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About the Role

This role will serve as a primary advisor to the Board of Directors and executive leadership on legal, regulatory, risk, and governance matters, and as a trusted strategic partner to the President and CEO. The Chief Legal Officer will lead an integrated global legal and risk organization responsible for protecting S&P Global’s license to operate while enabling innovation, growth, and transformation across the enterprise.

Responsibilities

Serve as a principal advisor to the Board and its Committees on corporate governance, securities law, disclosure, enterprise risk oversight, and fiduciary matters.
Ensure strong, timely, and decision-ready engagement with the Board, supporting effective oversight during a period of enterprise transformation.
Oversee public company obligations, including SEC and stock exchange requirements, in close partnership with Finance, Investor Relations, and senior leadership.
Act as a strategic partner to the business on growth initiatives, including product innovation, new commercial models, strategic partnerships, and geographic expansion.
Provide legal leadership on M&A and other strategic transactions, supporting disciplined execution of inorganic growth priorities.
Lead senior-level engagement with key regulators and enforcement bodies, including the SEC, DOJ, and relevant global regulators, ensuring consistency, credibility, and preparedness.
Anticipate regulatory and enforcement developments impacting S&P Global’s businesses, advising leadership on emerging risks and strategic implications.
Safeguard S&P Global’s reputation as a trusted, independent market institution.
Provide enterprise leadership on legal and risk governance, setting clear frameworks for issue identification, escalation, and decision-making.
Set the tone for the function, ensuring the right balance between protecting the company and enabling responsible innovation—helping leaders navigate trade-offs with clarity and consistency.
Partner closely with the Chief Risk Officer to ensure alignment across legal, regulatory, operational, technology, and reputational risk within a coherent enterprise model.
Lead governance frameworks for AI, GenAI, and agentic technologies, ensuring responsible innovation, auditability, defensibility, and regulatory readiness.
Define and protect enterprise-wide intellectual property strategy, consistent with S&P Global’s proprietary data, methodologies, benchmarks, and tools.
Balance innovation velocity with strong controls across data privacy, security, model governance, and emerging technology risk.
Oversee complex litigation and investigations globally, setting strategy, managing risk, and coordinating external counsel in high-stakes matters.
Ensure disciplined, enterprise-wide approaches to dispute resolution and risk mitigation.
Modernize Legal and Risk operations to deliver materially greater speed, scale, and effectiveness through simplification, redesign, and AI-enabled ways of working.
Build and lead a world-class global Legal and Risk team defined by high standards, strong judgment, and clear accountability.
Set the leadership tone for disciplined judgment, practical problem-solving, and strong partnership with the business.
Strengthen leadership depth and succession while embedding modern capabilities, automation, and new ways of working across the function.

Requirements

Mandatory prior experience as a General Counsel or Chief Legal Officer in a public company, with direct Board and CEO advisory responsibility.
Deep experience across governance, securities, regulatory, litigation, and commercial matters in a highly regulated, global environment.
Experience in regulated, data-rich, IP-intensive, and technology-enabled businesses (e.g., financial services, data, analytics, marketplaces, infrastructure, platforms), with openness to leaders from other complex, regulated sectors beyond financial services and technology.
Credible senior-level regulatory engagement experience, including direct interaction with enforcement bodies and policymakers.
Demonstrated leadership through enterprise-wide transformation, including operating model evolution, AI/automation adoption, and organizational change.

Skills

Board-level judgment and independence
Regulatory credibility and enforcement readiness
Deep understanding of IP, data, and AI governance
Modern, transformation-oriented operating mindset
Gravitas, foresight, and pragmatism
Balancing innovation with discipline, speed with rigor, and commercial ambition with long-term stewardship
Commercial mindset
Curiosity
Calm authority
Collaboration skills
Capacity to lead complex global teams through change

Location

Work Type

Full-time

Experience Level

Executive

Salary/Compensations

$575,000 to $625,000

Benefits

Eligible for an annual incentive plan
Health & Wellness: Health care coverage designed for the mind and body.
Flexible Downtime: Generous time off helps keep you energized for your time on.
Continuous Learning: Access a wealth of resources to grow your career and learn valuable new skills.
Invest in Your Future: Secure your financial future through competitive pay, retirement planning, a continuing education program with a company-matched student loan contribution, and financial wellness programs.
Family Friendly Perks: Best-in class benefits for families.
Beyond the Basics: From retail discounts to referral incentive awards.

About the Company

S&P Global is a leading provider of transparent and independent ratings, benchmarks, analytics, and data to the capital and commodity markets worldwide.
With more than a century of trust behind its brands, S&P Global plays a foundational role in the global financial system, transforming data into Essential Intelligence® that enables companies, governments, and individuals to make decisions with conviction.
The firm is executing a multi‑year enterprise transformation focused on three strategic pillars: ADVANCE Market Leadership, EXPAND High‑Growth Adjacencies, and AMPLIFY Enterprise Capabilities & AI.
This strategy is reshaping how S&P Global operates—scaling enterprise platforms, accelerating innovation, simplifying operating models, and embedding AI across products, workflows, and internal processes.
S&P Global’s competitive advantage increasingly rests on the strength of its proprietary data, methodologies, benchmarks, and intellectual property, reinforced by robust governance, regulatory credibility, and trust.
Maintaining that trust—while enabling growth and innovation—is central to the company’s long‑term value creation.
Our Mission: Advancing Essential Intelligence.
Our People: We're more than 35,000 strong worldwide—so we're able to understand nuances while having a broad perspective. Our team is driven by curiosity and a shared belief that Essential Intelligence can help build a more prosperous future for us all.
We’re committed to a more equitable future and to helping our customers find new, sustainable ways of doing business.
Our Values: Integrity, Discovery, Partnership
Throughout our history, the world's leading organizations have relied on us for the Essential Intelligence they need to make confident decisions about the road ahead.
We start with a foundation of integrity in all we do, bring a spirit of discovery to our work, and collaborate in close partnership with each other and our customers to achieve shared goals.

Equal Opportunity

S&P Global is an equal opportunity employer and all qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment without regard to race/ethnicity, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, marital status, military veteran status, unemployment status, or any other status protected by law.
Only electronic job submissions will be considered for employment.
If you need an accommodation during the application process due to a disability, please send an email to: EEO.Compliance@spglobal.com and your request will be forwarded to the appropriate person.