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U.S. Banks Law Division is seeking an experienced Senior Corporate Counsel who is authorized to practice law in the United States and is in good standing with the appropriate U.S. state licensing authority. This attorney will join the inhouse legal team supporting U.S. Banks payment solutions. The role primarily supports the North America fintech product organization and reports to the Associate General Counsel with responsibility for fintech/payments products.
Position Overview
U.S. Bank both develops proprietary payment solutions and partners with industry-leading companies to offer their products to our customers. This role will support both internal product development and partner relationships providing endtoend legal guidance throughout the product development lifecycle including concept development design build launch readiness commercialization and ongoing operations.
This includes:
- Leading negotiation and drafting of complex technology commercial and reseller agreements.
- Evaluating and mitigating legal and business risks associated with products contracts and thirdparty engagements.
- Ensuring global product initiatives comply with regulatory contractual and enterprise risk frameworks across the U.S. Canada and Europe by partnering with others within the Bank Law Division and outside counsel as appropriate.
- Providing pragmatic legal solutions aligned with business objectives and enterprise risk posture.
The attorney will build deep product expertise influence product strategy and play a key role in ensuring compliant wellstructured and businessready product delivery.
Core Responsibilities
1. Contract Drafting & Negotiation
- Draft review and negotiate complex technology commercial and reseller agreements.
- Ensure contract terms align with business objectives industry standards U.S. Bank policies and applicable legal and regulatory requirements.
- Lead negotiations using legal expertise and playbooks.
- Document contract decisions exceptions escalations and next steps.
- Drive efficiencies in the negotiation process.
- Calibrate legal guidance based on deal criticality revenue impact and strategic importance.
2. Risk Assessment & Mitigation
- Identify and evaluate legal commercial and operational risks in product design development deployment and contracting and contribute to risk-mitigation planning.
- Ensure alignment with applicable contracts U.S. Banks enterprise risk frameworks thirdparty risk management and regulatory expectations.
- Escalate elevated risks appropriately and support leadership decisionmaking.
3. CrossFunctional Collaboration
- Partner with product compliance risk partners operations teams and others to embed legal considerations into product development.
- Collaborate with compliance risk and other legal teams to evaluate regulatory contractual and operational readiness of new or modified products.
- Support gotomarket preparation compliance reviews and launch readiness activities.
- Partner with and manage outside counsel as needed.
4. Monitoring & Thought Leadership
- Monitor emerging laws regulations and industry standards impacting technology products data usage licensing intellectual property and payment solutions.
- Track advancements in emerging technologies and associated legal frameworks.
- Advise product and business leaders on legal implications of new trends innovations and evolving regulatory expectations.
5. Additional Responsibilities
- Assist senior legal leadership with special projects and other legal matters as requested.
- Develop and refine templates playbooks contracting standards and legal guidance to improve consistency and efficiency.
Basic Qualifications
- Licensed by and in good standing with the appropriate state bar association or other appropriate state attorney licensing authority
Preferred Skills/Experience
- At least 7 recent years of legal experience in an inhouse legal department or law firm with a focus on: technology product development and launch complex technology and commercial agreements reseller or distribution agreements intellectual property privacy data usage and information security thirdparty/vendor contracting
- Strong ability to identify legal issues and provide practical businessoriented solutions.
- Significant experience drafting and negotiating strategic and complex technology agreements including reseller arrangements.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills including the ability to distill complex concepts for nonlawyers.
- Strong clientmanagement diplomacy and crossfunctional collaboration skills.
- Ability to lead projects drive change and influence decisionmaking.
- Strong background in technology intellectual property information security and privacy.
- Familiarity with payment services global merchant acquiring alternative payment types mobile wallets fraud and security products financial services regulation and AI (including agentic AI).
- Experience supporting product teams in a regulated financialservices or fintech environment.
Location expectations
This role requires working from a U.S. Bank location three (3) or more days per week.
We are proud that U.S. Bank has been recognized as a Worlds Most Ethical Company by the Ethisphere Institute and has been named the #1 Most Admired Superregional Bank by Fortune magazine.
Successful candidates for a position in the U.S. Bank Law Division support U.S. Banks core values which guide what we do every day:
- We do the right thing.
- We power potential.
- We stay a step ahead.
- We draw strength from diversity.
- We put people first.
In the U.S. Bank Law Division we honor those values through our mission: we guide our clients to remarkable results with expert legal counsel. Our commitment is evident in the work we do not only for the Bank but for our communities. The Law Division has received several awards for its pro bono contributions including the Minnesota Corporate Pro Bono Councils Excellence in Pro Bono Award and we encourage our legal professionals to contribute time and expertise to pro bono work as part of their addition the Law Division has been recognized for its leadership and engagement in Diversity Equity and Inclusion initiatives.
If theres anything we can do to accommodate a disability during any portion of the application or hiring process please refer to ourdisability accommodations for applicants.
Benefits:
Our approach to benefits and total rewards considers our team members whole selves and what may be needed to thrive in and outside work. Thats why our benefits are designed to help you and your family boost your health protect your financial security and give you peace of mind. Our benefits include the following:
Healthcare (medical dental vision)
Basic term and optional term life insurance
Short-term and long-term disability
Pregnancy disability and parental leave
401(k) and employer-funded retirement plan
Paid vacation (from two to five weeks depending on salary grade and tenure)
Up to 11 paid holiday opportunities
Adoption assistance
Sick and Safe Leave accruals of one hour for every 30 worked up to 80 hours per calendar year unless otherwise provided by law
Review our full benefits available by employment status here.
U.S. Bank is an equal opportunity employer. We consider all qualified applicants without regard to race religion color sex national origin age sexual orientation gender identity disability or veteran status and other factors protected under applicable law.
E-Verify
U.S. Bank participates in the U.S. Department of Homeland Security E-Verify program in all facilities located in the United States and certain U.S. territories. The E-Verify program is an Internet-based employment eligibility verification system operated by the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services. Learn more about theE-Verify program.
The salary range reflects figures based on the primary location which is listed first. The actual range for the role may differ based on the location of the addition to salary U.S. Bank offers a comprehensive benefits package including incentive and recognition programs equity stock purchase 401(k) contribution and pension (all benefits are subject to eligibility requirements). Pay Range: $126820.00 - $149200.00U.S. Bank will consider qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records for employment. U.S. Bank conducts background checks consistent with applicable local laws including the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance and the California Fair Chance Act as well as the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance. U.S. Bank is subject to and conducts background checks consistent with the requirements of Section 19 of the Federal Deposit Insurance Act (FDIA). In addition certain positions may also be subject to the requirements of FINRA NMLS registration Reg Z Reg G OFAC the NFA the FCPA the Bank Secrecy Act the SAFE Act and/or federal guidelines applicable to an agreement such as those related to ethics safety or operational procedures.
Applicants must be able to comply with U.S. Bank policies and procedures including the Code of Ethics and Business Conduct and related workplace conduct and safety policies.
Posting may be closed earlier due to high volume of applicants.
Required Experience:
Senior IC
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