JPMorgan Strategic Growth Digital Retail Payments Product Lawyer – Vice President 

United Kingdom, England, London 

768816178

As a Strategic Growth and Digital Retail Payments Product Lawyer you will support the ICB across all areas of two exciting new international business initiatives. In this newly created role, you will provide primary legal support and advise senior stakeholders across all legal issues arising out of these strategic new business initiative and will be a key enabler of its success, helping to establish its foundations, including governance arrangements, negotiating a wide range of strategic transactions and driving progress forwards.

Job responsibilities

• Develop products and advise clients with respect to wholly digital retail products, including all applicable consumer regulations
• Advise on regulatory matters, including regulatory engagement
• Advise business and stakeholders on legal risk in connection with the negotiation of commercial agreements
• Drafting all client documentation, including general terms and conditions, marketing materials, etc. Drafting correspondence to internal and external parties
• Contributing to the oversight of the contents and execution of documents, including communications with respect to complaints, disputes, litigation, etc.
• Liaising with outside counsel, source and coordinate legal advice across legal functions outside of the ICB
• Performing legal research on a variety of issues relating to retail matters across jurisdictions. Providing support to strategic investments and acquisitions from a technology / commercial contracts viewpoint

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Qualified lawyer with at least 5 years PQE spent working in either in-house or in private practice handling a mixed variety of payments, commercial, technology and data related matters
• A demonstrated ability to work on complex legal issues and to function in a high volume / fast-paced environment with multiple and diverse responsibilities, managing a varied and changing caseload
• Experienced with digital retail products and retail regulatory knowledge
• Experience negotiating commercial contracts
• Cross-border experience, especially with respect to retail payments products, including familiarity with global regulatory issues relevant to the use of technology in financial services, including cloud, outsourcing and third-party risk management
• Team player who can collaborate with the Business and operations groups
• Familiarity with cybersecurity, technology controls, information security, data privacy and protection
• Excellent communication, negotiation, analytical and drafting skills, an organised approach with strong attention to detail and the ability to work independently on demanding legal issues and to tight deadlines
• Fluency in English

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Familiarity with other retail laws and regulations, including CCA, CONC, GDPR, etc.
• Litigation experience