Senior Managing Counsel, Regulatory

Our Purpose Mastercard powers economies and empowers people in 200+ countries and territories worldwide. Together with our customers, we’re helping build a sustainable economy where everyone can prosper. We support a wide range of digital payments choices, making transactions secure, simple, smart and accessible. Our technology and innovation, partnerships and networks combine to deliver a unique set of products and services that help people, businesses and governments realize their greatest potential. Title and Summary Senior Managing Counsel, Regulatory Who is Mastercard? Mastercard is a global technology company in the payments industry. Our mission is to connect and power an inclusive, digital economy that benefits everyone, everywhere by making transactions safe, simple, smart, and accessible. Mastercard's digital assets business spans stablecoin settlement, tokenized deposits, crypto card programs, on/off-ramp services, and regulated digital asset infrastructure. Together, these capabilities enable banks, fintechs, virtual asset service providers, and merchants to move value across traditional and blockchain rails with compliance, speed, and certainty. Our decency quotient, or DQ, drives our culture and everything we do inside and outside of our company. With connections across more than 210 countries and territories, we are building a sustainable world that unlocks priceless possibilities for all.

The Global Regulatory team is looking for a Senior Managing Counsel, Regulatory to serve as the lead regulatory counsel for Mastercard's digital assets initiatives globally and oversee the Regulatory workstreams of digital assets M&A integration. This role leads regulatory strategy, licensing, supervisory engagement, and regulatory compliance management across Mastercard's digital assets portfolio. The ideal candidate is a seasoned regulatory attorney with deep expertise in digital asset and payments regulation, a track record of building and scaling regulatory programs in a high-growth environment, and proven success leading global teams through novel licensing and supervisory matters.

In this position, you will: Develop and execute the global regulatory strategy for Mastercard's digital assets businesses, including engagement, advocacy, and positioning with regulators across the US, EU, UK, APAC, and other priority markets. Lead a global team of regulatory counsel and regulatory compliance professionals supporting digital asset products and entities, including hiring, coaching, performance management, and team development. Serve as the senior regulatory liaison to business, product, and functional leaders for digital asset initiatives. Oversee licensing strategy and execution across applicable frameworks, including NYDFS BitLicense, state money transmitter licenses, EU MiCA, and analogous regimes in other jurisdictions. Lead supervisory engagement and regulatory examinations for Mastercard's digital assets business, including support of acquired entities in coordination of examinations and examination responses, remediation commitments, and ongoing supervisory reporting. Provide regulatory advice on product development and commercial transactions. Advise on the application of the Travel Rule (31 CFR 1010 and equivalent regimes), sanctions and AML obligations, consumer protection requirements, market conduct rules, and prudential expectations specific to digital asset activities. Drive the design and implementation of compliance management policies and controls calibrated to the operational and technological characteristics of digital asset products, including blockchain analytics, wallet screening, and on-chain monitoring. Manage external counsel across multiple jurisdictions; synthesize and translate complex multi-jurisdictional advice into executable guidance for the business. Provide periodic reports to senior management on emerging regulatory developments, supervisory trends, and the state of the