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Job Description Summary:An American Company Operating an Online Payments System is seeking a strong transactional lawyer to be responsible for providing best in class commercial support for some of An American Company Operating an Online Payments System's largest merchant and partner deals. The successful candidate will partner with An American Company Operating an Online Payments System's global sales teams to negotiate the most strategic and complex transactions with An American Company Operating an Online Payments System's merchants, marketplaces and partners spanning all of An American Company Operating an Online Payments System's product and service offerings globally.
Job Description:
Key Responsibilities and Your Day-to-Day:
- The position will involve drafting and negotiating highly complex multinational agreements (including with large global merchant organizations) and providing sophisticated, quick, concise, and high-quality legal advice.
- The negotiations will include coordinating cross-functionally within An American Company Operating an Online Payments System to effectively craft deal strategies and to provide innovative advice for An American Company Operating an Online Payments System (including in the area of cross border payment services).
- Ideally this attorney will be well-versed in technology, licensing, and payment/financial services (including payments product solutions), with a critical eye towards risk and regulatory issues.
- Because the job will involve a large amount of drafting, editing, and writing, exceptional writing skills are an absolute necessity.
- The ideal candidate will be a confident self-starter with strong interpersonal and organizational skills and a demonstrated ability to: effectively and proactively provide sound legal advice; build credibility with business partners; exercise good business judgment; work with senior management; and implement policies and processes on a cross-functional basis in a fast-paced environment.
- Juris Doctorate or equivalent degree, with state bar membership
- At least 8 years' experience practicing either in-house or at a law firm
- At least 2 years' experience managing large deal closings that involved tracking the status of interrelated agreements, triggers, and stakeholder requirements
- Experience directly negotiating complex sales, marketing, or partner agreements with external parties
- Experience working with multiple client-side stakeholders such as: sales, privacy, product, regional counsel, risk, and regulatory
- Ability to spot issues and problems, take initiative, find solutions, make recommendations, organize internal coordination, bring about decisions and implement change.
- Demonstrated ability to effectively navigate legal, compliance and business needs
- Exceptional attention to detail and ability to generate creative original legal documents
- Hands-on experience, either as outside or inside counsel, to financial services, fintech or technology companies
- Outstanding communication skills and ability to work both in teams and independently
- Strong negotiation and interpersonal skills and the ability to partner with internal and external stakeholders across the globe
- Experience in payments
- Ability to be highly engaged and succeed in a collaborative environment
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