Sr. Associate Counsel

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Visa is a world leader in payments technology, facilitating transactions between consumers, merchants, financial institutions and government entities across more than 200 countries and territories, dedicated to uplifting everyone, everywhere by being the best way to pay and be paid.

At Visa, you'll have the opportunity to create impact at scale — tackling meaningful challenges, growing your skills and seeing your contributions impact lives around the world.

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Job Description

The Senior Associate Counsel role sits within a supportive, hard-working and fun Europe and International GPO Legal Team which forms part of Visa’s Global Privacy Office. In this role, you will be a lawyer providing pro-active legal advice, ensuring compliance with privacy, data, AI and cyber laws and regulations. Your remit will be varied, working on a full range of privacy issues including supporting on data privacy agreements, privacy risk assessments, data subject rights requests, marketing initiatives and product launches.

This role can be based in London or Warsaw.

The Senior Associate Counsel will be responsible for the delivery of efficient, effective and high-quality legal support to the business on privacy, data, AI and cyber matters.

The core competencies for the role are:

• Strategic Partner & Client Focus
• Expertise & Business Knowledge
• Leadership
• Communication
• Intellectual Curiosity and Judgement

What we expect from you will differ according to your role and where you are in your career, but we look for people who have the ability and aptitude to succeed against these key competencies.

Visa requires at least 3 days in office, expectations of these days will be confirmed by your Hiring Manager.

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications:

5 or more years of relevant work experience with a Bachelor's Degree or at least 2 years of work experience with an Advanced degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD) or 0 years of work experience with a PhD

Preferred Qualifications

Qualified lawyer in England and Wales or Poland with several years of PQE experience. We will consider candidates who have qualified in other jurisdictions.

Previous substantial and demonstrable privacy subject-matter expert experience.

Strong academics and training including legal drafting and negotiating, and relationship management.

Excellent written and oral communication skills along with a demonstrated ability to collaborate with internal and external stakeholders.

Demonstrable analytical capabilities and attention to detail.

Ability to work in a team environment as well as on own initiative.

Ability to prioritise and manage a varied and busy workload.

Positive attitude, high level of integrity and intellectual curiosity with a passion for novel and complex privacy, data, cyber and AI issues.

Fluent in English.

Visa is an EEO Employer

Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability or protected veteran status. Visa will also consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with EEOC guidelines and applicable local law.

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About Us

At Visa, we are driven by a common purpose – to uplift everyone, everywhere by being the best way to pay and be paid. Our evolving technology keeps us at the heart of the digital economy, connecting people to 80+ million businesses worldwide. Backed by a resilient, proven model, our expanding network fuels growth—for Visa and for your career.

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