Senior Associate Counsel, Global Privacy Office

Company Description

Visa is a world leader in payments and technology, with over 259 billion payments transactions flowing safely between consumers, merchants, financial institutions, and government entities in 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 while driven by a common purpose – to uplift everyone, everywhere by being the best way to pay and be paid.

Make an impact with a purpose-driven industry leader. Join us today and experience Life at Visa.

Job Description

About the Global Privacy Office

As a member of the Visa Global Privacy Office (GPO), you will not only play a critical role as a privacy professional helping drive our global privacy program forward, but you will get exposure to, and have an opportunity to become an expert on, a diverse range of cutting edge topics. In addition to leading the Visa global privacy program, our team supports a wide array of global, regional, and local initiatives on data governance, cybersecurity, records and information management, AI and machine learning, banking secrecy and cross border data movement. If you have a curiosity for learning and a drive to enable business with a privacy by design mindset, we encourage you to apply for a role with the GPO.

Job Description
The Senior Associate Counsel role sits within a supportive, hard-working and fun Europe and International GPO Legal Team which forms part of Visa’s Global Privacy Office. In this role, you will be a lawyer providing pro-active legal advice, ensuring compliance with privacy, data, AI and cyber laws and regulations. Your remit will be varied, working on a full range of privacy issues including supporting on data privacy agreements, privacy risk assessments, data subject rights requests, marketing initiatives and product launches.

This role can be based in Madrid or London.

The Senior Associate Counsel will be responsible for the delivery of efficient, effective and high-quality legal support to the business on privacy, data, AI and cyber matters.

The core competencies for the role are:

1. Strategic Partner & Client Focus
2. Expertise & Business Knowledge
3. Leadership
4. Communication
5. Intellectual Curiosity and Judgement

What we expect from you will differ according to your role and where you are in your career, but we look for people who have the ability and aptitude to succeed against these key competencies.

Key Responsibilities

• Act as a subject-matter expert on privacy topics.
• Provide legal advice on European privacy, data protection, cyber, banking secrecy and AI laws including GDPR.
• Provide legal guidance on privacy impact assessments.
• Assist with data subject rights requests.
• Support on marketing, sponsorship and loyalty initiatives.
• Stay updated on emerging privacy, cyber and AI laws and trends.
• Build relationships with key business partners, working closely with them to meet their business needs in terms of privacy legal support in an efficient way.
• Assist in the development of privacy policies, procedures, and training programs.
• Draft and negotiate privacy-related contracts and agreements.
• Actively look for opportunities to streamline and improve the delivery of privacy legal support, regulatory change management and knowledge sharing.
• Play an active part in contributing to the development of the Global Privacy Program.
• Issue spot and identify privacy, data, AI and cyber issues and liaise when necessary, with internal members of the broader Legal, Ethics and Compliance Division and/or external counsel.

Qualifications

Essential Skills:

• Qualified lawyer in England and Wales or Spain with several years of PQE experience.  We will consider candidates who have qualified in other jurisdictions.
• Previous substantial and demonstrable privacy subject-matter expert experience.
• Strong academics and training including legal drafting and negotiating, and relationship management.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills along with a demonstrated ability to collaborate with internal and external stakeholders.
• Demonstrable analytical capabilities and attention to detail.
• Ability to work in a team environment as well as on own initiative.
• Ability to prioritise and manage a varied and busy workload.
• Positive attitude, high level of integrity and intellectual curiosity with a passion for novel and complex privacy, data, cyber and AI issues.
• Fluent in English.

Desirable Skills:

• In-house experience (secondment or permanent role).
• Previous experience of working within a technology and digital legal environment.

• Knowledge of fintech and payments industry (and applicable regulation).
• Previous experience of cross-border and multi-jurisdictional privacy issues.
• Additional European language.
• One or more CIPP qualifications.

Additional Information

Visa is an EEO Employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability or protected veteran status. Visa will also consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with EEOC guidelines and applicable local law.