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At American Express, our culture is built on a 175-year history of innovation, shared values and Leadership Behaviors, and an unwavering commitment to back our customers, communities, and colleagues. As part of Team Amex, you'll experience this powerful backing with comprehensive support for your holistic well-being and many opportunities to learn new skills, develop as a leader, and grow your career.

Here, your voice and ideas matter, your work makes an impact, and together, you will help us define the future of American Express.

How will you make an impact in this role?

As a member of the General Counsel’s Organization, you will lead negotiations and provide ongoing legal support for mission-critical outsourced technology and financial services providers that power our digital banking and payments experiences. You will work closely with internal lawyers, as well as technology, product, procurement, risk, and compliance teams, to structure clear, resilient agreements and support day-to-day supplier governance, including in the context of incidents and issues.

Core Responsibilities:

• Structuring, drafting and negotiating complex outsourcing, technology and commercial agreements for core platforms and services (e.g., digital banking, account processing, money movement, and cloud/SaaS), including providing thought-leadership and strategic oversight to initiatives involving multiple related transactions.

• Assembling and leading cross-functional legal teams to coordinate across related transactions, ensure robust knowledge sharing, align strategies, and report to leadership.

• Partnering with technology and product teams as well as other internal lawyers during service incidents, coordinating contractual notices, supporting root-cause analyses and remediation plans, and pursuing contractual remedies where appropriate.

• Collaborating with procurement and third-party risk teams on due diligence, ongoing monitoring, control gap remediation, and termination/transition activities.

• Developing templates, fallback positions, and negotiation playbooks.

• Tracking industry, legal and market developments.

• Supporting governance, compliance and risk management teams and practices.

Minimum Qualifications:

• J.D. with admission to practice law in the United States.

• 5 years of experience involving outsourcing and technology transactions in a law firm and/or in-house corporate legal environment.

• Expertise in outsourcing, SaaS/cloud, service levels and remedies, and operationalizing large-scale commercial agreements.

• Financial services regulatory and domain expertise.

• Strong communication skills with the ability to translate technical and regulatory concepts into plain English and actionable guidance for non-lawyers.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience working at or with technology and financial services companies.

• Experience in an “outsourcing,” “technology transactions,” “IP transactions” or equivalent practice group.

• Hands-on operational incident experience and comfort briefing senior leaders during issues.

• Familiarity with payments and banking regulations (debit and deposit experience a plus).

The successful candidate will be:

• Highly collaborative, with excellent interpersonal and teamwork skills.

• A clear and confident communicator.

• Able to set direction and build consensus in the face of ambiguity.

• A strategic problem solver with strong business understanding, analytical skills, and a pragmatic approach.

• Passionate and curious about new technologies and the legal issues they raise.

• Proactive, open to new ideas, and committed to continuous learning.

• Guided by unwavering integrity and strong judgment aligned with American Express values.

Qualifications

Salary Range: $170,000.00 to $255,000.00 annually bonus equity (if applicable) benefits

The above represents the expected salary range for this job requisition. Ultimately, in determining your pay, we’ll consider your location, experience, and other job-related factors.

We back you with benefits that support your holistic well-being so you can be and deliver your best. This means caring for you and your loved ones' physical, financial, and mental health, as well as providing the flexibility you need to thrive personally and professionally:

• Competitive base salaries

• Bonus incentives

• 6% Company Match on retirement savings plan

• Free financial coaching and financial well-being support

• Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, life insurance, and disability benefits

• Flexible working model with hybrid, onsite or virtual arrangements depending on role and business need

• 20 weeks paid parental leave for all parents, regardless of gender, offered for pregnancy, adoption or surrogacy

• Free access to global on-site wellness centers staffed with nurses and doctors (depending on location)

• Free and confidential counseling support through our Healthy Minds program

• Career development and training opportunities

For a full list of Team Amex benefits, visit our Colleague Benefits Site .

American Express is an equal opportunity employer and makes employment decisions without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran status, disability status, age, or any other status protected by law. American Express will consider for employment all qualified applicants, including those with arrest or conviction records, in accordance with the requirements of applicable state and local laws, including, but not limited to, the California Fair Chance Act, the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers, and the City of Los Angeles’ Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance. For positions covered by federal and/or state banking regulations, American Express will comply with such regulations as it relates to the consideration of applicants with criminal convictions.

We back our colleagues with the support they need to thrive, professionally and personally. That's why we have Amex Flex, our enterprise working model that provides greater flexibility to colleagues while ensuring we preserve the important aspects of our unique in-person culture. Depending on role and business needs, colleagues will either work onsite, in a hybrid model (combination of in-office and virtual days) or fully virtually.

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Employment eligibility to work with American Express in the United States is required as the company will not pursue visa sponsorship for these positions.

Job: Legal

Primary Location: US-New York-New York

Schedule Full-time

Req ID: 25015438