Associate Counsel

About Us
Visa is a world leader in payments technology, facilitating transactions between consumers, merchants, financial institutions and government entities across more than 200 countries and territories, dedicated to uplifting everyone, everywhere by being the best way to pay and be paid.

At Visa, you'll have the opportunity to create impact at scale — tackling meaningful challenges, growing your skills and seeing your contributions impact lives around the world.

Join Visa and do work that matters – to you, to your community, and to the world. Progress starts with you.

Job Description

Visa is seeking an attorney to support mainly Visa’s business operations in the Southern Cone (Argentina, Paraguay, Uruguay, and Bolivia) as part of Visa’s Legal & Compliance team for the Latin America & Caribbean region. The position will be based in Buenos Aires.  

This role requires a commercially focused legal professional with proven expertise in financial regulatory matters, contract negotiation, and civil, commercial, and consumer law. The successful candidate will act as a strategic partner to the business handling diverse legal issues. It demands agility, ownership, and strategic thinking to support the company in today's fast-changing legal and industry environment. 

Key Responsibilities :

• Advise on financial regulatory frameworks applicable in the five jurisdictions; monitor regulatory developments; support regulatory implementation strategies. 
• Draft, review, and negotiate commercial agreements (services, partnerships, vendor contracts, technology and SaaS agreements, etc.); assess and encourage risk-based legal advice.  
• Review marketing initiatives, terms and conditions, and agreements to support local teams in designing legally compliant initiatives. 
• Provide integrated legal support across Argentina, Uruguay, Paraguay and Bolivia; align legal advice with regional and global teams. 
• Act as a trusted advisor to business, product and other stakeholders; provide training and guidance on legal and regulatory matters. 
• Contribute to process improvement, knowledge management, and legal operations efficiency; leverage technology -including AI- and best practices to deliver high-quality legal services. 
• Work with other members of the legal team and outside counsel to manage local claims and litigation matters with strategic, risk mitigating mindset.  

This is a hybrid position. Expectation of days in office will be confirmed by your hiring manager.

Qualifications

• Law degree with strong academic credentials. 
• Master’s degree or specialization in corporate, banking, business law, fintech, or law and economics (desirable).  
• 5+ years’ legal experience in payments, fintech, financial institutions, or relevant top tier or specialized boutique law firm practice. 
• Fluent in Spanish and English. 
• Commercial contracts, financial regulation, civil and commercial law, and consumer law knowledge. 
• Excellent legal analytical and communication skills. 
• Strong interpersonal, influencing, and trust-building skills. 
• Proactive, agile, independent, results-oriented, detail-focused.
• Experience with AI in legal matters and operations
• Ability to manage multiple priorities, multiple stakeholders and meet tight deadlines.  

Visa is an EEO Employer

Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability or protected veteran status. Visa will also consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with EEOC guidelines and applicable local law.