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About the Role

The Senior Corporate Counsel role is to act as a legal adviser with a focus on fintech/payments products. The core part of the role will be advising on contract negotiations, new product creation and engaging with other teams across U.S. Bank Europe DAC and its parent U.S. Bank National Association.

Responsibilities

• Leading negotiation and drafting of complex technology, commercial, and reseller agreements.
• Evaluating and mitigating legal and business risks associated with products, contracts, and third party engagements.
• Ensuring global product initiatives comply with regulatory, contractual, and enterprise risk frameworks across 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.
• Build deep product expertise, influence product strategy, and play a key role in ensuring compliant, well structured, and business ready product delivery.
• 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.
• 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. Bank’s enterprise risk frameworks, third party risk management and regulatory expectations.
• Escalate elevated risks appropriately and support leadership decision making.
• 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 go to market preparation, compliance reviews, and launch readiness activities.
• Partner with and manage outside counsel as needed.
• 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.
• 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.

Requirements

• Legal qualification in the UK with a minimum of 7 years PQE
• Practical experience within Europe
• Experience as corporate counsel with a focus on technology product development and launch
• Experience as corporate counsel with a focus on complex technology and commercial agreements
• Experience as corporate counsel with a focus on reseller or distribution agreements
• Experience as corporate counsel with a focus on intellectual property, privacy, data usage, and information security
• Experience as corporate counsel with a focus on third party/vendor contracting

Skills

• Strong ability to identify legal issues and provide practical, business oriented 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 non lawyers.
• Strong client management, diplomacy, and cross functional collaboration skills.
• Ability to lead projects, drive change, and influence decision making.
• Strong background in technology, intellectual property, information security, and privacy.
• Familiarity with payment services
• Familiarity with global merchant acquiring
• Familiarity with alternative payment types
• Familiarity with mobile wallets
• Familiarity with fraud and security products
• Familiarity with financial services regulation
• Familiarity with AI (including agentic AI)
• Experience supporting product teams in a regulated financial services or fintech environment

Location

• Europe

Work Type

• Full-time

Experience Level

• Senior
• 7 years PQE

Education Level

• Legal qualification in the UK

Benefits

• Meaningful opportunities for growth
• Culture of inclusion
• Strong commitment to transparency and integrity
• Market-competitive compensation package
• Clearly defined salary ranges aligned with industry benchmarks and internal equity standards.
• Performance-based incentives for eligible employees
• Inclusive equitable benefits focused around financial wellbeing, health & wellness
• Continuous development opportunities including training, education support, and career progression pathways
• Employee recognition programs

About the Company

• At U.S. Bank, we’re on a journey to do our best. Helping the customers and businesses we serve to make better and smarter financial decisions, enabling the communities we support to grow and succeed in the right ways, all more confidently and more often—that’s what we call the courage to thrive.
• As a wholly owned subsidiary of U.S. Bank, Elavon is committed to building the platforms and ecosystems that help over 1.5 million customers around the world to achieve their financial goals—no matter what they need.
• From transaction processing to customer service, to driving innovation and launching new products, we’re building a range of tailored payment solutions powered by the latest technology.
• We offer meaningful opportunities for growth, a culture of inclusion, and a strong commitment to transparency and integrity in everything we do.

Equal Opportunity

• We actively uphold transparent and fair hiring practices that support individual opportunity, inclusive culture, and career mobility across all levels of our organisation.
• We are committed to providing an inclusive and accessible recruitment experience. If you need adjustments at any stage of the application or hiring process, please contact your recruiter for guidance and support.
• U.S. Bank is committed to fair, equitable, and transparent compensation practices in line with local regulatory and legal requirements. Our total rewards approach is designed to attract, retain, and support top talent while ensuring equal pay for work of equal value.