aligned to the development of Mastercard’s Open Banking solutions, managing the day-to-day operational aspects of these projects

• Assist our team members as required in connection with corporate entity governance and provision of corporate secretarial support (e.g., assisting in preparation of board materials and board meeting agenda, maintaining corporate records, and monitoring corporate governance) for Mastercard’s open banking entities

• Manage contract templates to ensure standard terms and conditions are appropriately updated

• Liaise with legal technology team to ensure our team is effectively using enterprise-wide tools and to recommend new tools and technologies as needs arise

Perform other duties as assigned.

Location

This full-time role is based in St. Louis, Missouri or Salt Lake City, Utah. As we are a global team, the role may require some limited travel and ability to support other time zones.

All About You

• Bachelor’s degree. Paralegals and JDs welcome

• Experience reviewing, drafting, and negotiating a range of commercial contracts at an inhouse legal department

• Strong written and verbal communication skills

• Experience using contract lifecycle management and electronic signature tools

• Solutions orientated with excellent time management, planning and organizational skills

• Experience working cross-functionally with business, legal, and finance team members

• Works well in both team and individual settings, skilled in relationship building and partnering and able to work with different teams and across different countries/cultures

• Corporate secretary support experience would be useful but is not essentialIn the US, Mastercard is an inclusive Equal Employment Opportunity employer that considers applicants without regard to gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, ethnicity, disabled or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. If you require accommodations or assistance to complete the online application process, please contact [email protected] and identify the type of accommodation or assistance you are requesting. Do not include any medical or health information in this email. The Reasonable Accommodations team will respond to your email promptly.Corporate Security Responsibility

All activities involving access to Mastercard assets, information, and networks comes with an inherent risk to the organization and, therefore, it is expected that every person working for, or on behalf of, Mastercard is responsible for information security and must:

• Abide by Mastercard’s security policies and practices;
• Ensure the confidentiality and integrity of the information being accessed;
• Report any suspected information security violation or breach, and
• Complete all periodic mandatory security trainings in accordance with Mastercard’s guidelines.

Pay Ranges

O'Fallon, Missouri: $78,000 - $121,000 USDSalt Lake City, Utah: $78,000 - $121,000 USD