Senior Counsel

Our Purpose

Mastercard powers economies and empowers people in 200+ countries and territories worldwide. Together with our customers, we're helping build a sustainable economy where everyone can prosper. We support a wide range of digital payments choices, making transactions secure, simple, smart and accessible. Our technology and innovation, partnerships and networks combine to deliver a unique set of products and services that help people, businesses and governments realize their greatest potential.

Title and Summary

Senior Counsel

Our Purpose

Mastercard powers economies and empowers people in 200+ countries and territories worldwide. Together with our customers, we're helping build a sustainable economy where everyone can prosper. We support a wide range of digital payments choices, making transactions secure, simple, smart and accessible. Our technology and innovation, partnerships and networks combine to deliver a unique set of products and services that help people, businesses and governments realize their greatest potential.

At Mastercard Services, we go beyond payments. We deliver cutting-edge solutions that help businesses, financial institutions, and governments unlock growth and manage risk. By combining deep industry expertise, advanced technology, and data-driven insights, we enable smarter decisions and better outcomes worldwide. Security Solutions ("SSO") is part of Mastercard Services and provides products that help customers prevent fraud, strengthen identity, enhance cybersecurity resilience, detect financial crime, and protect the integrity of digital commerce.

SSO includes product families such as Identity, Fraud & Financial Crimes, Cybersecurity, Payment Resiliency, Decisioning, and related security offerings delivered globally.

Title

Senior Counsel, Services Legal, Security Solutions

Overview

Mastercard is seeking a strategic, business‑minded commercial and technology attorney to join the Services Legal team supporting the SSO business. The role will focus primarily on SSO's cybersecurity and threat intelligence offerings including cyber tools that protect the payments ecosystem, as well as enterprise cybersecurity products for CISOs; the role will support product development, commercialization, and sales activities across this portfolio.

This is a client‑facing role that involves close collaboration with product management, engineering, sales, customer delivery, and senior business leadership. The successful candidate will serve as a trusted legal partner to fast‑moving teams bringing complex technology products to market in a global, regulated environment.

The position will be based in either Purchase, New York or Miami, Florida.

While the role focuses on cybersecurity and threat intelligence, the position may evolve over time to support additional Security Solutions offerings and/or broader, region based product legal coverage as business needs and priorities develop.

Role and Responsibilities

The role provides end‑to‑end legal support for cybersecurity and threat intelligence products and, as required, for additional Security Solutions offerings and/or regional Security Solutions portfolios, with a particular focus on enabling commercialization while managing legal, regulatory, and reputational risk in a practical and solutions‑oriented manner.

Responsibilities include advising product and engineering teams throughout the product lifecycle, including product design, development, deployment, and go‑to‑market execution. The role supports both new and existing products, including incremental enhancements, pilots, and scaled offerings.

The position involves structuring, drafting, and negotiating a wide range of commercial and technology agreements, including customer agreements, pilot and proof‑of‑concept agreements, software and platform terms, statements of work, partner and reseller arrangements, and vendor agreements. The role partners closely with sales and delivery teams to support customer transactions and advance deals efficiently while appropriately managing risk.

The role also includes advising on legal and regulatory considerations applicable to cybersecurity and…