Top Counsel Jobs in Chicago, IL

Lead the Co-Brand Card & Networks Legal team advising on cobranded credit card, payment network, benefits, marketing and digital integration agreements. Manage and mentor transactional attorneys, negotiate complex deals, provide early-stage strategic legal guidance, coordinate with cross-functional stakeholders, and oversee external counsel to deliver pragmatic, commercial legal support for consumer and small business banking partnerships.

Provide legal counsel on data, analytics, and AI products for Payments and Commercial/Investment Bank clients. Negotiate client agreements, advise on regulatory and market developments, collaborate with Legal, Risk, and Compliance, and support product launches and market expansion while ensuring compliance and managing multi-jurisdictional legal matters.

Lead regulatory strategy and compliance for Mastercard's global money transmission/payment licenses. Advise product and operations teams, manage regulatory examinations and external counsel, design compliance controls, monitor regulatory changes, engage with regulators, and report to senior management.

Provide expert legal advice on financial crimes and digital asset matters, including AML, KYC/CDD, and anti-corruption. Advise on product design, controls, investigations, transactions, and regulatory developments; support policy, governance, and cross-functional implementation.

Provide employment law advice and litigation management across jurisdictions, oversee investigations and outside counsel, draft and update HR policies, handle wage/hour and accommodation issues, leverage eDiscovery and legal technology, and collaborate with HR on workforce projects.

Provide legal counsel to the Digital Pharmacies and Payer Relations Team on pharmacy operations, regulatory compliance (including 340B, FCA, Anti-Kickback), contracts, transactions, and strategic initiatives; negotiate and draft complex commercial and data agreements; advise senior executives; partner with enterprise stakeholders; and mentor other attorneys.

Provide legal advice and support on consumer credit card complaints, disputes, billing disputes, and fraud. Investigate complaints with compliance and business partners, draft written responses, identify trends and legal/regulatory risks, recommend standardized approaches, and collaborate cross-functionally to ensure timely regulatory and business compliance.

Lead GC AI's privacy, data protection, and security compliance legal work: own GDPR/CCPA/CPRA posture, manage SOC 2/ISO programs, negotiate DPAs and security addenda, advise product and engineering on privacy-by-design and AI governance, support enterprise sales on security reviews, and maintain privacy/security playbooks.

The Manager, Counsel will manage procurement contracts, provide advice to the ESM team, and ensure compliance with legal standards while fostering strong relationships with stakeholders.

Provide high-trust executive support to the General Counsel: manage a complex multi-timezone calendar, prepare meeting materials, coordinate travel, triage communications, support recruiting/onboarding, track projects in Notion/Asana, coordinate outside counsel and vendors, handle HR/compensation administration, manage documents in Google Drive, and process expenses. Must handle confidential legal and personnel matters with discretion.

Lead legal strategy for Coinbase payments partnerships: draft, negotiate, and execute complex commercial agreements; provide business-centric regulatory guidance; partner cross-functionally to close deals; build scalable commercial playbooks and risk-mitigation strategies; manage a high-volume deal pipeline and coordinate with specialists and outside counsel.

The position involves providing legal support for FinTech products, negotiating partnerships, drafting agreements, and ensuring compliance with financial regulations. The role requires expertise in embedded finance and advising on financial products.

Provide legal counsel across product lifecycle for AI agents and SaaS products, triage and resolve legal issues, advise Product/Design/Engineering/Marketing, manage IP, monitor AI/privacy regulations, build scalable compliance processes, and deliver training.

Lead GitLab's corporate and compliance legal function, advising C-suite and board on governance, securities, SEC reporting, equity compensation, executive compensation, and M&A. Build and manage a remote corporate legal team, implement policies and templates, oversee equity plan administration, manage outside counsel, champion AI-enabled legal workflows, and ensure compliance with public company obligations.

Transactional attorney to negotiate and manage high-volume vendor agreements (SaaS, cloud, payment processing), build and improve contract playbooks and templates, partner with cross-functional teams, deliver training, and scale vendor contracting processes in a fast-growing fintech environment.

Lead Webflow's corporate legal function focusing on board governance, entity management, M&A, strategic transactions, public company readiness, securities and SOX compliance, employment and litigation oversight, and building a scalable corporate legal team while managing outside counsel.

Lead counsel for the Discover payment network US Commercial & Product team. Provide strategic legal advice on commercial contracting, credit products, fintech and payment innovation, negotiate and draft agreements, manage a legal team, partner with risk and compliance, and drive process and template improvements to support issuer, acquirer, and merchant relationships.

Provide commercial contracting support by drafting, reviewing, and negotiating high-volume customer and vendor agreements (SaaS, MSAs, SOWs, NDAs, BAAs). Advise Sales and cross-functional teams, manage routine to moderately complex negotiations, maintain templates and playbooks, and support data privacy and AI-related contractual issues.

The Assistant General Counsel will manage litigation, conduct investigations, supervise outside counsel, advise business leaders, and counsel on legal risks.

Provide end-to-end commercial litigation support, advise on subpoenas and customer data privacy, manage eDiscovery lifecycle with automation/AI, mitigate and resolve disputes, drive process and technology-enabled innovation, and deliver actionable legal insights to cross-functional stakeholders.

Design, build, and run SRAM's commercial legal infrastructure including CLM, templates, playbooks, and AI-assisted workflows. Lead complex negotiations for manufacturing, supply, distribution, sponsorship, and international deals. Drive adoption of standardized tools, capture institutional knowledge, support global supply chain and trade compliance, and scale the commercial legal function while providing clear, business-focused legal advice.

Lead Counsel for Capital One Shopping, overseeing legal support for business operations, providing legal advice across various teams, and managing a team of attorneys.

Lead and scale Motive's litigation function: develop and execute litigation strategy across IP, trade secret, Lanham and competitor disputes; manage outside counsel and budgets; oversee trial and motion practice; advise cross-functional teams; mentor litigation staff; and leverage AI-driven tools to advance business objectives.

Provide legal counsel to Card Partnerships on marketing, customer communications, promotions, account servicing, and product strategies. Review customer-facing marketing and servicing collateral for compliance with consumer financial, advertising, privacy, and UDAAP laws. Partner with business, Risk, Compliance, Brand, and Communications to identify risks and craft compliant, business-focused solutions.

Provide legal counsel on data privacy matters, conduct privacy assessments, draft policies and training, advise on marketing and product initiatives, review and negotiate data protection and vendor agreements, monitor privacy law developments, and support the privacy program and vendor management.