Senior Corporate Counsel - Product; FinTech Product Development & Technology Partner Agreements
Listed on 2026-02-08
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Law/Legal
Overview
At U.S. Bank, we’re on a journey to do our best. Helping customers and businesses make better and smarter financial decisions, enabling communities to grow and succeed in the right ways, with courage to thrive. A career with U.S. Bank offers opportunities to discover what makes you thrive, learn new skills, try new things from Day One.
Elavon, a wholly owned subsidiary of U.S. Bank, builds platforms and ecosystems to help customers achieve their financial goals. We offer transaction processing, customer service, and innovative payment solutions powered by the latest technology. This role is part of our in‑house Law Division and supports U.S. Bank’s payment solutions and fintech products.
Position suitable for an experienced corporate attorney authorized to practice in the United States, in good standing with the appropriate state licensing authority, joining the in‑house legal team supporting the North America fintech product organization and reporting to the Associate General Counsel responsible for fintech/payments products.
PositionSenior Corporate Counsel – fintech/payments products. Supports internal product development and partner relationships with end‑to‑end legal guidance across the product lifecycle, including concept development, design, build, launch readiness, commercialization, and ongoing operations.
Core Responsibilities- Draft, review, and negotiate complex technology, commercial, and reseller agreements.
- Ensure contract terms align with business objectives, policies, and applicable legal and regulatory requirements.
- Lead negotiations using established playbooks and legal expertise.
- Document contract decisions, exceptions, escalations, and next steps.
- Drive efficiencies in the negotiation process and calibrate guidance based on deal criticality and strategic importance.
- Identify and evaluate legal, commercial, and operational risks in product design, development, deployment, and contracting.
- Ensure alignment with enterprise risk and third‑party risk management frameworks and regulatory expectations.
- Escalate elevated risks and support leadership decision‑making.
- Partner with product, compliance, risk, operations, and other teams to embed legal considerations into product development.
- Collaborate with compliance, risk, and other legal teams to evaluate regulatory and operational readiness of new or modified products.
- Support go‑to‑market readiness, compliance reviews, and launch activities.
- Partner with and manage outside counsel as needed.
- Monitor emerging laws, regulations, and industry standards impacting technology products, data usage, licensing, IP, and payment solutions.
- Track advancements in emerging technologies and related legal frameworks.
- Advise product and business leaders on legal implications of new trends and regulatory expectations.
- Assist senior legal leadership with special projects and other matters as requested.
- Develop and refine templates, playbooks, contracting standards, and legal guidance to improve consistency and efficiency.
Licensed by and in good standing with the appropriate state bar association or other suitable state attorney licensing authority.
Preferred Skills/Experience- At least 7 years of legal experience in an in‑house legal department or law firm with focus on technology product development, complex technology and commercial agreements, reseller or distribution agreements, IP, privacy, data usage, and information security, and third‑party/vendor contracting.
- Ability to identify legal issues and provide practical, business‑oriented solutions.
- Significant experience drafting and negotiating strategic and complex technology agreements, including reseller arrangements.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills; ability to distill complex concepts for non‑lawyers.
- Strong client management, diplomacy, and cross‑functional collaboration skills.
- Ability to lead projects, drive change, and influence decision‑making.
- Strong background in technology, IP, information security, and privacy.
- Famili…
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