FIS · New York
Sales & Business
Job Description
Role Overview
FIS is seeking a senior Enterprise Platform Product Counsel to provide strategic legal support for FIS’s enterprise platform offerings. This new role is part of FIS’s dedicated Product Counsel team supporting Data, AI, Technology, Fraud and Enterprise Platform priorities, with the Enterprise Platform role identified as a Senior Counsel position within the Product Counsel team. The role is designed for an experienced product lawyer who can partner closely with platform, technology, product, sales, compliance, privacy, security and business stakeholders to support products that are foundational to FIS’s enterprise offerings.
Enterprise platforms require legal support that is embedded, technically fluent and commercially pragmatic. FIS’s internal guidance expects product counsel to understand delivery models, data flows, system design, client-facing commitments, third-party dependencies, regulatory requirements, security posture, vendor risk considerations and contracting architecture. The successful candidate will serve as a strategic legal owner for assigned platform products, helping FIS accelerate innovation, compress time to deal, reduce rework and build regulator and customer trust through governance by design.
Key Responsibilities
Serve as the primary legal resource and product legal owner for assigned enterprise platform offerings, operating as an integrated generalist and single-threaded owner of legal strategy for those products.
Embed with product, technology, implementation, support, sales, compliance, security, privacy and business leaders to provide legal support from early-stage ideation through launch, production support and sunset or migration.
Advise on platform delivery models, including SaaS, hosted, on-premise and other deployment models, as well as related data flows, hosting or geography changes and third-party dependencies.
Support enterprise platform contracting architecture, including FIS Terms & Conditions, orders, solution terms, pricing attachments, product specifications, support policies and related client-facing documentation.
Ensure platform contract terms and operational commitments are aligned with approved enterprise positions on security, privacy, subcontracting, service levels, audit, vendor management and incident response.
Partner with product leadership to define legal launch readiness, including required approvals, contract readiness, go-to-market artifacts, template availability and internal alignment on product-specific legal risks.
Maintain deep knowledge of platform functionality, roadmap, revenue priorities, sales pipeline, implementation model, support obligations, vendors, client expectations and regulatory context.
Identify and coordinate legal dependencies across privacy, data protection, security, intellectual property, regulatory, consumer protection, commercial and litigation issues.
Support vendor and partner work where platform knowledge is required, including review of vendor relationships, critical third-party dependencies, pass-through obligations, subcontractor responsibilities and change-management issues.
Attend sales pipeline calls, support RFP responses and negotiate platform-related commercial agreements while integrating product knowledge, regulatory awareness and commercial judgment.
Manage template updates and release discipline for platform terms and referenced documentation, including coordinating publication timing, version control and retirement of outdated forms.
Advise on client audits, security reviews, penetration testing requests and vendor risk management processes, coordinating with the designated teams and ensuring client-facing positions follow approved guidance.
Support disputes and operational issues involving platform offerings, including change management, specifications, notice obligations, cure mechanics, third-party dependencies and factual development for litigation or dispute resolution.
Develop training and knowledge-transfer materials for internal legal colleagues, sellers and business teams, including annotated contract documentation, fallback positions, non-negotiables, product overviews, escalation triggers and negotiation trends.
Establish backup coverage and maintain a current product counsel knowledge base so platform legal support remains seamless during leave, transitions or succession planning.
Required Qualifications
Juris Doctor from an accredited law school and active membership in good standing with at least one U.S. state bar.
Minimum of 9 years of relevant legal experience, with significant experience advising on enterprise software, SaaS, hosted platforms, technology services, financial technology, banking technology or commercial technology transactions.
Demonstrated ability to support complex platform products across product development, launch, contracting, compliance coordination, security reviews, vendor risk management, disputes and lifecycle management.
Strong technical fluency, including the ability to understand architecture diagrams, data flows, system design and legal implications of engineering or platform decisions.
Experience drafting, negotiating and maintaining commercial technology agreements, solution terms, order forms, specifications, support terms, pricing attachments and related product documentation.
Experience advising on security, privacy, third-party risk, subcontracting, audit, service levels, incident response or operational commitments in client-facing technology products.
Ability to coordinate effectively across legal specialists, compliance, security, privacy, product, sales and business leadership to deliver unified and practical legal guidance.
Proven ability to manage high-volume, business-critical legal work while identifying process improvements and scalable contracting solutions.
Preferred Qualifications
Experience supporting enterprise platforms used by banks, credit unions, payment providers, financial institutions or other regulated clients.
Familiarity with client security reviews, audit requests, third-party penetration testing processes, vendor risk management and recurring enterprise security negotiation issues.
Experience with API products, platform integrations, specifications, pricing metrics, pass-through fees or third-party IP indemnity structures.
Experience creating or maintaining contracting stacks that include master terms, orders, solution terms, pricing attachments, product specifications and operational policies.
Experience developing scalable legal playbooks, product legal one-pagers, annotated negotiation guides, template release plans and training programs for sales and legal teams.
Experience advising in fast-moving enterprise software or fintech environments where legal support must accelerate innovation while reducing regulatory, commercial and operational risk.
Why FIS
FIS’s dedicated Product Counsel structure reflects the company’s view that embedded product legal support is essential to innovation, speed to market, risk mitigation and customer trust. As Enterprise Platform Product Counsel, the successful candidate will help legal operate at the center of product strategy rather than at the end of the process. This role offers the opportunity to support enterprise platform offerings that are critical to FIS’s business, while helping product teams move faster, contract more consistently and build governance into the product lifecycle.
Privacy Statement
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EEOC Statement
FIS is an equal opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, genetic information, national origin, disability, veteran status, and other protected characteristics. The EEO is the Law poster is available here supplement document available here
For positions located in the US, the following conditions apply. If you are made a conditional offer of employment, you will be required to undergo a drug test. ADA Disclaimer: In developing this job description care was taken to include all competencies needed to successfully perform in this position. However, for Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) purposes, the essential functions of the job may or may not have been described for purposes of ADA reasonable accommodation. All reasonable accommodation requests will be reviewed and evaluated on a case-by-case basis.
Sourcing Model
Recruitment at FIS works primarily on a direct sourcing model; a relatively small portion of our hiring is through recruitment agencies. FIS does not accept resumes from recruitment agencies which are not on the preferred supplier list and is not responsible for any related fees for resumes submitted to job postings, our employees, or any other part of our company.
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