Senior Associate Counsel

About the role

Visa is a world leader in payments technology, facilitating transactions between consumers, merchants, financial institutions and government entities across more than 200 countries and territories, dedicated to uplifting everyone, everywhere by being the best way to pay and be paid. At Visa, you'll have the opportunity to create impact at scale - tackling meaningful challenges, growing your skills and seeing your contributions impact lives around the world. Join Visa and do work that matters - to you, to your community, and to the world. Progress starts with you. Job Description Visa is seeking a proactive product and commercial lawyer to join as Senior Associate Counsel supporting Visa's Commercial & Money Move Solutions organization (CMS). This role is on Visa's growing and dynamic Commercial & Money Movement Solutions (CMS) Commercial Legal Team. The CMS Commercial Legal Team works at the cutting edge of new payment technologies, innovation and the fintech industry in an increasingly regulated environment, which brings unique and novel challenges and opportunities every day. Applicants must be skilled at managing multiple priorities in a fast-paced and challenging, but highly rewarding, environment, have good judgment and strong analytical, organizational, client counseling, and negotiation skills, be self-motivated, and be an optimistic, curious, and collaborative team player. What we expect of you day to day Serve as a lead commercial lawyer for Visa's North America CMS business, providing practical, risk-based legal advice on the drafting, review, negotiation, and interpretation of a wide range of customer, partner, vendor, and strategic commercial agreements. Draft, review, and negotiate complex agreements, including framework agreements, program terms, pilots, statements of work, amendments, and related forms, with a focus on clear, scalable, and commercially workable contract language. Partner closely with business, sales, product, compliance, privacy, and regional legal teams to structure transactions, resolve contractual issues, and support business objectives while appropriately managing legal and regulatory risk. Advise stakeholders on key commercial contract provisions, including scope, liability allocation, indemnities, data use, intellectual property, and other core risk areas. Support contract strategy and negotiations by identifying issues early, proposing pragmatic solutions, and helping drive alignment across internal stakeholders and counterparties. Develop, refine, and maintain templates, playbooks, fallback positions, and guidance materials to improve consistency, efficiency, and quality in commercial contracting. Provide training and day-to-day counseling to business teams on contracting processes, negotiation approaches, and recurring legal issues relevant to commercial transactions. Manage regulatory support and assess how changes in the legal or regulatory landscape may affect contract positions, deal structures, and business operations. Work collaboratively with colleagues across regions and functions, and engage outside counsel where appropriate, to support cross-border matters and specialized legal issues. Contribute proactively to the Legal and Compliance Department's broader objectives by promoting consistency in contracting positions, sharing know-how, and supporting continuous improvement of legal processes. This is a hybrid position. Expectation of days in the office will be confirmed by your Hiring Manager.