Strategic Growth & International Consumer Platform, Marketing & Data Lawyer – Vice President
JPMorgan Chase
- London
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Manage a team of lawyers responsible both for product development and transactional negotiations
- Perform a leadership role across the team mentoring, inspiring and supporting team-members growth
- Structure, draft and negotiate agreements and relationships with vendors, partners, customers and other third parties related to technology, including but not limited to partnerships, Joint Ventures, reseller agreements, SaaS agreements, platform agreements, connectivity, API, and cloud services contracts
- Advise business and stakeholders on legal risk in connection with the development of new products and services, helping to guide innovation across a range of client bases and products, in particular on legal risk arising from digitalisation, data, new technologies and consumer protection. This will include attendance in committees and forums where decisions related to the products and projects will be approved
- Provide timely and pragmatic general corporate, transactional and commercial legal support relevant to a new venture
- Source and coordinate legal advice across legal functions outside of the ICB
- Support strategic investments and acquisitions arising out of the initiative
- Engage and instruct outside counsel when appropriate
- Provide support on other special projects
- Perform legal research across a variety of issues, laws and jurisdictions
- UK qualified lawyer with extensive line of business and transactional experience drafting and negotiating a broad range of commercial agreements, both supplier and customer facing, including complex global technology agreements, e.g., partnerships, reseller, software licensing/support, SaaS, PaaS, outsourcing, data and cloud agreements
- Experience in-house with a financial institution, large technology organisation or FinTech preferred
- Previous experience as a manager is desirable
- Familiarity with global regulatory issues relevant to the use of technology in financial services, including cloud, outsourcing and third-party risk management
- Familiarity with cybersecurity, technology controls, information security, data privacy and protection
- Strong analytical, problem-solving and legal research skills
- Global mindset and cross-border experience (especially UK, EU and US)
- Proven ability to independently identify issues, analyse problems and provide viable solutions
- Excellent verbal, written, interpersonal, organizational and negotiation skills
- Ability to communicate and interact effectively with all levels of personnel and management, including c-suite senior executives
- Ability to work under accurately under pressure, handle deadlines, and manage multiple tasks in a high performance environment