Senior Corporate Counsel – Product

Overview

The Senior Corporate Counsel role is to act as a legal adviser with a focus on fintech/payments products. The core part of the role will be advising on contract negotiations, new product creation and engaging with other teams across U.S. Bank Europe DAC and its parent U.S. Bank National Association.

Responsibilities

1. Contract Drafting & Negotiation: Draft, review, and negotiate complex technology, commercial, and reseller agreements. Ensure contract terms align with business objectives, industry standards, U.S. Bank policies, and applicable legal and regulatory requirements. Lead negotiations using legal expertise and playbooks. Document contract decisions, exceptions, escalations, and next steps. Drive efficiencies in the negotiation process. Calibrate legal guidance based on deal criticality, revenue impact, and strategic importance.
2. Risk Assessment & Mitigation: Identify and evaluate legal, commercial, and operational risks in product design, development, deployment, and contracting and contribute to risk-mitigation planning. Ensure alignment with applicable contracts, U.S. Bank’s enterprise risk frameworks, third party risk management and regulatory expectations. Escalate elevated risks appropriately and support leadership decision making.
3. Cross Functional Collaboration: Partner with product, compliance, risk partners, operations teams and others to embed legal considerations into product development. Collaborate with compliance, risk, and other legal teams to evaluate regulatory, contractual, and operational readiness of new or modified products. Support go to market preparation, compliance reviews, and launch readiness activities. Partner with and manage outside counsel as needed.
4. Monitoring & Thought Leadership: Monitor emerging laws, regulations, and industry standards impacting technology products, data usage, licensing, intellectual property, and payment solutions. Track advancements in emerging technologies and associated legal frameworks. Advise product and business leaders on legal implications of new trends, innovations, and evolving regulatory expectations.
5. Additional Responsibilities: Assist senior legal leadership with special projects and other legal matters as requested. Develop and refine templates, playbooks, contracting standards, and legal guidance to improve consistency and efficiency.

Qualifications

• Legal qualification in the UK with a minimum of 7 years PQE; and practical experience within Europe; and experience as corporate counsel with a focus on technology product development and launch, complex technology and commercial agreements, reseller or distribution agreements, intellectual property, privacy, data usage, and information security, third party/vendor contracting.

Preferred Experience & Skills

• Familiarity with payment services, global merchant acquiring, alternative payment types, mobile wallets, fraud and security products, financial services regulation, and AI (including agentic AI).
• Experience supporting product teams in a regulated financial services or fintech environment.
• Strong ability to identify legal issues and provide practical, business-oriented solutions.
• Significant experience drafting and negotiating strategic and complex technology agreements, including reseller arrangements.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, including the ability to distill complex concepts for non-lawyers.
• Strong client management, diplomacy, and cross-functional collaboration skills.
• Ability to lead projects, drive change, and influence decision making.
• Strong background in technology, intellectual property, information security, and privacy.

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