DESCRIPTION
Amazon Pay is looking for a talented attorney to support our rapidly growing and evolving payments businesses. You will serve as the lawyer responsible for counseling the business on a broad range of payment and regulatory matters with particular focus on UPI, payment aggregation business, consumer lending solutions, co-branded credit card programs and merchant services.
You will also work with business and tech partners to structure complex transactions with third party, ensuring adherence to legal and regulatory compliances and also offer advisory on information security related aspects. You will also work with business teams to explore and evaluate new business opportunities in the payments space, to help the teams understand the regulatory compliances and to facilitate launch of any new products/ services. Principal duties will include providing day-to-day advice, resolving issues that arise in existing commercial relationships, drafting and negotiating complicated payment, cobrand and other commercial agreements, and providing ongoing legal counseling on a wide range of legal areas including payment aggregation business. The duties will also include engagement with bank and network partners, manage customer disputes and assist in responding to regulatory complaints.
You will be responsible for regulatory engagement and to work with industry bodies to drive policy change initiatives, and to represent Amazon Pay in regulatory forums; you will work closely with various teams including the public policy team for such matters. You will also be responsible to monitor and publish regulatory changes, and work with various internal teams to drive compliance.
A successful candidate should have a strong transactional and product counsel background and be hard working, proactive, entrepreneurial, and able to apply sound, pragmatic judgment in ambiguous situations. In-house experience at a technology or financial service company is a plus. Throughout all the above tasks the Attorney will closely coordinate with the global legal teams and outside counsel.
Key job responsibilities
Advice on UPI and digital lending business. Have experience in payment aggregation regulation including merchant on-boarding and compliance, customer payments and experiences. Company Secretary certification is a good to have.
We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:
Bengaluru, KA, IND
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
L.L.B (undergraduate law degree) from a recognized university in India.
A minimum of 12+ years of legal experience in financial sector (with several years of experience at a leading law firm and/or in-house.
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
Additional CS qualification is desirable.
Extensive experience and strong skills in drafting and negotiating contracts.
Extensive experience in analyzing and responding to regulatory and compliance matters.
Ability to function autonomously yet communicates laterally and upwardly with ease.
Strong legal and business judgment.
Excellent written and oral communication skills.
Excellent interpersonal skills to effectively communicate and coordinate complex issues and projects with diverse levels of management and employees.