Senior Counsel, Privacy - Blockchain & Digital Assets

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, Privacy - Blockchain & Digital Assets Who is Mastercard? Mastercard is a global technology company in the payments industry. Our mission is to connect and power an inclusive, digital economy that benefits everyone, everywhere by making transactions safe, simple, smart, and accessible. Using secure data and networks, partnerships and passion, our innovations and solutions help individuals, financial institutions, governments, and businesses realize their greatest potential. Our decency quotient, or DQ, drives our culture and everything we do inside and outside of our company. With connections across more than 210 countries and territories, we are building a sustainable world that unlocks priceless possibilities for all.

Mastercard is looking for an experienced privacy lawyer to support its evolving digital assets ecosystem from a privacy and data protection standpoint, including the integration and ongoing operation of BVNK and initiatives involving digital assets, blockchain, crypto payments, stablecoins, fraud, cross-border payments, embedded finance, and other emerging payment solutions. This role will partner closely with teams across Mastercard and BVNK, including Product, Compliance, Regulatory, Security, and Legal stakeholders, to help enable compliant product development, integration readiness, and ongoing business support. The ideal candidate will have the ability to think and act both strategically and tactically with respect to the needs of tech-focused business clients and their objectives while ensuring that the corporation remains compliant with privacy, cyber, and data-related laws and regulations. The candidate should be practical, intellectually curious, and comfortable providing hands-on privacy advice in a rapidly evolving technology and regulatory environment. This full-time role is based in Purchase, New York. The position will report to the Senior Managing Counsel and will be a member of the Law Department, supporting the Blockchain & Digital Assets team under Mastercard’s Core Payments business. Role • Analyze payment, digital asset, blockchain, stablecoin, fraud, and related technology solutions in light of privacy and data protection requirements with the aim of identifying the relevant process and infrastructure requirements to ensure compliance with applicable privacy and data protection laws globally, including applicable U.S. privacy, financial privacy, and data security requirements. • Provide day-to-day support to business teams supporting digital assets, crypto payments, stablecoins, fraud, cross-border payments, and other emerging payment initiatives, and perform privacy and data protection law assessments in line with Mastercard’s privacy and data protection policies and processes. • Support the integration and ongoing operation of BVNK and related acquired or strategic businesses, including by helping identify and address privacy compliance needs, control requirements, and remediation activities. • Support the development and implementation of U.S. privacy compliance measures, including requirements related to GLBA and the DOJ Data Security Program. • Increase awareness among business clients, global privacy and legal teams regarding privacy and cyber security pertaining to payment, digital asset, blockchain, stablecoin, fraud, and related technology solutions through training and other initiatives. • Monitor regulatory and