Senior Manager, Senior Counsel - Network Deals & Products (Discover Global Payment Network)

In this high-impact role, you will serve as a key strategic partner and important voice within the business, helping drive growth across LACC. You will provide essential legal advice and support on a variety of commercial initiatives and transactions for the Discover Global Payment Network, working closely with business and legal partners across the organization.

This position will have responsibility for:

- Providing expert counsel and strategic guidance across a critical spectrum of areas impacting commercial relationships, including commercial contracting and risk identification and mitigation

- Negotiating, drafting, and guiding implementation of commercial agreements, working in close collaboration with legal and business colleagues and other subject matter experts

- Supporting credit, fintech and payment innovation related new product initiatives and innovation across the global network

- Supporting the development and maintenance of products, rules, contracts and the network ecosystem as it relates to these high growth and high priority regions Identifying and supporting process improvements to promote agility in legal and related business operations, including contract template improvements

- Partnering collaboratively with other internal counsel and business teams across the enterprise

- Partnering with Risk and Compliance teams to ensure comprehensive support

- Ability to understand complex topics quickly with depth that allows for concise and simple advice

- Problem solving mentality rather than thinking only like a legal technician

- Excellent judgment with the ability to predict long-term consequences

- Growth mindset with an openness to new ideas, diverse perspectives, and unconventional solutions

- Strong people skills - we're looking for someone who can build collegial and effective relationships with colleagues and clients

- Ownership mentality, thinking like an owner vs. an employee

- Solid time management skills with the ability to prioritize a significant volume of work and to manage multiple deadlines

- Excellent communication skills with the ability to influence others and write concisely

- At least 6 years of experience as an attorney in a law firm environment, at a government agency, as a military judge advocate, or as in-house counsel

- 7+ years of experience as an attorney in a law firm environment, at a government agency, as a military judge advocate, or as in-house counsel

This role is hybrid meaning associates spend 3 days per week in-person at one of our offices listed on this job posting.

New York, NY: $219,000 - $249,900 for Sr. Manager, Sr. Counsel