General Counsel jobs in United States, Illinois, Chicago

• Bachelor's degree in a technical field or equivalent practical experience.
  
• 8 years of experience in computing infrastructure, networking, operating systems, or hardware.
  
• 5 years of experience managing technical, vendor, contract management, or delivery teams.
  
• Ability to work non-standard hours, including working weekends, night shifts, holidays and on shift-based schedules as required.

• Experience working in data center environments, including building and operating large-scale infrastructure.
• Experience with initiating and executing strategic initiatives in a global environment.
• Experience with Linux/Unix system administration.
• Knowledge of networks and computer hardware architecture, including maintenance and repair.
• Passion for operations and people management.

As a Payments Negotiation Attorney in the Payments Legal Team, you will provide transactional and strategic legal support for client contract negotiations in wholesale payments. You will collaborate with us to enhance negotiation practices and implement technological solutions, creating a best-in-class contracts negotiations legal practice. You will have the opportunity to work with a dynamic team that values inclusivity and career growth. Together, we will safeguard the integrity of the firm while helping our clients succeed.

Key responsibilities

• Draft and negotiate a wide range of documentation for Wholesale Payments.
• Advise businesses on transaction structures, and legal and regulatory issues.
• Coordinate with product counsel and other legal teams to maintain agreement templates, negotiation playbooks, and negotiation technology tools.
• Ensure customer-facing documentation is clear and compliant with applicable laws and regulations.

Required qualifications and skills

• Illinois licensed attorney with at least five (5) years’ experience with a major law firm, financial institution, or judicial clerkship
• Proven and effective negotiation skills and ability to communicate with internal and external customers.
• Understanding of banking laws, including UCC Articles 4 and 4A.
• Excellent organization and time management skills.

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Knowledge of wholesale payments products and services.
• Experience working with merchant service processors/providers.
• Experience with commercial card products.
• Understanding of FinTech and third party payment processors and applicable laws and regulations.
• Familiarity with healthcare payments and HIPAA regulations.

Job responsibilities

• Executes software solutions, design, development, and technical troubleshooting with ability to think beyond routine or conventional approaches to build solutions or break down technical problems
• Provide technical support and consultation to Product Lines and Lines of Business platform users
• Creates and owns secure and high-quality production level code
• Produces architecture and design artifacts for complex applications while being accountable for ensuring design constraints are met by software code development
• Proactively identifies hidden problems and patterns and uses these insights to drive improvements to coding hygiene and system architecture
• Contributes to software engineering communities of practice and events that explore new and emerging technologies
• Adds to team culture of diversity, equity, inclusion, and respect

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 3+ years applied experience
• Experience in Terraform and Infrastructure as Code principles using Terraform on Public Cloud (AWS preferred)
• Experience of developing and testing using automation frameworks
• Proficiency in one or more programming languages (Go, Python, Java)
• Hands-on practical experience in system design, application development, testing, and operational stability
• Overall knowledge of the Software Development Life Cycle
• Solid understanding of agile methodologies such as CI/CD, Application Resiliency, and Security
• Demonstrated knowledge of software applications and technical processes within a technical discipline (e.g., cloud, artificial intelligence, machine learning, mobile, etc.)

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• AWS and Terraform Certified
• Proficient in designing and provisioning applications on AWS Services, Terraform and Sentinel
• Familiarity with modern front-end technologies

As a Payments Negotiation Attorney in the Payments Legal Team, you will provide transactional and strategic legal support for client contract negotiations in wholesale payments. You will collaborate with us to enhance negotiation practices and implement technological solutions, creating a best-in-class contracts negotiations legal practice. You will have the opportunity to work with a dynamic team that values inclusivity and career growth. Together, we will safeguard the integrity of the firm while helping our clients succeed.

Job Responsibilities:

• Draft and negotiate a wide range of documentation for Wholesale Payments.
• Advise businesses on transaction structures and legal and regulatory issues.
• Coordinate with product counsel and other legal teams to maintain agreement templates, negotiation playbooks, and negotiation technology tools.
• Ensure customer-facing documentation is clear and compliant with applicable laws and regulations.

Required Qualifications, Capabilities, and Skills:

• At least three years of experience with a major law firm, financial institution, or judicial clerkship.
• Proven and effective negotiation skills and ability to communicate with internal and external customers.
• Understanding of banking laws, including UCC Articles 4 and 4A.
• Excellent organization and time management skills.

Preferred Qualifications, Capabilities, and Skills:

• Knowledge of wholesale payments products and services.
• Experience working with merchant service processors/providers.
• Experience with commercial card products.
• Understanding of FinTech and third-party payment processors and applicable laws and regulations.
• Familiarity with healthcare payments and HIPAA regulations.

Job responsibilities

• Provide transactional support, including analysis and advice on structural and risk issues
• Review, negotiate and draft credit, lease and collateral documentation, amendments, waivers, indicative term sheets, proposal and commitment letters, intercreditor agreements, assignment/purchase agreements and confidentiality agreements
• Represent JPMCB in relationships with other syndicate lenders and borrowers, including providing advice on workout credits
• Support and maintain outside counsel relationships and coordinate engagement of outside counsel
• Escalate issues as appropriate and share potential concerns, issues, and ideas with legal and control functions across the company
• Support and advise the business with respect to client related issues including KYC, privacy, reputational and AML issues which may arise
• Advise the business with respect to new products or pricing, marketing, regulatory and related issues impacting financial institutions operating in a multi-state environment and provide training to the business
• Partner with Risk, Controls, and Compliance colleagues regarding operational and regulatory risk and control issues and the applicability of federal and state law and regulation to the business

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• JD or educational equivalent required with at least 5 years of post-JD practicing experience at a law firm and/or in-house legal department at a large bank or other financial services company
• Licensed to practice law and a member in good standing in TX, IL or other approved location, as applicable, or otherwise in compliance with the in-house counsel registration rules in such state
• Strong interpersonal skills with ability to interact effectively with clients and partner with other members of the Legal Department and the business to find solutions
• The ability to prioritize work, manage a large number of issues at one time, and interact with senior and executive management
• Excellent verbal and written communications skills
• All candidates for roles in the Legal Department must successfully complete a conflicts of interest clearance review prior to commencement of employment

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Experience collaborating on a broad range of business strategies and issues with senior management and a reputation for providing valued, and independent counsel and judgment
• Knowledge of the legal and regulatory requirements for Commercial and Investment Banking businesses with a focus on secured lending (including equipment finance)
• Demonstrated leadership, problem solving and project management skills, judgment and character

• JD, LL.B., equivalent degree, or equivalent practical experience.
• 10 years of experience in tax.
• Admitted to the bar and in good standing or otherwise authorized to practice law (e.g., have registered in-house status) in the state in which the position is located.

• 7 years of experience in international tax, with a law firm, accounting firm, or in-house tax department.
• Excellent research and project management skills and experience, and ability to develop creative and practical solutions to ambiguous problems with limited legal precedent.
• Solid understanding of and experience with the taxation of cross border transactions and sales, including familiarity with CFC regimes and FDII.
• Ability to use automation technologies to make data-driven planning decisions more efficiently.
• Excellent communication skills to interact with all levels of the Finance organization.

• JD, LL.B., equivalent degree, or equivalent practical experience.
• Admitted to the bar and in good standing or otherwise authorized to practice law (e.g., have registered in-house status) in the state in which the position is located.
• 3 years of attorney-level experience in government, in-house, or at a law firm.
• Experience advising engineering and product teams on legal and regulatory issues.

• Experience working in product counseling for complex and regulated products available globally.
• Familiarity with global privacy regimes.
• Excellent investigative, problem-solving, and communication skills, with the ability to explain complex legal issues clearly and concisely to non-legal stakeholders.
• Excellent organizational skills and the ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously in a changing environment.