Senior Manager, Senior Counsel – Corporate and Strategic Transactions

About the role

The Senior Manager, Senior Counsel in the role will be responsible for the following:

• Assisting in managing (including drafting and negotiating) a wide range of transactions: mergers and acquisitions, venture capital investments, and supporting the transactional needs of the Premium Products team, including Capital One Travel, Capital One Dining, and Velocity Black businesses, such as travel inventory agreements, incentive agreements, and license agreements
• Working with complex due diligence reviews, business line partnerships, portfolio sales and acquisitions, alliances and other business agreements, marketing agreements, airport lounge agreements, and complex procurement and outsourcing contracts
• Counseling and advising business groups, including providing legal advice on complex legal issues
• Implementing and monitoring repeatable, controlled processes for transactional work
• Managing and coordinating outside counsel, including management of the delivery of services and cost

About the Person

The successful candidate will be a seasoned legal professional with proven ability to operate effectively in a complex, highly regulated, and evolving environment. The candidate will have a demonstrated ability and willingness to work as a team player, interacting with associates across departments and job levels; the ability to work in a fast-paced environment with minimal supervision; strong organizational skills with impeccable attention to detail; excellent analytical, verbal and written communication skills; and the ability to work cooperatively with internal constituents to create efficient processes and to get issues resolved across organizational boundaries. Exceptional drafting and negotiation skills and the ability to identify, lead and manage a negotiation team as well as the ability to manage multiple transactions, take on new responsibilities and handle novel issues are critical.

Basic Qualifications

• Juris Doctor from an accredited law school
• Active member in good standing of at least one state bar with the ability to register as Corporate Counsel in Virginia
• At least 4 years of experience in a law firm, government or an in-house legal department, or a combination, with a focus on corporate and strategic transactions (private and public mergers and acquisitions, venture capital investments, portfolio and other asset sales and acquisitions, credit card partnerships, credit card association agreements, or marketing alliances)

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience, including drafting and negotiating, across a wide range of commercial transactions including in-house procurement or supply chain management transactions, and marketing arrangements
• Experience providing advice and counsel on transactions to clients in the travel or financial services industry
• Ability and desire to learn new areas of law
• Experience with Google Workspace

Pay

McLean, VA: $200,700 – $229,100 for Sr. Manager, Sr. Counsel

Richmond, VA: $182,500 – $208,300 for Sr. Manager, Sr. Counsel

Candidates hired to work in other locations will be subject to the pay range associated with that location, and the actual annualized salary amount offered to any candidate at the time of hire will be reflected solely in the candidate’s offer letter.

This role is also eligible to earn performance-based incentive compensation, which may include cash bonus(es) and/or long-term incentives (LTI). Incentives could be discretionary or non-discretionary depending on the plan.