Team Summary:
The Visa Asia Pacific Legal team manages Visa’s legal affairs in the Asia Pacific region. Our team provides advice and services to ensure business goals are successfully met and that Visa’s brand and reputation are protected while minimizing legal liability and regulatory risk. Our vision entails each legal professional living the guiding principles to be a proactive partner who never loses sight of his/her responsibility to protect the company.
What a Director, Senior Counsel does at Visa:
This position is for a seasoned business/commercial lawyer to join Visa’s growing legal team that supports Visa’s businesses responsible for the Japan market, for a broad range of legal issues including, in particular, corporate/commercial, technology, products, marketing, privacy and intellectual property. The position will be based in Tokyo, Japan and will report to a senior lawyer in the Visa Asia Pacific Legal team, based outside of Japan.
We are looking for a strong commercial lawyer with excellent communication and analytical skills, who is self-motivated, able to work proactively and independently with minimal supervision, and has the skillset and leadership mindset to effectively interact with business units and other support functions at all levels across Visa to influence business directions and bring about positive outcomes.
The applicant should ideally have experience in commercial business law and management, and have excellent legal drafting skills in English and Japanese. The applicant must have technical legal expertise with good commercial/legal risk judgement, and be able to juggle multiple priorities with tight deadlines in a fast paced and challenging, but inspiring and rewarding, environment. Prior payments experience is not required, although the candidate must be willing to learn Visa’s business model and the payments industry.