Manager & Counsel

Description

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At American Express, you'll be recognized for your contributions, leadership, and impact-every colleague has the opportunity to share in the company's success. Together, we'll win as a team, striving to uphold our company values and powerful backing promise to provide the world's best customer experience every day. And we'll do it with the utmost integrity, and in an environment where everyone is seen, heard and feels like they belong.

Join Team Amex and let's lead the way together.

Manager & Counsel - Amex Strategic Partnerships and Digital Labs

Where great legal minds influence business strategy.

Our mission is to protect and strengthen American Express through legal expertise and strategic advice that helps our business partners manage risk, identify opportunities, and deliver on the company's promise of exceptional products and services. Given the dynamic nature of global payments industry and the valued partnership between our team and the business, we see it as imperative to attract and develop talented people by:

• Providing rich work experiences and opportunities for professional development

• Recognizing and rewarding those who drive and deliver results

• Respecting and valuing diversity, integrity, and personal accountability

Role & Responsibilities:

The Digital, Strategic Partnerships & Legal Risk Management team is seeking a Manager & Counsel attorney to provide legal and strategic counsel to (i) Strategic Partnerships, a team that manages many of American Express' most strategic enterprise relationships and (ii) Amex Digital Labs, a team that is focused on developing innovative digital products and services across different platforms. This is a role that requires intensive partnership with business colleagues and other stakeholders.

Help propel your team and its business partners to success.

Here's just some of what you'll do in this role:

• Provide legal and strategic support to business teams in the negotiating, drafting, and ongoing support of partnership and other agreements, working in close collaboration with legal and business colleagues

• Support the exploration and evaluation of potential partnership integrations and pilots,

• Partner closely with business colleagues to understand their concerns and challenges, and use your creativity and practical problem solving to quickly action solutions

• Provide guidance on a broad range of legal, strategic and policy matters, as well as relationship management and operational process questions, all within a dynamic business and regulatory environment

• Engage in ongoing cross-functional collaboration to address privacy, consumer protection, compliance, bank regulatory, intellectual property, data security, data strategy and other issues

• Generate buy-in and develop strategic partnerships across various business unit teams and control groups through relationship-building and effective communication

Are you ready for the challenge?

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree & J.D.

• Admitted to New York Bar or eligibility to do so

• 3 years of relevant legal experience

• Experience drafting, negotiating and reviewing commercial agreements

• Experience advising on new product development

Preferred qualifications:

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills

• Experience with (or strong interest in) digital ecosystems, data and technologies

• Ability to generate creative and innovative solutions to client issues

• Ability to communicate complex issues clearly and persuasively, in both written and oral format

• Ability to build relationships and partner with others to drive results

• Capacity to be agile and pivot appropriately when presented with new information or evolving circumstances

• Experience in FinTech, payments and banking or the wider financial services space.

• Familiarity with one or more of the following topics: mobile payments, electronic payments, remittances, web 3.0, tokenization, or other innovate products enabled by new technologies.

Qualifications

Salary Range: $110,000.00 to $190,000.00 annually bonus benefits

The above represents the expected salary range for this job requisition. Ultimately, in determining your pay, we'll consider your location, experience, and other job-related factors.

Employment eligibility to work with American Express in the U.S. is required as the company will not pursue visa sponsorship for this position.

We back our colleagues and their loved ones with benefits and programs that support their holistic well-being. That means we prioritize their physical, financial, and mental health through each stage of life. Benefits include:

• Competitive base salaries

• Bonus incentives

• 6% Company Match on retirement savings plan

• Free financial coaching and financial well-being support

• Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, life insurance, and disability benefits

• Flexible working model with hybrid, onsite or virtual arrangements depending on role and business need

• 20 weeks paid parental leave for all parents, regardless of gender, offered for pregnancy, adoption or surrogacy

• Free access to global on-site wellness centers staffed with nurses and doctors (depending on location)

• Free and confidential counseling support through our Healthy Minds program

• Career development and training opportunities

For a full list of Team Amex benefits, visit our Colleague Benefits Site .

American Express is an equal opportunity employer and makes employment decisions without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran status, disability status, age, or any other status protected by law.

We back our colleagues with the support they need to thrive, professionally and personally. That's why we have Amex Flex, our enterprise working model that provides greater flexibility to colleagues while ensuring we preserve the important aspects of our unique in-person culture. Depending on role and business needs, colleagues will either work onsite, in a hybrid model (combination of in-office and virtual days) or fully virtually.

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Job: Legal

Primary Location: US-New York-New York

Other Locations: US-New York

Schedule Full-time

Req ID: 24006013