Top Senior Legal Jobs in NYC, NY

As Lead Legal Engineer, you will lead high-impact client engagements, manage a team of Legal Engineers, and drive adoption of legal tech solutions while supporting client implementations and stakeholder management.

As a Commercial Counsel at Legora, you will draft and negotiate contracts, advise on commercial risk, and support legal operations across various jurisdictions.

Provides legal and regulatory guidance on cybersecurity, information security, physical security, and global security matters. Drafts and negotiates security contract terms, advises on incident response and crisis management, supports policy advocacy, analyzes regulations across jurisdictions, and counsels senior leaders and security teams. Represents the firm in legal matters, collaborates with outside counsel, and manages complex matters in a regulated financial-services environment.

Lead design, execution, and oversight of Mastercard's global sanctions and export control compliance frameworks. Responsibilities include policy and control enhancements, enterprise risk assessments, sanctions screening oversight, incident investigations, training and communications, due diligence for M&A, new product reviews, regulatory exam and audit support, and senior management reporting.

Advise product, partnership, legal, risk, and compliance teams on complex global technology and strategic partnership transactions. Draft and negotiate agreements, coordinate local counsel across jurisdictions, assess regulatory paths to market, and manage external counsel and consultants. Build relationships with global stakeholders while supporting fintech product strategy and navigating payments, card network, and banking regulations.

Serve as a senior legal partner to Gong’s go-to-market organization. Lead complex enterprise SaaS, AI, licensing, professional services, and strategic commercial negotiations; advise Sales and business leaders on legal risk and deal strategy; develop contracting templates and playbooks; improve legal processes; collaborate cross-functionally; and mentor junior lawyers.

Provide strategic legal support for non-U.S. products, focusing on UCITS fund structures. Advise on regulatory issues, product development, and governance processes in collaboration with senior management.

Provides senior legal counsel on AI, product development, marketing, legal technology, technology transactions, and emerging regulations. Advises Product, Engineering, Marketing, Partner, Customer Success, and Strategy teams; drafts policies and agreement terms; negotiates vendor, open-source, collaboration, and customer agreements; supports product launches and go-to-market strategies; and translates complex AI laws into practical business guidance.

Provide senior legal counsel for trading and treasury functions across US and London/EUR markets. Lead negotiations on prime brokerage, ISDA/CSA, securities lending, repurchase, and banking documentation. Advise on regulatory compliance for transaction reporting, clearing, margin, custody, and collateral. Partner with Risk, Treasury, and business teams and manage cross-functional projects.

Leads legal and compliance operations as the General Counsel’s chief of staff, managing cross-functional projects, legal technology, entity governance, transactions, commercial contracting workflows, risk programs, audits, vendors, and operational metrics. The role improves processes across Legal, HR, Finance, Product, Sales, and executive leadership while supporting global compliance and corporate growth.

Senior Legal Counsel responsible for building and scaling the corporate legal function, managing equity programs, supporting securities offerings, financings, investments, M&A, JVs, and strategic transactions. The role oversees corporate governance, entity administration, compliance, executive compensation, board and stockholder meetings, and transaction readiness. This counsel will collaborate across Finance, HR, Marketing, and other teams while also supporting commercial, privacy, product, intellectual property, employment, and litigation matters.

Provides legal support across portfolio management and capital development, including drafting and negotiating investment management, employment, fund, side letter, placement agent, loan, and transaction documents. Handles portfolio manager onboarding and offboarding, fund formation, investor communications, strategic transactions, and regulatory matters while partnering with senior executives, internal stakeholders, outside counsel, and advisers.

Lead legal structuring and operation of US private equity feeder funds, primarily Delaware limited partnerships. Draft and negotiate LPAs, PPMs, subscription documents, and complex agreements; conduct fund-manager and service-provider due diligence; advise on product launches, co-investments, and secondary markets; manage external counsel; and oversee SEC, FINRA, Form ADV, Form D, and Blue Sky filings. Partner with Sales, Operations, and global legal teams to support US growth.

Build and lead Concourse’s legal function as its first legal hire. Own government contracting, commercial agreements, privacy, security, AI regulation, corporate governance, financings, employment, IP, and vendor matters. Create legal templates, playbooks, and self-service processes, advise product and go-to-market teams, and use AI tools to automate legal workflows. The role requires in-office work in New York City.

Legal Counsel will support US expansion by negotiating complex B2B SaaS agreements, advising AI and engineering teams on product risks, managing privacy and security compliance across jurisdictions, and developing scalable legal policies and processes. The role partners with executive leadership and addresses novel generative AI legal issues in a fast-growing technology startup.

Provide legal advice to product, sales, and local teams across multiple regions; negotiate and draft complex commercial and technology agreements; coordinate with local counsel and manage external advisors; support regulatory strategy, market entry, and government/regulator outreach for fintech/payments products.

Provides strategic legal leadership for PayPal’s U.S. federal and state financial-services regulatory relationships. Serves as primary counsel to supervisory authorities and advises executives on regulatory risk, product approvals, legislative developments, examinations, and enforcement matters. Leads regulatory strategy across payments, money transmission, consumer financial protection, BSA/AML, and electronic funds transfers. Manages and develops a team of regulatory attorneys, collaborates with compliance and risk functions, and represents PayPal before regulators and industry groups.

Provide legal, regulatory, and risk-management advice to wealth business areas administering trusts and fiduciary services for high-net-worth clients and families. Develop practical, commercially sensible solutions, mitigate legal and business risks, and identify and address issues proactively. The role requires a Juris Doctor or equivalent, admission to at least one state bar, and at least five years of trusts and estates experience, including sophisticated fiduciary administration. Fiduciary litigation and in-house legal experience are preferred.

Lead Biograph’s legal function and healthcare compliance program, covering HIPAA, Stark Law, AKS, CPOM, licensing, credentialing, contracts, governance, employment, privacy, security, audits, and risk management. Advise executives and cross-functional teams on regulatory matters, oversee external counsel, develop compliance training and policies, and support expansion across healthcare markets.

Lead and operationalize responses to subpoenas and eDiscovery demands; manage the end-to-end eDiscovery lifecycle; coordinate internal and external stakeholders; draft and improve policies and processes for customer data requests; monitor legal and regulatory developments; and act as project manager to drive litigation operations and legal tech–driven workflow improvements.

Serve as lead commercial counsel for the go-to-market organization, negotiating complex enterprise, strategic, partnership, SaaS, PaaS, IaaS, and AI agreements. Advise sales and business stakeholders on risk, regulatory, privacy, and commercial issues; build scalable legal processes, templates, playbooks, risk frameworks, CLM tools, and AI-enabled workflows; support quote-to-cash automation; and partner with senior leaders on strategic initiatives.

Provides broad legal support for a proprietary trading firm, including analyzing new business opportunities, drafting and negotiating commercial, technology, data, vendor, trading, and counterparty agreements. Advises on corporate, employment, and personnel matters; manages outside counsel; and supports legal needs across jurisdictions and international offices.

Provide legal advice for equity-linked derivatives transactions, including delta-one and non-delta-one products. Draft, negotiate, and execute derivatives and financing documents; identify and escalate legal, regulatory, and reputational risks; collaborate with business and control teams; and manage external counsel. The role requires expertise in ISDA documentation, U.S. securities laws, broker-dealer regulations, Exchange Act rules, and Title VII, plus experience with complex equity derivatives products.

As Privacy Senior Counsel at Fiserv, you will lead legal support for the privacy program focusing on AI governance. Responsibilities include advising stakeholders on AI and data privacy laws, drafting privacy agreements, and ensuring compliance with regulations.

Serve as a business-minded legal partner across commercial contracting, corporate matters, employment, privacy, healthcare compliance, product counseling, AI, and general business issues. Negotiate enterprise technology agreements, advise leadership and cross-functional teams, support HIPAA and data protection needs, manage outside counsel, and build scalable legal templates, policies, playbooks, and approval processes.