VP- Structured Products Legal, Americas

About the role

Join the Legal team to protect Barclays, its employees, and its brands while ensuring global competitiveness and compliance with legal standards. Your responsibilities will include risk mitigation, managing strategic transactions, and overseeing business contracts.

Responsibilities

• Provide legal support to Barclays’ Structured Products business across the U.S. and the broader Americas region.
• Partner closely with the business and control functions to advise on the development, documentation, execution, and distribution of structured notes and other structured products across multiple asset classes.
• Draft and negotiate transaction documentation, provide guidance on U.S. securities laws and regulatory requirements, and help ensure strong governance and risk management practices.
• Monitor legal and regulatory developments, improve legal processes and templates, and support strategic initiatives that enhance the Structured Products platform.

Requirements

• Experience in structured products or related capital markets legal work at a leading law firm and/or an in-house legal department at a financial institution.
• Knowledge of U.S. securities laws, disclosure standards, broker-dealer regulation, and related legal frameworks relevant to structured products.
• Ability to advise on complex transactions, exercise sound judgment, and balance commercial objectives with legal, regulatory, and reputational risk considerations.

Qualifications

• Qualified lawyer admitted in good standing in New York.
• Ability to draft, review, and negotiate complex transaction and offering documentation.
• Attention to detail and ability to manage transactional and advisory work in a transaction-focused business environment.

Skills

• Collaborative legal professional who thrives in a fast-paced capital markets environment and enjoys advising on complex financial products.

Benefits

Barclays offers a suite of competitive and generous employee benefits, including medical, dental and vision coverage, 401(k), life insurance, and other paid leave for qualifying circumstances.

Pay

• New York: Minimum Salary $200,000, Maximum Salary $290,000
• Whippany, NJ: Minimum Salary $200,000, Maximum Salary $290,000

Schedule

This role is located in New York or the Whippany, NJ offices.

Purpose of the role

To ensure that the activities of the business units in the Markets division are conducted in compliance with applicable laws, rules and regulations, and to help the bank manage legal risk associated with these activities.

Vice President Expectations

• To contribute or set strategy, drive requirements and make recommendations for change.
• To manage and maintain policies/ processes; deliver continuous improvements and escalate breaches of policies/procedures.
• To lead a number of specialists to influence the operations of a department, in alignment with strategic as well as tactical priorities, while balancing short and long term goals and ensuring that budgets and schedules meet corporate requirements.
• To lead collaborative, multi-year assignments and guide team members through structured assignments, identify the need for the inclusion of other areas of specialisation to complete assignments.
• To train, guide and coach less experienced specialists and provide information affecting long term profits, organisational risks and strategic decisions.
• To advise key stakeholders, including functional leadership teams and senior management on functional and cross functional areas of impact and alignment.
• To manage and mitigate risks through assessment, in support of the control and governance agenda.
• To demonstrate leadership and accountability for managing risk and strengthening controls in relation to the work your team does.
• To demonstrate comprehensive understanding of the organisation functions to contribute to achieving the goals of the business.
• To collaborate with other areas of work, for business aligned support areas to keep up to speed with business activity and the business strategies.
• To create solutions based on sophisticated analytical thought comparing and selecting complex alternatives. In-depth analysis with interpretative thinking will be required to define problems and develop innovative solutions.
• To adopt and include the outcomes of extensive research in problem solving processes.
• To seek out, build and maintain trusting relationships and partnerships with internal and external stakeholders in order to accomplish key business objectives, using influencing and negotiating skills to achieve outcomes.

Barclays Values and Mindset

We celebrate the unique perspectives and experiences each individual brings, believing our differences make us stronger. We are committed to creating an inclusive environment where everyone feels valued and respected. Our values are Respect, Integrity, Service, Excellence, and Stewardship, and our mindset is Empower, Challenge, and Drive.

Legal Right to Work

Barclays is required by law to confirm that you have the Legal Right to Work in any role that you apply for. If you currently hold a work visa sponsored by Barclays, or you would require sponsorship from Barclays, you must declare this as part of your application. Sponsored visas are role and entity specific and any changes must be reviewed. It is important that you ensure you are working on the correct visa at all times. Failure to accurately disclose your visa status or Legal Right to Work may result in your application or any employment offer being withdrawn at any time.

Enhanced Governance Arrangements

If successful, you may be required to comply with additional regulatory and compliance obligations, such as disclosure of personal trading activities and external interest/affiliations.