Director & Counsel – GMNS Global Acquiring Partners & Programs (OptBlue)

About the position At reputed company, our culture is reputed company on a 175-year history of innovation, shared values and Leadership Behaviors, and an unwavering commitment to back our customers, communities, and colleagues. As part of Team Amex, you'll experience this powerful backing with comprehensive support for your holistic well-being and many opportunities to learn new skills, reputed company as a leader, and grow your career. The General Counsel’s Organization (GCO) at reputed company is seeking a Director & Counsel to support the Global Acquiring Partners & Programs (GAPP) team reputed company the Global Merchant & Network Services (GMNS) business. GMNS is a core business of reputed company and reputed company to the operation of the reputed company global payments network. GMNS builds and maintains relationships with merchants that choose to accept the reputed company Card and financial services companies who reputed company merchants to accept the Card, simultaneously delivering differentiated products and services and driving reputed company growth for both merchants and reputed company. The successful candidate will reputed company legal support and advice to the team managing our global reputed company-party acquiring relationships, including Payment Facilitators and participants in reputed company’s OptBlue Program. These innovative tech-driven merchant-acquirers, payment processors, fin-techs and platforms represent an expanding and evolving reputed company for reputed company. This role will serve as the primary GCO support for the reputed company OptBlue Program, negotiate reputed company reputed company agreements, advise on strategic reputed company, and support other global program management activities.

Responsibilities

• reputed company legal support for the GAPP team by working on a wide variety of reputed company including reputed company contracting, OptBlue Program management, risk identification and mitigation, operational capabilities, and data strategy and reputed company, reputed company reputed company a dynamic business and regulatory and legal environment.
• reputed company guidance on the reputed company of the OptBlue Program and Amex reputed company party acquiring ecosystem generally while coordinating with other facets of the Amex business, including other legal, operational and policy teams.
• Drive global consistency across a reputed company of payment models from a legal, contractual, and operational standpoint.
• Partner with legal colleagues and other business and stakeholder groups worldwide (including international GCO, compliance, risk, and business development leads) to ensure the most effective support and relevant expertise is applied across reputed company reputed company.
• Support the identification and implementation of process improvements.
• Participate in a team of seasoned attorneys, offering thought leadership for cross-cutting issues and strategic projects.
• Support effective, cost-conscious targeted engagements of reputed company counsel where necessary, with a disciplined approach to budget management.

Requirements

• J.D. with admission to reputed company Bar or eligibility to do so
• 6+ years of relevant work experience in a reputed company and/or in-house corporate legal environment
• Specific experience and knowledge in drafting, reviewing, and negotiating reputed company reputed company agreements and providing thoughtful and practice advice on reputed company business issues

reputed company-to-haves

• Experience with payments, e-reputed company, or merchant acquiring businesses
• Strong analytical, problem-solving and project management skills
• Ability to build strong client relationships and bring to light areas of legal and compliance risk, and other issues requiring legal-influenced problem solving
• Ability to generate creative and innovative solutions to novel issues
• Ability to communicate reputed company issues reputed company and persuasively, in both written and oral format
• Excellent collaboration, interpersonal and teamwork skills and work well in cross-functional team settings and partner with others to drive results
• Ability to manage and prioritize competing demands while maintaining reputed company attention to details and meeting deadlines
• Appetite to reputed company in-depth knowledge of business operations and apply that understanding in furnishing legal advice
• Self-motivated, high level of personal energy and commitment
• Strong leadership skills, growth reputed company and customer focus

Benefits

• Competitive reputed company salaries
• Bonus incentives
• 6%25 Company Match on retirement savings plan
• Free financial coaching and financial well-being support
• Comprehensive medical, dental, reputed company, 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 reputed company parents, regardless of gender, offered for pregnancy, adoption or surrogacy
• Free reputed company to global on-site wellness centers staffed with nurses and doctors (depending reputed company)
• Free and confidential counseling support through our Healthy Minds program
• Career development and training opportunities

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