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Senior Counsel - Privacy, Regulatory & Technology
Mastercard International Incorporated · 🇺🇸 Purchase, New York
Sponsorship verdict
Sponsorship possible
One solid signal, not two — worth applying, and worth asking about sponsorship early.
- Employer is on a government sponsor recordThe US Department of Labor certified 76 H-1B/E-3 labor condition applications for this employer between Oct 2025 and Jun 2026 (latest Jun 2026) — the step every H-1B hire needs first. USCIS also records 286 H-1B approvals in FY2023. Source: LCA disclosure data (US Department of Labor (OFLC)).
- The posting doesn’t mention sponsorshipSilence isn’t a refusal — ask the recruiter before investing much time.
- No salary bar for this routeH-1B has no fixed salary bar: the employer must pay at least the prevailing wage for the role and area. Cap-subject employers enter a lottery weighted by wage level. Source: https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/12/29/2025-23853/weighted-selection-process-for-registrants-and-petitioners-seeking-to-file-cap-subject-h-1b, rules effective 2026-02-27.
- What Mastercard International Incorporated paid sponsored hires in similar roles2 certified filings for “Manager, Business Analysis” (Information Technology Project Managers) in NY: $140k–$159k, median $149k. Most were filed at wage level III (50%) — 3 lottery entries, ≈46% projected selection odds for cap-subject employers. Source: US Department of Labor LCA disclosure data (Oct 2025 – Jun 2026).
- Confirmed live todayWhen a source last listed this job as open.
US H-1B: cap-subject employers enter a lottery weighted by wage level — Level I gets 1 entry, Level IV gets 4 (DHS projected selection odds ≈15% at Level I to ≈61% at Level IV). Universities and non-profit research employers are cap-exempt. The $100,000 fee for new petitions from abroad is currently blocked by a court order (appeal pending).
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Sponsor Radar — Mastercard International Incorporated
The US Department of Labor certified 76 H-1B/E-3 labor condition applications for this employer between Oct 2025 and Jun 2026 (latest Jun 2026) — the step every H-1B hire needs first. USCIS also records 286 H-1B approvals in FY2023. Source: LCA disclosure data (US Department of Labor (OFLC)).
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About the role
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 Counsel - Privacy, Regulatory & Technology Overview Mastercard’s Privacy, Regulatory, and Technology team is seeking a Senior Counsel to provide support to the Services Business & Market Insights vertical, with a focus on the Enterprise and Credit Risk (ECR) product family. ECR is a significant and growing workstream that involves continued product innovation, evolving data architectures, and commercialization across global markets through strategic customer and partner engagements. The role will serve as the primary legal lead for the ECR portfolio. The successful candidate will work closely with product, business, legal, regulatory, and technical stakeholders to translate a complex and evolving legal landscape into practical requirements for product development, data governance, contracting, and market expansion. Role • Serve as the primary legal lead for matters relating to Mastercard’s ECR products. • Advise business, product, and technical teams throughout the product lifecycle, including privacy by design and regulatory reviews of new products, features, data uses, models, and go-to-market approaches. • Establish and maintain legal compliance frameworks and internal controls addressing privacy, credit reporting, consent management, data subject rights, AI and automated decision-making, and model risk management. • Coordinate legal analysis across jurisdictions and develop consistent positions for the application of local credit risk, privacy, AI, data use, and related regulatory requirements. • Support the review of new markets and strategic partnerships, including the use of outside counsel where local legal analysis is required. • Draft, review, and negotiate contract terms with strategic partners and key customers. • Communicate legal requirements, risk assessments, open issues, and proposed controls clearly to business leaders, product teams, technical stakeholders, and other members of the Law Department. All About You • Juris Doctor from an accredited law school and admission to practice law in at least one U.S. jurisdiction. • Advanced expertise in privacy and data protection law, with meaningful experience advising on credit reporting, lending, financial services, or other regulated data uses. • Experience advising on AI, automated decision-making, model governance, data analytics, or related technology and data governance issues. • Ability to analyze complex product and data architectures, identify applicable legal requirements across jurisdictions, and translate those requirements into practical controls and contractual terms. • Strong written and oral communication skills, sound judgment, and the ability to work effectively with legal, business, product, regulatory, and technical stakeholders in a global organization. • Demonstrated ability to manage multiple complex matters, operate independently in areas of ambiguity, and develop consistent legal positions across products, customers, and markets. Mastercard is a merit-based, inclusive, equal opportunity employer that considers applicants without regard to gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, ethnicity, disabled or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. We hire the most qualified candidate for the