VP, Corporate Counsel – Digital Payments, FinTech
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Corporate counsel supporting Patriot Bank’s digital payments, cards, and FinTech partnerships. Advising on agreements, regulatory compliance, product development, and banking legal matters.
Responsibilities:
- Provide legal support for the Bank's digital payments, FinTech partnerships, credit card, prepaid card, and related consumer and commercial banking products
- Review, draft, and negotiate commercial agreements, including FinTech partnership, vendor, cardholder, processing, marketing, and technology contracts
- Advise business stakeholders on legal and regulatory issues affecting payment products and services
- Monitor and analyze federal and state laws and regulations impacting banking, payments, consumer financial services, and financial technology
- Support product development initiatives and legal reviews of new or enhanced products and services
- Collaborate with Compliance, Risk Management, Information Security, Operations, and Product teams to identify and mitigate legal and regulatory risks
- Assist with responses to regulatory examinations, audits, and oversight inquiries
- Support corporate governance, contract management, regulatory matters, and general banking operations
- Conduct legal research and prepare memoranda, presentations, and business guidance on complex legal issues
- No managerial responsibilities
Requirements:
- Juris Doctor (J.D.) degree from an accredited law school
- Active bar membership in good standing in any U.S. jurisdiction
- 1-4 years of relevant legal experience at a law firm, financial institution, FinTech company, regulatory agency, or combination thereof
- Strong legal research, drafting, analytical, and communication skills
- Ability to work independently while collaborating effectively with cross-functional business teams
- Sound judgment and a practical, business-focused approach to problem solving
- Clear and effective communicator
- Collaborative team player
- Detail-driven with a high level of accuracy
- Preferred: experience supporting financial institutions, payment companies, FinTech organizations, or consumer financial services businesses
- Preferred: familiarity with credit card, prepaid card, debit card, ACH, RTP, or other payment systems
- Preferred: working knowledge of TILA, Regulation Z, EFTA, Regulation E, UDAAP, BSA/AML, CARD Act, CFPB guidance and regulations, Visa/Mastercard network rules, and state money transmission and consumer protection laws
- Preferred: experience reviewing technology, SaaS, data-sharing, or vendor agreements
- Must be able to travel to client offices, prospects, branches, and industry events as necessary
- Must occasionally lift and/or move up to 10 pounds
Benefits:
- Professional growth and development opportunities within a dynamic financial institution
- Reasonable accommodations for individuals with disabilities
- Equal employment opportunity protections
- Travel to client offices, prospects, branches, and industry events as necessary
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