Mastercard Hiring for Counsel – Privacy & Data Protection at Pune, India Full Time

Our Purpose

We work to connect and power an inclusive, digital economy that benefits everyone, everywhere by making transactions safe, simple, smart and accessible. Using secure data and networks, partnerships and passion, our innovations and solutions help individuals, financial institutions, governments and businesses realize their greatest potential. Our decency quotient, or DQ, drives our culture and everything we do inside and outside of our company. We cultivate a culture of inclusion (https://www.mastercard.us/en-us/vision/who-we-are/diversity-inclusion.html) for all employees that respects their individual strengths, views, and experiences. We believe that our differences enable us to be a better team – one that makes better decisions, drives innovation and delivers better business results.

Title and Summary

Counsel – Privacy & Data Protection

Counsel – Privacy & Data Protection

Our Purpose

• We work to connect and power an inclusive, digital economy that benefits everyone, everywhere by making transactions safe, simple, smart and accessible. Using secure data and networks, partnerships and passion, our innovations and solutions help individuals, financial institutions, governments and businesses realize their greatest potential.

• Mastercard is committed to balancing innovation while ensuring legal compliance and has embraced privacy and data protection as core to the successful execution of its business strategy. As part of that commitment Mastercard has established a world-class privacy program and is currently adding talent to its global team.

Job overview

• The position will report to the Senior Counsel, Privacy & Data Protection and will be a member of the Global Privacy & Data Protection team.

• The Counsel will take part in the development of cutting-edge technologies from a privacy and data protection standpoint, monitoring new legislative developments and ensuring compliance of Mastercard products with existing and emerging privacy and data-related laws.

• The ideal candidate will have the ability to think and act both strategically and tactically with respect to the needs of business clients and their objectives while ensuring that the corporation remains compliant with privacy and data-related laws and regulations.

• The Counsel must be abreast of new technologies related to payments and digital technologies.

Core Responsibilities

• Negotiate contracts with customers, partners, and vendors to ensure compliance with privacy and data protection laws.

• Supporting Legal and Regulatory teams on local market legal scans.

• Respond to government data requests.

• Support strategic improvement actions.

• Monitor regulatory and legislative developments pertaining to privacy and data protection.

• Provide day-to-day support to privacy and business teams and perform privacy assessments in line with Mastercard’s privacy and data protection policies and processes.

• Increase awareness among business clients, global privacy and legal teams regarding privacy through training and other initiatives.

All About You

• Legal qualification (solicitor, barrister, attorney).

• Any additional privacy qualifications (e.g. CIPP) considered an asset.

• Solid expertise in and track record dealing with privacy and data protection laws.

• Ideal candidate will have solid experience in financial services (or related background).

• Solid knowledge of global data protection legal frameworks (e.g. GDPR, CCPA).

• Superior time management, planning, and organizational skills.

• Strong analytic capabilities, and written and oral communication skills.

• Attention to detail is a must.

• Exceptional interpersonal skills with proven experience in relationship building and partnering. Must work well in both team and individual settings.

Corporate Security Responsibility

All activities involving access to Mastercard assets, information, and networks comes with an inherent risk to the organization and, therefore, it is expected that every person working for, or on behalf of, Mastercard is responsible for information security and must:

• Abide by Mastercard’s security policies and practices;

• Ensure the confidentiality and integrity of the information being accessed;

• Report any suspected information security violation or breach, and

• Complete all periodic mandatory security trainings in accordance with Mastercard’s guidelines.