Sr. Associate Counsel (Commercial and Technology ) Asia Pacific

Company Description

Visa is a world leader in payments and technology, with over 259 billion payments transactions flowing safely between consumers, merchants, financial institutions, and government entities in more than 200 countries and territories each year. Our mission is to connect the world through the most innovative, convenient, reliable, and secure payments network, enabling individuals, businesses, and economies to thrive while driven by a common purpose – to uplift everyone, everywhere by being the best way to pay and be paid.

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Job Description

Team Summary

The Visa Asia Pacific Legal team manages Visa's legal affairs in the Asia Pacific region. Our team provides advice and services to ensure business goals are successfully met and that Visa's brand and reputation are protected while minimizing legal liability and regulatory risk. Our vision entails each legal professional living the guiding principles to be a proactive partner who never loses sight of his/her responsibility to protect the company.

What a Senior Associate Counsel (Commercial and Technology ) Asia Pacific does at Visa:

The position is for a highly motivated and skilled attorney to join Visa's growing legal team. You will be a key commercial and technology lawyer supporting the Visa business/legal teams in the following areas:

• Strategic sourcing and purchase and resale transactions with vendors, including leading information technology hardware, data, telecommunications, software, SaaS/PaaS/IaaS and professional services companies

• Reviewing, updating, and creating various templates across a variety of Visa service offerings (in collaboration with stakeholders across Visa, including regulatory compliance, risk, data privacy, technology, sourcing, and intellectual property). 

• Providing legal advice to the Visa business teams as required, on any product/value added services initiatives (whether on the client side or the vendor side), and providing hands-on guidance and support for negotiations

• Some marketing related and other general contracting/commercial legal support as required.

The successful candidate will report to the Senior Managing Counsel, Visa Asia Pacific Legal, and will be expected to work closely and in collaboration with Visa lawyers across geographies and functional support areas, including the Visa lawyers in/from the US headquarters and other international offices.

You should have an understanding of outsourcing and material outsourcing regulation and laws in Singapore (and preferably, in addition, other jurisdictions in the Asia Pacific) and have experience in conducting and leading contractual negotiations.  You should also be well versed in commercial, technology and IP laws, and be able to apply this experience to your role in Visa by being a sound and practical legal advisor to the business.  You must have excellent risk judgment and analytical capability, and be a strong and efficient communicator, with the ability to juggle multiple priorities in a fast paced and challenging, but rewarding, environment. 

In this role, you are expected to:

• Be the lead counsel driving commercial negotiations on both the supply side as well as the client facing side.

• Assist with regulatory consultations/compliance with regulations across the region as applicable to existing or new Visa products/initiatives.

• Assist with regulatory issues relating to products, services or functions.

• Draft, negotiate and drive to completion complex commercial, technology, or strategic partnership agreements in support of business objectives.

• Provide advice and guidance to business and product teams regarding deal structures and key risks and proactively identify and resolve legal issues/risks.

• Travel internationally as needed.

• Possess strong inter-personal skills including the ability to communicate complex legal issues (and relevant solutions/recommendations), clearly and practically to the business.

Why this is important to Visa

The Senior Associate Counsel will play a key role as a trusted advisor to our commercial solutions and products businesses that represent some of the most important pillars of Visa’s future growth and strategy. This role is critical in ensuring that both supply and client facing contracts and negotiations are managed efficiently with relevant stakeholders while enabling our business to innovate and push across new frontiers (particularly in the fast-evolving global payments industry).

The Senior Associate Counsel can look forward to being a key representative of a high performing Legal team in advising and managing projects that drive innovation and development within the payments industry.

Projects you will be a part of:

You will be a member of a regional legal team that works at the cutting edge of new payment technologies, innovation and the fintech industry in an increasingly regulated environment, which brings unique and novel challenges in the commercial/technology law space.

This is a hybrid position. Expectation of days in office will be confirmed by your hiring manager.

Qualifications

We are looking for a strong lawyer who brings of breadth of experience and knowledge of the industry and our business. As a candidate, you should:

• Have 6-8 years PQE in technology transactions experience (specifically in depth, hands-on expertise in drafting and negotiating technology sourcing agreements with large Saas vendors), some of which must be at a top tier law firm or MNC
• Have outstanding academic credentials, including a degree from a well-recognized and reputable law school
• Be able to work independently and interface with executive level stakeholders with little or no supervision, but also be a good team player
• Be a practical and proactive problem-solver, must have a strong business acumen and be confident, mature and calm under fire
• Demonstrate the ability to communicate clearly and concisely with multiple stakeholders including senior executives.
• Demonstrate an ability to manage and drive complex commercial and technology transactions, including international and regional deals.
• Have an understanding of banking and payments regulation and laws in multiple jurisdictions in Asia.
• Have excellent legal analytical skills with the ability to integrate legal advice and business knowledge, while providing balanced advice regarding risks and benefits.
• Be admitted to practice in a Commonwealth jurisdiction is preferred.

Additional Information

Visa is an EEO Employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability or protected veteran status. Visa will also consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with EEOC guidelines and applicable local law.