Sr. Associate Counsel, Legal

Company Description
Visa is a world leader in digital payments, facilitating more than 215 billion payments transactions between consumers, merchants, financial institutions and government entities across 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.

When you join Visa, you join a culture of purpose and belonging - where your growth is priority, your identity is embraced, and the work you do matters. We believe that economies that include everyone everywhere, uplift everyone everywhere. Your work will have a direct impact on billions of people around the world - helping unlock financial access to enable the future of money movement.
**Join Visa: A Network Working for Everyone.**

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 Sr. Associate Counsel in Legal does at Visa**:
The position is for a seasoned commercial attorney to join Visa's growing legal team. This role will focus in particular on supporting Visa's businesses in their development and expansion of the category of Value Added Services - these include new data or technology products, as well as the provision of consulting and advisory services and the licensing of data analytics and other data products. The position will report to the Senior Managing Counsel who is Visa’s Regional Privacy Counsel and the lead lawyer for Visa’s Consulting & Analytics, Data Products and Innovation teams within the Asia Pacific region.

We are looking for a strong legal advisor and commercial lawyer rolled into one with excellent communication and analytical skills, who is self-motivated and willing to work reasonably hard. Prior payments experience is not required, although the applicant must be willing to learn Visa's business model and the payments industry.

In this role, you are expected to:

- Work closely with business teams to review and advise on the legal impact of new business initiatives, as well as day to day product related matters. This includes drafting/reviewing of standard product terms and templates for use within the AP region
- Be an effective representative of the AP Legal team and liaise with other regional and country lawyers as well as other functions in supporting Visa’s current business and new initiatives across the Asia Pacific region
- Assist in regulatory and government engagements/consultations on regulations (including payments and open data) across the region and be an effective strategic advisor to the business and government engagement teams
- Be a dedicated resource/go to lawyer for various business functions that are providing Value Added Services to Visa’s clients, including our Visa Consulting and Analytics team which provides advisory and consultancy services to clients as well as data analytics and other data products
- Draft, negotiate and drive to completion complex commercial, technology, or strategic partnership agreements in support of business objectives
- Provide counseling and advice to business and product teams regarding deal structures and key risks and on identifying and resolving legal issues
- Some travel may be required
**Why this is important to Visa**

The Sr. Associate Counsel will play a key role as a trusted advisor in some of the most important pillars of Visa’s growth and strategy. This role is critical in ensuring that legal risks are identified and managed efficiently with relevant stakeholders while enabling our business to innovate and push across new frontiers (particularly in the fast-evolving technology, innovation, and data space).

The Sr. 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.

**Qualifications**:
What you will need:

- Have a minimum 8+ years data commercial and/or technology transactions experience, some of which must be at a top tier law firm or MNC
- Have a strong 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 includi