Top Counsel Jobs in NYC, NY

Provides legal and regulatory counsel to enterprise technology teams developing and governing AI-driven, cloud, and emerging technology platforms. Advises on technology risk, cybersecurity and privacy laws, regulatory examinations, audits, disclosures, strategic technology contracts, and third-party vendor relationships. Partners with technology, product, design, risk, compliance, regulators, and business leaders to identify risks and enable legally supported innovation.

Commercial Counsel will negotiate complex customer-facing agreements for payment, data, and financial services products. Responsibilities include advising sales, account management, product, and regulatory teams; managing early-stage disputes; interpreting contracts; addressing legal and operational risks; developing negotiation playbooks; training commercial teams; and driving legal automation. The role requires autonomous, cross-functional work in a fast-paced global environment and is based in the New York office with periodic travel.

Provides legal and regulatory counsel on advertising and product claims for health products. Reviews claim substantiation, scientific and clinical evidence, consumer-facing materials, and campaign content for FDA and FTC compliance. Advises cross-functional medical, regulatory, clinical, growth, and marketing teams on legal risk, required revisions, and supporting evidence. Monitors regulatory developments, enforcement actions, litigation, and state laws while maintaining claim-review documentation.

Leads legal strategy for global energy and power procurement supporting hyperscale data centers and cloud infrastructure. Negotiates PPAs, utility agreements, interconnection and transmission contracts, renewable energy transactions, and infrastructure development agreements. Advises executives on energy regulation, manages PUC and FERC compliance, supports financing and construction initiatives, coordinates international regulatory matters, mitigates power availability risks, and manages outside counsel and legal budgets.

Commercial Counsel will own Hex’s commercial contracting, including enterprise customer agreements, vendor and AI partner contracts, NDAs, sponsorships, and marketing partnerships. The role partners with Sales, Product, Operations, Legal Ops, and cross-functional teams; advises on data, privacy, security, and AI terms; negotiates complex deals; improves legal playbooks; and uses AI and automation to streamline contracting.

Owns end-to-end legal support for a consumer fintech business, advising on products, marketing, regulatory compliance, privacy, licensing, litigation, and customer-facing terms. Manages regulatory examinations, inquiries, outside counsel, vendor oversight, policies, training, and legal operations. Builds AI-enabled legal workflows, including intake, playbooks, templates, matter management, and reporting, while supporting corporate, employment, intellectual property, financing, insurance, and state licensing matters.

Serve as Sage’s first General Counsel, leading commercial contracting and building scalable legal processes for a healthcare technology company. Advise executives and the board on healthcare regulation, privacy, corporate governance, product, AI, connected hardware, intellectual property, employment, and financing matters. Partner with Engineering and Product on HIPAA, security, resident data, and incident response issues. Manage outside counsel and balance legal risk, business priorities, and growth.

Provides legal counsel and strategic guidance for Global Payment Network commercial transactions. Negotiates and drafts agreements, advises on merchant, issuer, and acquirer relationships, identifies and mitigates risk, leads transactional attorneys and legal professionals, and improves contract templates, playbooks, and legal processes. Partners with internal counsel and business teams across the enterprise.

Lead Qualtrics’ global commercial legal strategy, enterprise contract negotiations, partner operations, and go-to-market legal architecture. Partner with revenue, sales operations, finance, product, and information security leaders to accelerate deal cycles, implement playbooks and automated contracting workflows, manage risk, and support revenue recognition. Lead and mentor a team of commercial attorneys and contract managers while advising executives on strategic partnerships, enterprise agreements, and international expansion.

Leads Mastercard’s global competition law and antitrust compliance program. Advises senior leaders, maintains global policy, conducts risk assessments, implements controls and monitoring, develops training and communications, oversees regulatory investigations, and evaluates products and technologies for compliance. The role also drives process improvements and technology-enabled efficiencies while partnering with legal, compliance, HR, and business teams worldwide.

Senior legal counsel supporting product, engineering, cloud marketplace, AI, and strategic alliance transactions. Responsibilities include negotiating inbound technology licenses, OEM and API agreements, cloud-provider partnerships, AI platform contracts, joint development arrangements, marketplace terms, and related IP, privacy, security, competition, and compliance matters. The role also manages agreement lifecycles, develops legal playbooks, advises on technical implementation, and ensures upstream contractual obligations align with customer commitments.

Commercial Counsel supporting high-volume sales contracting by drafting, reviewing, and negotiating customer agreements and order forms. The role partners with Sales, Deal Desk, Finance, and Privacy, manages deal queues and approvals, develops contracting playbooks and workflows, and builds AI-driven tools to automate routine legal work. Candidates should have substantial legal experience, strong SaaS or technology contracting expertise, excellent business judgment, and the ability to manage deadline-driven negotiations independently.

Provides independent legal counsel on healthcare regulations, employee benefits agreements, commercial contracts, AI initiatives, and product launches. Reviews pharmacy, telehealth, licensure, fraud and abuse, privacy, and healthcare product risks; negotiates agreements; develops AI governance processes, templates, playbooks, and training; monitors regulatory developments; and coordinates complex matters across legal, product, engineering, privacy, security, compliance, finance, and procurement teams.

Leads Affirm’s global Product, Regulatory, Innovation, Licensing, Litigation, and Enforcement legal functions. Advises executives, board members, regulators, and cross-functional leaders on consumer financial products, payments, product development, regulatory matters, litigation, enforcement, and risk mitigation. Develops strategic plans, oversees regulatory inquiries and examinations, manages legal teams and budgets, and partners with senior leadership to support business growth and organizational effectiveness.

Provides legal leadership for M&A, strategic transactions, venture investments, and financial partnerships with banks and financial institutions. Independently manages deals from structuring and diligence through negotiation, signing, closing, and integration. Drafts and negotiates transaction and financial services agreements, coordinates cross-functional stakeholders, develops legal playbooks, and leads AI-enabled workflow improvements while protecting confidentiality, privilege, and legal judgment.

Employment Counsel will own U.S. employment litigation and disputes, manage external counsel, advise HR and business leaders on complex employment matters, and develop global policies, playbooks, templates, and training. The role covers wage and hour, discrimination, accommodations, classification, leave, and pay transparency issues while partnering with legal and HR teams globally. The position is based in New York, requires U.S. bar admission, and includes periodic travel to other offices.

Provides legal counsel on technology and artificial intelligence matters, including intellectual property, technology contracts, licensing, regulatory risks, and digital innovation. Advises internal stakeholders, develops IP strategies, conducts legal research, drafts guidance, manages complex workstreams, and coaches team members. The role requires translating complex legal requirements into practical recommendations while supporting risk management, commercialization, and portfolio protection.

Serve as strategic legal counsel to product and engineering teams on AI/ML, data governance, intellectual property, regulatory, and platform issues. Develop scalable legal frameworks and launch checklists for AI product innovation, act as the primary legal partner for product initiatives, collaborate with legal subject-matter experts, and help build the Product Counsel function’s operating model and culture.

Drafts, reviews, and negotiates SaaS subscription and other commercial agreements for sales and partner teams. Maintains contract templates, negotiation playbooks, and legal processes; supports vendor transactions, privacy and security issues, and sales-contract scalability. Conducts employee training and partners with internal business clients in a fast-paced technology environment.

Provides strategic legal counsel to Network Marketing, Brand, and Communications teams; manages legal reviews, improves review processes, partners cross-functionally, and oversees outside counsel on complex matters. Requires a Juris Doctor, active state bar membership, and at least six years of attorney experience. The role is hybrid and focuses on payments, marketing, brand, and communications legal matters.

Provides embedded legal and regulatory counsel for Airwallex’s global Yield investment product. Advises on product design, customer documentation, licensing, partner arrangements, market launches, and expansion across multiple jurisdictions. Translates complex requirements into practical product decisions, develops legal playbooks and governance processes, and collaborates with Product, Compliance, Risk, Operations, Marketing, regulators, external counsel, and financial partners.

Provide employment law counsel across the Americas, advising on employee lifecycle matters, workplace investigations, disputes, litigation, contractor classification, cross-border work, compensation, benefits, and terminations. Develop employment policies, playbooks, templates, and manager guidance while coordinating external counsel and partnering with People, Legal, Privacy, and business teams in a regulated fintech environment.

Counsel II will negotiate and execute diverse vendor agreements, including technology, cloud, SaaS, marketing technology, data platform, contractor, lease, and payment processing contracts. The role partners with Procurement, Finance, Engineering, Product, Information Security, Privacy, and other teams; develops legal playbooks, templates, and training; improves contracting processes; manages high deal volume; and provides practical guidance on privacy, data protection, and commercial legal matters.

Leads legal strategy for structured finance and capital markets transactions, including debt facilities, warehouse lines, forward flows, securitizations, and secondary-market transactions. Negotiates commercial contracts, supports corporate governance and financing documentation, advises on regulatory compliance, manages outside counsel, and supervises corporate and commercial attorneys. Partners with executive, finance, treasury, and compliance teams to structure financing products and build scalable legal processes.

Provides legal counsel to BlackRock’s U.S. registered funds business, advising on fund launches, product structuring, SEC registration statements, regulatory compliance, operations, contracts, and shareholder communications. The role manages outside counsel, supports business initiatives, reviews regulatory proposals, and partners with compliance and operational teams to mitigate legal and business risks.