Counsel – Privacy & Data Protection

Mastercard’s global Commercial and New Payment Flows (CNPF) Privacy team is seeking a Privacy Counsel to support its money transfer solutions. These products enable fast, secure, and seamless domestic and cross border payments, helping individuals and businesses move funds efficiently across a wide range of use cases. The role provides hands on legal support to CNPF products and services, advising on privacy, AI, and data protection across the full product lifecycle. This includes contributing to the design and launch of new payment solutions, analysing data flows, tracking regulatory developments, and negotiating data protection terms in commercial agreements. The Counsel will help ensure that solutions align with global privacy, AI, and data governance requirements. The successful candidate will operate comfortably at both strategic and operational levels, offering clear, practical advice that supports innovation while managing risk. A strong understanding of digital payments, financial services technologies, and data driven systems is essential, along with experience embedding Privacy by Design into products and processes. Working closely with product, engineering, and business teams, the Counsel will play a key role in enabling innovation in domestic and cross border payments while maintaining a robust and scalable privacy framework. This position is based in London and reports to the Senior Managing Counsel, Privacy, AI & Data Responsibility, in Belgium.