Description:
Role & Responsibilities:The Digital, Strategic Partnerships & Legal Risk Management team is seeking a Manager & Counsel attorney to provide legal and strategic counsel to (i) Strategic Partnerships, a team that manages many of American Express' most strategic enterprise relationships and (ii) Amex Digital Labs, a team that is focused on developing innovative digital products and services across different platforms. This is a role that requires intensive partnership with business colleagues and other stakeholders.
Help propel your team and its business partners to success.
Here's just some of what you'll do in this role:
- Provide legal and strategic support to business teams in the negotiating, drafting, and ongoing support of partnership and other agreements, working in close collaboration with legal and business colleagues
- Support the exploration and evaluation of potential partnership integrations and pilots,
- Partner closely with business colleagues to understand their concerns and challenges, and use your creativity and practical problem solving to quickly action solutions
- Provide guidance on a broad range of legal, strategic and policy matters, as well as relationship management and operational process questions, all within a dynamic business and regulatory environment
- Engage in ongoing cross-functional collaboration to address privacy, consumer protection, compliance, bank regulatory, intellectual property, data security, data strategy and other issues
- Generate buy-in and develop strategic partnerships across various business unit teams and control groups through relationship-building and effective communication
Are you ready for the challenge?
Minimum Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree & J.D.
- Admitted to New York Bar or eligibility to do so
- 3+ years of relevant legal experience
- Experience drafting, negotiating and reviewing commercial agreements
- Experience advising on new product development
Preferred Qualifications:
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
- Experience with (or strong interest in) digital ecosystems, data and technologies
- Ability to generate creative and innovative solutions to client issues
- Ability to communicate complex issues clearly and persuasively, in both written and oral format
- Ability to build relationships and partner with others to drive results
- Capacity to be agile and pivot appropriately when presented with new information or evolving circumstances
- Experience in FinTech, payments and banking or the wider financial services space.
- Familiarity with one or more of the following topics: mobile payments, electronic payments, remittances, web 3.0, tokenization, or other innovate products enabled by new technologies.
