Corporate Counsel - Commercial Transactions, Enterprise Procurement & Finance Operations

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T-Mobile has an exciting opportunity for a bright, pragmatic, “business first” transactional generalist attorney to join our team and help get stuff done. This role supports enterprise procurement transactions across the company, with a particular focus on Finance operations, including Finance, Credit Risk, Fraud, Collections Decisioning Infrastructure, and Payments.

This attorney will be a capable transactional generalist with demonstrated competence in technology licensing and SaaS and data products: able to take on a wide range of enterprise procurement agreements, including multiple types of professional services, and to move quickly between categories, suppliers and business models. Support for Finance operations will be a core and constant part of the portfolio. In Finance operations, this attorney will negotiate agreements with banks, payment providers, credit bureaus and data providers, credit decisioning platform providers, fraud and identity-verification vendors, collections providers and other financial professional-services firms, and will advise stakeholders across Finance, Credit Risk, Fraud, Collections, Payments, Procurement, Privacy, Financial Regulatory, Cybersecurity, Compliance and Third-Party Risk Management.

This role requires a strong commercial negotiator who can independently drive transactions across a broad range of procurement categories, from intake through execution, identify the issues that matter, and turn legal and operational risk into practical recommendations that the business can act on.

Because this portfolio has historically relied on outside counsel and requires broad transactional skill and financial-services fluency, we expect the person in this role to work as a transactional generalist across a broad mix of enterprise procurement agreements, including multiple types of professional services; bring real competence in technology licensing and SaaS and data products; arrive with working knowledge of financial-services, credit reporting, data licensing, fraud and decisioning platform contracting, and payments contracting, and be productive on standard transactions within the first 90 days; lead negotiations on mid-complexity and higher-value transactions with sophisticated counterparties, escalating only novel or enterprise-level risk calls; be a direct, go-to advisor for Finance and Credit leaders within the first year; and supervise outside counsel on defined matters and help bring work in-house where it makes sense.

What you’ll do in your role.

• Lead drafting, review, and negotiation of complex commercial agreements, independently managing transactions from intake through negotiation, approval, and execution, including:

• Enterprise procurement transactions: master services agreements, statements of work, amendments, order forms, and related documents, including multiple types of professional services (consulting, advisory, managed and outsourced services, staffing, and other specialized services), tailoring terms to the delivery model and risk of each.

• Technology licensing and SaaS transactions: software licenses, subscriptions, hosted and cloud services, and data products and data licensing, addressing license scope, IP ownership and rights, usage and data rights (including AI use of data), security and privacy, uptime and support commitments, and pricing and renewal mechanics.

• Finance operations transactions with banks and other financial institutions, and commercial card, stored-value, and related payment programs; payment processors, payment service providers, and fintech providers; credit bureaus, data providers and analytics services, credit risk analytics and decisioning providers, and credit rating agencies; fraud-prevention, identity-verification, and authentication providers; collections agencies and technology providers; and auditors, tax advisors, and other financial professional-services firms.

• Negotiate key commercial and legal provisions, including indemnification, limitation of liability, warranties and performance commitments, service levels and credits, pricing and payment terms, audit and recordkeeping rights, data use, retention, and ownership (including AI use of data), intellectual property, business continuity, regulatory and compliance obligations, and termination and transition assistance.

• Evaluate payment and data flows, data rights, regulatory responsibilities (including FCRA and ECOA), financial exposure, auditability, and operational resilience, and flag when a matter needs specialist regulatory, privacy, cybersecurity, or consumer-protection input.

• Move comfortably between categories, learning new suppliers, business models, and risk profiles quickly, and applying templates and playbooks with judgment about when a matter fits and when it does not.

• Partner with Procurement sourcing teams from intake through signature, and with the business owners who depend on the work.

• Serve as the direct legal advisor of record to assigned business partners, representing Legal Affairs credibly in meetings without a manager present, and turning legal issues into short business decision points: the risk, its likely impact, the available mitigations, and who owns the decision.

• Align stakeholders when objectives compete, information is incomplete, or requirements change, and escalate material or novel issues early with a clear, well-framed ask while resolving matters within established legal and corporate risk frameworks.

• Manage and supervise outside counsel on assigned matters with clear scopes, budgets, and expectations, and identify matters that can move in-house by building the templates, standards, escalation guidelines, and playbooks that make that possible.

• Manage a varied, high-volume portfolio, prioritizing by business impact, complexity, timing, and risk, and use contract lifecycle management tools and data to improve cycle time and flag process friction to your manager rather than working around it.

• Use approved AI tools for drafting, research, and administrative work as a normal part of the job, remaining fully accountable for reviewing and validating AI-assisted work before it reaches a client or file.

• Share knowledge and contribute to training across the legal team and supported business functions.

The experience you’ll bring.

• A U.S. law degree, with admission to at least one state bar in good standing.

• 5+ years of relevant experience, including substantial experience in-house and/or at a law firm drafting and negotiating complex commercial agreements in financial services, data services, credit and fraud, decisioning platforms, procurement, professional services, or vendor management.

• Demonstrated competence negotiating technology licensing and SaaS agreements, including data products and data licensing, and the IP, security, privacy, and data-use issues they raise.

• Demonstrated range as a transactional generalist: experience negotiating a broad mix of enterprise procurement and professional services agreements, not a single specialty.

• Experience independently leading negotiations with sophisticated counterparties.

• Command of core commercial principles: risk allocation, indemnification, limitation of liability, warranties, service levels, audit rights, intellectual property, data rights, and termination.

• Strong judgment, with the ability to separate material risk from theoretical or lower-impact issues.

• Top-tier oral and written communication skills, including the ability to explain complex legal concepts clearly to attorneys, business partners, and senior leaders.

• Ability to manage multiple transactions in a deadline-driven, cross-functional, matrixed environment.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience negotiating payment, banking, credit bureau and data, credit risk and decisioning platforms, fraud and identity, or collections, debt sale, or payment infrastructure agreements.

• Working knowledge of the regulatory frameworks that commonly touch these arrangements, such as FCRA, ECOA, CCPA, GLBA, PCI, NACHA, and collections and consumer-contact rules.

• Experience supervising outside counsel, or moving work in-house.

• Experience advising Procurement, Finance, Treasury, Credit Risk, Fraud, Collections, or Revenue Assurance.

• Experience in a regulated, consumer-facing, financial-services, or telecommunications environment.

• Working knowledge of privacy, cybersecurity, data governance, and third-party risk in commercial transactions.

• Experience with templates, playbooks, contract lifecycle management systems, or process improvement, and with domestic and international procurement transactions.

Essential Personal Attributes

• You are a trusted legal partner: you build working relationships that make you the go-to resource for day-to-day questions in your practice area.

• You are an owner: proactive, accountable, and comfortable taking ownership of complex transactions and negotiating directly with sophisticated counterparties and outside counsel.

• You exercise strong business judgment: pragmatic and solutions-oriented, able to make sound decisions when information is incomplete or circumstances change, and quick to recognize when a matter has outgrown your authority.

• You communicate with clarity: you explain risk in plain business language, write concisely, and raise concerns early rather than waiting until a matter is in trouble.

• You are versatile and quick to learn: curious about the business model, operational process, data, and financial structure behind a transaction, and comfortable moving between categories, suppliers, and business models.

• You embrace technology: you treat AI tools as a baseline skill, stay curious about new tools, and bring ideas forward.

• You stay composed under pressure: professional, collaborative, and credible across functions, with disciplined follow-through.

• You champion company Values: you handle sensitive matters with discretion and integrity and give and receive feedback constructively.

• You are flexible and growth-minded: open to learning and willing to pitch in beyond your primary scope to meet evolving business needs.

• At least 18 years of age
• Legally authorized to work in the United States

Travel:
Travel Required (Yes/No): No

DOT Regulated:
DOT Regulated Position (Yes/No): No
Safety Sensitive Position (Yes/No): No

Total Target Cash Earnings Opportunity: $141,680 - $255,530National Base Pay Range: $123,200 - $222,200

The Total Target Cash Earnings Opportunity represents the expected total cash compensation for this role at target performance, combining base salary and annual incentive opportunity. Actual earnings may be higher or lower depending on individual performance and overall company results. 

The base pay range reflects the compensation component of this opportunity. The candidate’s actual pay will be based on various factors, such as work location, qualifications, and experience, so the actual starting pay will vary within this range. To find the pay range for this role based on hiring location, https://paylookup.t-mobile.com/paylookup?reqID=REQ380431&paradox=1

At T-Mobile, employees in regular, non-temporary roles are eligible for an annual bonus or periodic sales incentive or bonus, based on their role. Corporate employees are eligible for a year-end bonus based on individual and/or company performance and which is set at a percentage of the employee’s eligible earnings in the prior year. Certain positions in Customer Care are eligible for monthly bonuses based on individual and/or team performance. The incentive component included in the Total Target Cash Earnings Opportunity reflects target performance. Actual earnings included in the Total Target Cash Earnings Opportunity reflect target performance; actual payouts may vary. 

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