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Our Purpose
Mastercard powers economies and empowers people in 200+ countries and territories worldwide. Together with our customers, we're helping build a sustainable economy where everyone can prosper. We support a wide range of digital payments choices, making transactions secure, simple, smart and accessible. Our technology and innovation, partnerships and networks combine to deliver a unique set of products and services that help people, businesses and governments realize their greatest potential.
Title and Summary
Senior Counsel Overview• Mastercard is committed to balancing innovation while protecting individual privacy and has embraced privacy and data protection as core to the successful execution of our business strategy. As part of that commitment, Mastercard has established a world-class privacy program and is adding talent to our global team.
• The Senior Counsel role will ensure compliance with global privacy and data protection laws while enabling data-driven innovation within the Services organization, with particular focus on supporting a personalization platform and decision engine company.
• The position will report to the Senior Managing Counsel, Privacy & Data Protection, and will serve as a member of both the Global Privacy & Data Protection team and the Law & Policy team.
• The ideal candidate will have the ability to think and act both strategically and tactically with respect to the needs of business clients and their objectives while ensuring that the corporation remains compliant with data protection laws and other laws relating to data as well as industry best practices.
Role
• Engage with business and legal stakeholders to conduct privacy by design reviews for new features of the Dynamic Yield personalization platform and decision engine, and accelerate Mastercard's initiatives related to digital commerce.
• Support synergies between personalization platform and other Mastercard technology such as loyalty products and services while: (i) ensuring compliance with corporate standards and privacy and data protection laws including GDPR, GLBA, HIPAA and CCPA, (ii) coordinating with regional counsel to ensure compliance with other laws, and (iii) engaging with outside counsel when needed.
• Draft and negotiate data processing terms and agreements with vendors and customers, including in relation to international data transfers, consent and notice representations and other liabilities.
• Review privacy policies and documentation practices, and overall data practices.
• Identify business requirements resulting from new and evolving privacy laws and regulations and provide guidance and thought leadership on topics relevant to the Services organization, including but not limited to cookie regulations and artificial intelligence.
• Educate the business on legal developments and controls for the further development of products and services within the Services organization.
• Document and update a range of stakeholders including executives on identified privacy compliance gaps and recommended remedial measures.
All About You
• JD from an accredited law school and admitted to at least one bar in Belgium or Canada.
• Demonstrated experience and technical familiarity with data analytics, computer science, and/or mathematics preferred.
• Expertise in global privacy and data regulatory laws and frameworks and familiarity with the GDPR, GLBA, HIPAA, CCPA and privacy principles that are common across global laws and regulations.
• Demonstrated experience in relevant technologies including cookie regulations and artificial intelligence, and familiarity with ethical frameworks, data governance, and accountability.
• Familiarity with emerging technologies and associated privacy implications.
• Strong analytic capabilities and written and oral communication skills.
• Exceptional interpersonal skills with proven experience in relationship building and partnering with legal, business, and technical colleagues.
• Ability to motivate and influence highly-skilled professionals to achieve major organizational goals.
• Familiarity with Privacy by Design methodologies.
• Strong writing skills and ability to simplify technical material for other audiences, including business teams, legal departments, and regulators
• Deep understanding of Mastercard products and services, or financial services in general.
Corporate Security Responsibility
All activities involving access to Mastercard assets, information, and networks comes with an inherent risk to the organization and, therefore, it is expected that every person working for, or on behalf of, Mastercard is responsible for information security and must:
Abide by Mastercard's security policies and practices;
Ensure the confidentiality and integrity of the information being accessed;
Report any suspected information security violation or breach, and
Complete all periodic mandatory security trainings in accordance with Mastercard's guidelines.
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