Associate Counsel, Legal, Insa

Company Description

Visa is a world leader in digital payments, facilitating more than 215 billion payments transactions between consumers, merchants, financial institutions and government entities across 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.

When you join Visa, you join a culture of purpose and belonging - where your growth is priority, your identity is embraced, and the work you do matters. We believe that economies that include everyone everywhere, uplift everyone everywhere. Your work will have a direct impact on billions of people around the world - helping unlock financial access to enable the future of money movement.

**Join Visa: A Network Working for Everyone.**

**Job Description**:
**Team Summary**

The Visa Asia Pacific Legal team manages Visa s legal affairs in the Asia Pacific region. Our team provides advice and services to ensure business goals are successfully met and that Visa s brand and reputation are protected while minimizing legal liability and regulatory risk. Our vision entails each legal professional living the guiding principles to be a proactive partner who never loses sight of his/her responsibility to protect the company.

**What an Associate Counsel in Legal does at Visa**:
The position is for a junior business/commercial lawyer to join Visa s growing legal team that supports Visa s businesses responsible for our India and South Asia markets including in the areas of sales contracts, corporate matters, products, marketing agreements and routine legal business and contracts enquires. The position will report to the Senior Managing Counsel, India and South Asia. The applicant should ideally have knowledge of commercial business law and management and be able to draft robustly and to a high standard. The applicant must have solid technical legal skills with good commercial/legal risk judgment and be able to juggle multiple priorities in a fast paced and challenging, but rewarding, environment.

We are looking for a strong legal advisor and commercial lawyer rolled into one with excellent communication and analytical skills, who is self-motivated and willing to work reasonably hard. Prior payments experience is not required, although the applicant must be willing to learn Visa s business model and the payments industry.

In this role, you are expected to:

- Work closely with business teams to review and advise on commercial and contractual enhancements and/or new business initiatives, as well as day to day commercial related matters
- Be an effective representative/ stakeholder for the AP Legal team in the global legal office and Country management, and liaise with/cooperate with other members of the global and regional Visa legal team
- Independently draft, negotiate and drive to completion complex commercial, technology, and strategic partnership agreements that achieve business objectives
- Provide counseling and advice to business and technology teams regarding deal structures and common approaches to addressing issues
- Assist in regulatory and government engagements/consultations on payment regulations across the India and South Asia region and be an effective strategic advisor to the business and government engagement teams
- Some travel may be required

**Why this is important to Visa**

The Associate Counsel provides legal advice, counsel and support to Visa s business operations in the Asia Pacific region and serves as a trusted and respected advisor to senior management and a variety of business units. The Associate Counsel has responsibility for enabling Visa s business and protecting Visa, through drafting agreements, assisting with negotiations, and advising on diverse areas of law for strategic partnerships, commercial transactions, technology and intellectual property-related matters as well as daily operations of the business.

**Projects you will be a part of**:
You will be a member of a regional legal team that 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 in the commercial/technology law space.

This is a hybrid position. Hybrid employees can alternate time between both remote and office. Employees in hybrid roles are expected to work from the office two days a week, Tuesdays and Wednesdays with a general guidepost of being in the office 50% of the time based on business needs.

**Qualifications**:
Basic Qualifications:

- 4 or more years of relevant experience.
- Juris Doctorate degree from an accredited law school.
- Current member in good standing of a State Bar with the ability to become barred or a registered in-house counsel in the state where this role is located.
- Minimum 4 or more years legal experience, some of which must be at a top tier