SVP, Deputy General Counsel Data, Product, Data & AI Strategy, Technology

FIS is a global leader in financial services technology, providing software, services, and data-driven solutions that power banks, capital markets firms, and businesses of all sizes around the world. The company's platforms span core banking, payments, capital markets, and banking-as-a-service, processing trillions of dollars in transactions annually and supporting thousands of financial institutions and businesses across more than 100 countries.

About the Role

FIS is seeking a Senior Vice President, Deputy General Counsel, Product, Data & AI Strategy, Technology to support the company's product, data, and artificial intelligence and technology initiatives. This highly visible role reports to the Chief Legal Officer and involves regular partnership across product, technology, data, compliance, risk, commercial, and executive leadership. The successful candidate will be a hands-on, commercially practical legal leader capable of providing senior counsel across product development, data and AI strategy, technology, intellectual property, and emerging regulatory requirements while helping FIS scale responsible innovation in a complex, global fintech environment.

Reporting directly to the Chief Legal Officer, this executive will partner with FIS’s product, technology, data, compliance, risk, and commercial leadership teams and will serve as a trusted advisor to the C-suite on matters of data strategy, AI governance, and emerging technology risk.

Responsibilities

• Serve as FIS’s senior product counsel for data and AI, providing strategic legal guidance across the full product development lifecycle, from ideation, design, and build through launch, iteration, and post-deployment monitoring.
• Act as the legal voice in product roadmap discussions and ensure that data and AI considerations are embedded in product strategy from the outset.
• Advise product, engineering, and data science teams on the legal risks, requirements, and governance frameworks associated with developing, licensing, training, and deploying AI and machine-learning capabilities within FIS products. Provide counsel on model development, data inputs, algorithmic decision-making, explainability, and responsible AI principles.
• Track, interpret, and advise on the rapidly evolving regulatory landscape for AI and data use in financial services, including U.S. federal and state AI regulation, international frameworks (e.g., EU AI Act), and sector-specific guidance from banking, payments, and capital markets regulators.
• Partner with legal, compliance, enterprise risk, technology, and information security leadership to develop, implement, and mature FIS’s AI governance framework.
• Structure, review, and negotiate complex data- and AI-related commercial agreements—including technology vendor contracts, data licensing arrangements, AI platform agreements, strategic partnerships, and client-facing terms governing AI-enabled products and services.
• Serve as a senior legal advisor to executive leadership on data, AI, and technology strategy. Represent the Office of the Chief Legal Officer in cross-functional product, technology, and governance forums.
• Build, lead, mentor, and scale a specialized team of product counsel supporting FIS's data, AI, and technology portfolio.
• Serve as the direct manager of the Head of Legal India, providing leadership, strategic direction, and oversight of FIS’s APAC-based legal operations.

Requirements

• J.D. and active bar membership in good standing, with 15+ years of relevant legal experience, including significant in-house experience advising on technology, data, AI, or product counsel matters.
• Deep, demonstrated experience serving as product counsel for AI, machine learning, data-intensive, or technology-enabled products, ideally within financial services, fintech, payments, banking, capital markets, or a leading technology company operating at scale.
• Strong command of the legal and regulatory frameworks governing data use, AI, and emerging technology, including data privacy (e.g., CCPA, GDPR), intellectual property, commercial contracting, and AI-specific regulation applicable to financial services.
• Experience advising senior executives and cross-functional product, engineering, data, compliance, risk, and technology leadership in a fast-paced, matrixed environment.
• Excellent judgment and the ability to balance legal risk management with commercial pragmatism and the pace of product innovation.
• A track record of building trusted relationships with business and technology stakeholders while maintaining legal independence and sound governance discipline.
• Prior people-leadership experience, with the gravitas to operate as a senior member of the Office of the Chief Legal Officer.
• Willingness to be based in or relocate to Jacksonville, Florida.

What Sets a Strong Candidate Apart

FIS is seeking a legal leader who combines elite product counsel skills with deep fluency in data, AI, and emerging technology. The ideal candidate will have operated as a strategic partner to product and engineering teams, shaped the legal architecture for AI-enabled or data-intensive products, and translated complex technical, legal, and regulatory issues into clear, actionable guidance for senior business leaders. Candidates who have built, led, or matured a dedicated data, AI, or technology product counsel function, particularly in a regulated financial services, fintech, payments, or global technology environment, are especially encouraged to apply.