Head of Legal, Global Information Technology and Procurement, SVP

Head of Legal, Global Information Technology and Procurement, SVP

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Who We Are Looking For

The Senior Vice President (SVP) and Head of Legal, Global Information Technology and Procurement is responsible for providing informed and commercially practical legal counsel to State Street’s executive leadership in developing, adopting and implementing new and evolving technologies, protecting and ensuring resilient technology systems, structuring and managing critical third‑party relationships and maintaining compliance with increasingly stringent regulatory frameworks globally. This responsibility includes incorporating strategic and tactical legal advice into State Street’s plans and practices to maintain information security, meet client expectations, engage and manage vendor relationships, execute acquisitions and complex technology‑based strategic alliances and protect intellectual property.

The role reports the Executive Vice President and Global Head of Corporate and Regulatory Legal and has managerial responsibility for approximately 8 experienced technology licensing lawyers globally.

Why this role is important to us

State Street is a global systemically important financial institution competing with other large, multinational organizations to provide services to highly sophisticated clients under the strictest of regulatory standards. Information technology is at the core of everything we do and is how we provide and evolve the most advanced services while optimizing the efficiency and resiliency of service delivery. The team you will be leading plays a key role in the overall success of the organization, offering viable solutions to navigate an evolving environment.

Across the globe, institutional investors rely on State Street to help them manage risk, respond to challenges and drive performance and profitability. In your role you will strive for cutting‑edge solutions that are straightforward and scalable, build resilience and execute day‑to‑day deliverables at our best.

What You Will Be Responsible For

• Counsel the internal development of, and licensing or acquisition of third‑party, new and evolving technologies, including protection of proprietary and confidential information, compliance with third‑party intellectual property rights, internal governance, resiliency and sensitivity to regulatory frameworks globally

• Structure, negotiate, execute and implement critical technology and vendor relationships, including outsourcings, licensing arrangements, joint ventures and other strategic alliances, optimizing commercial opportunities for State Street while understanding, mitigating and internally communicating related risks

• Advise on maintaining effective continuing engagement, communication and oversight regarding technology and vendor relationships, implementation of associated governance processes and management of related disputes and claims

• Protect State Street’s intellectual property assets by implementing responsible practices in connection with system and product development activities, and State Street’s reputation

• Proactively identify, understand and communicate relevant information technology trends and related legal developments, and their potential benefits or threats to State Street’s operations

• Monitor, maintain expertise in and counsel pragmatic implementation of regulatory standards and expectations for a global systemically important financial institution, including balancing potentially differing legal and regulatory requirements in multiple jurisdictions

• Advance and optimize Legal Department and corporate practices (e.g., vendor contracting, due diligence, IP protection) to promote an environment of continuing simplification, process improvement and efficiency

• Leverage subject matter and legal expertise and visibility into State Street’s global objectives to provide proactive professional challenge and suggest solutions for both business lines and corporate functions to achieve risk‑sensitive and balanced outcomes that meet business goals, taking into…