Senior Corporate Counsel Lead

About the role

The FIS Legal team, part of the LCCA group, provides strategic support to businesses on legal, compliance, and corporate affairs matters. The Regulatory Legal team specializes in financial services and technology laws and regulations, regulatory policy matters, and engagement with regulators.

Responsibilities

• Serve as an SME on AI legal and regulatory matters globally, collaborating with specialists across the LCCA group and other key stakeholders.
• Guide the business through evolving laws, rules, and regulations related to AI, implementing a scalable control environment that supports growth and innovation while ensuring compliance.
• Participate in public policy discussions to shape the Company's stance on AI regulatory policy and legislative developments.
• Support the development of sustainable AI policies, governance frameworks, and trust-related artifacts.
• Advisory on responses to regulatory notices, inquiries, exams, or other correspondence with regulatory agencies regarding AI issues.
• Lead and oversee gap assessments against evolving AI laws, rules, regulations, and industry best practices.
• Collaborate with Business, Data Privacy & IP Legal teams to advise on AI-related contract terms in client and vendor agreements.
• Provide legal counsel to the People Office on AI colleague enablement training and literacy requirements.
• Partner with Cybersecurity and Data Privacy to advise on high impact issues at the intersection of AI and cybersecurity.
• Manage relationships with outside counsel as required, ensuring timely, consistent, and cost-effective advice.

Requirements

• J.D. with active membership in at least one state bar or admission to practice in the UK or EU.
• Minimum 8–12 years of post-qualification experience (PQE) in a relevant legal practice area, including deep knowledge of evolving global AI laws, rules, and regulations.
• Strong communication, research, writing, and analytical skills, including drafting of advice, and the ability to work independently and collaboratively in a fast-paced environment.
• Experience advising clients in a complex, diversified, global organization, prioritizing and managing multiple projects efficiently and effectively.
• Confident and proactive self-starter with strong interpersonal skills and a demonstrated ability to provide sound legal advice, exercise good judgment, and work well with management and cross-functional stakeholders, including at senior levels.
• Familiarity with AI governance frameworks and risk management, such as the NIST AI Risk Management Framework or equivalent, is a plus.