Top Senior Counsel Jobs in NYC, NY

Provides legal advice and transaction support for structured products, securitizations, structured financing, repurchase facilities, and related capital markets activities. Drafts and negotiates complex legal and offering documents, analyzes regulatory issues, manages outside counsel, supports examinations and litigation, and advises business, compliance, credit, and risk partners. The role also mentors staff, manages multiple matters, and ensures adherence to legal department policies.

Provides global legal counsel on cybersecurity laws, regulations, incident response, third-party risk, audits, regulatory inquiries, information security policies, and emerging technologies. Advises Global Security and cross-functional stakeholders, manages regulatory and law-enforcement interactions, supports executive and board reporting, and contributes to training and tabletop exercises. Requires a JD, active bar membership, and at least eight years of legal experience, with extensive cybersecurity and privacy law expertise.

Provides strategic legal support to Mastercard’s global and North American digital partnerships, fintech, and enabler teams. Advises sales and business stakeholders, addresses regulatory, compliance, privacy, and antitrust matters, and drafts, reviews, and negotiates complex customer, co-brand, strategic relationship, and acceptance agreements. Identifies legal and business risks, recommends solutions, and collaborates with product counsel and other internal stakeholders.

Provides strategic legal counsel to Global Partnerships and North American Digital Partnerships teams. Advises sales and business stakeholders on digital partners, fintechs, program managers, and issuers; drafts, reviews, and negotiates complex customer, strategic relationship, co-brand, and acceptance agreements; identifies legal and business risks; and collaborates on regulatory, compliance, privacy, antitrust, product, and franchise matters.

Provides strategic legal and compliance advice on federal and state insurance, managed care, Medicare Advantage, Medicaid Managed Care, and government program requirements. Monitors regulatory developments, drafts and negotiates client, provider, and vendor agreements, manages legal risk, and supports business growth. Owns legal workflows involving intake, contracting, approvals, escalations, and knowledge management while applying generative AI and legal technology responsibly.

Provides legal and regulatory counsel to Airwallex’s global Yield investment product from design through launch and market expansion. Advises on cross-jurisdictional investment, wealth-management, licensing, broker-dealer, custodial, disclosure, and product-governance matters. Partners with Product, Compliance, Risk, Operations, Marketing, regulators, external counsel, and financial-services partners. Develops scalable legal playbooks, launch checklists, and governance processes while translating complex requirements into practical commercial solutions.

Provides strategic U.S. and global employment law advice to Mastercard’s People & Capability team. Responsibilities include counseling on employee matters, compliance, accommodations, compensation, restructurings, investigations, litigation, contracts, M&A integration, policies, training, and regulatory developments. The role also manages outside counsel, supports cybersecurity acquisition integration, and develops scalable legal resources across a global organization.

Serves as primary legal counsel for Mastercard’s Enterprise and Credit Risk products, advising on privacy, data protection, credit reporting, AI, automated decision-making, regulatory compliance, product development, data governance, market expansion, partnerships, and contracts across jurisdictions. The role establishes legal controls, translates complex requirements into practical guidance, negotiates agreements, and communicates risks to business, product, technical, and regulatory stakeholders.

Serves as the lead legal advisor on OFAC sanctions and BSA/AML requirements for a financial services company. Responsibilities include advising on sanctions programs, investigations, voluntary disclosures, licenses, screening, reporting, product risks, regulatory examinations, commercial agreements, policy development, training, and outside counsel. The role partners with Compliance, Risk, Product, Engineering, Operations, and Financial Crimes teams and engages with OFAC, FinCEN, OCC, and Federal Reserve regulators.

Provide legal counsel and lead strategy for Discover Global Payment Network commercial agreements, product launches, and risk mitigation across Latin America, the Caribbean, and Canada. Negotiate and draft contracts, support fintech and payment innovation, partner with internal legal, risk, and business teams, and drive process and template improvements to enable growth.

Provides legal support for commercial real estate development, construction, and infrastructure projects across CoreWeave’s data center portfolio. Responsibilities include negotiating real estate, construction, engineering, contractor, and professional services agreements; advising on due diligence, zoning, permitting, utilities, entitlements, construction risks, claims, and disputes; managing outside counsel; and developing scalable legal templates and processes.

Litigate prison and immigration detention conditions cases in state and federal courts; conduct legal research, draft pleadings and briefs, manage discovery and hearings, advise ACLU affiliates, develop cases, advocate on policy issues, and engage with clients, witnesses, public audiences, and legal partners nationwide.

Provide transactional legal support for art-backed loans and consignor advances: draft, review and negotiate loan, credit and security documents; conduct due diligence and closings; advise on cross-jurisdictional structuring; develop playbooks and templates; train business partners; partner on process improvements and manage outside counsel and counterparties.

Provide legal leadership for Fiserv’s privacy and enterprise AI governance programs. Advise stakeholders on global privacy and AI regulations, review AI use cases, assess compliance, negotiate data privacy and AI contract provisions, develop governance policies and training, monitor regulatory developments, and support client and vendor negotiations. Requires substantial privacy, data protection, AI governance, or technology transactions experience, legal licensure, and a law degree.

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.

Conduct strategic impact litigation and advocacy on national security, civil liberties, and racial justice issues. Responsibilities include legal research, fact development, drafting pleadings and briefs, discovery, motion practice, oral arguments, legislative analysis, policy advocacy, public education, coalition-building, media engagement, and collaboration with affiliates and partner organizations.

Provides U.S. and global employment-law advice on compensation, benefits, pay equity, recruiting, mobility, immigration, employee privacy, HR AI, and M&A. Drafts employment documents, supports disputes, leads cross-border projects, advises on workforce technology and AI governance, monitors legal developments, and develops scalable legal processes. Partners with People, recruiting, privacy, tax, security, corporate development, and regional legal teams in a fast-moving technology company.

The Senior Counsel will advise leadership on complex legal, contract, intellectual property, nonprofit compliance, governance, lobbying, sponsorship, entertainment, and partnership matters. Responsibilities include negotiating major deals, managing external counsel and legal staff, overseeing event and campaign legal workstreams, leading cross-functional initiatives, improving contract and compliance systems, and implementing enterprise-wide legal training and risk frameworks.

Senior Counsel will independently manage high-exposure insurance defense litigation, including court appearances, depositions, discovery, briefs, trial preparation, and trials. The role requires client communication, case strategy development, relationship building, and leadership of less experienced attorneys. The attorney will collaborate with litigation teams, manage full case responsibilities, and contribute to client service and firm growth.

Provide end-to-end product legal counsel to engineering, product, marketing, commercialization, and communications teams. Advise on data privacy, AI, cybersecurity, technology transactions, product risks, and global regulations. Draft and negotiate product and security-related agreements, including DPAs and BAAs; assess vendor data flows; support incident response; and improve legal processes. The role requires strong business judgment, technical understanding, communication skills, and at least eight years of relevant legal experience with state bar membership.

Advise Capital One’s Board, committees, and senior management on corporate governance, fiduciary duties, securities regulations, and governance policies. Manage board logistics, agendas, meetings, minutes, resolutions, director onboarding, annual stockholder meetings, and related legal materials. Coordinate outside counsel and lead governance projects while handling SEC, NYSE, Delaware law, and regulatory requirements in a complex financial-services environment.

Provides legal counsel to university leadership, primarily on employment matters, litigation, disputes, student issues, and regulatory compliance. Manages litigation strategy, outside counsel, legal research, document drafting, risk mitigation, and policy guidance. Advises Human Resources, supports strategic initiatives, mentors legal staff, and advances legal service delivery through responsible use of AI, document automation, and other technology.

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.

Senior Counsel will support global operations and procurement by drafting and negotiating vendor, technology, SaaS, software licensing, professional services, facilities, marketing, and AI agreements. The role advises on privacy, information security, regulatory, insurance, data protection, vendor governance, disputes, and risk mitigation. It will also develop procurement processes, standard terms, templates, and playbooks while providing practical commercial advice to cross-functional stakeholders in a high-volume, global SaaS environment.

Advise Product, Engineering, Security, and business teams on software, SaaS, cloud, privacy, cybersecurity, AI, intellectual property, and emerging technology regulations. Guide products throughout their lifecycle, assess legal and regulatory risks, draft agreements and privacy documentation, support privacy-by-design, monitor global regulations, and develop scalable legal processes, playbooks, policies, and training.