Vice President, Digital Enterprise Data Architecture Legal Counsel

About this role

About this role
 

Description

Digital Enterprise Data Architecture Legal, a sub-group within BlackRock’s Digital Enterprise Legal, is seeking an experienced, business-minded commercial transactions attorney with a focus on market data and technology to join our team. You will work with internal clients and providers globally (with primary focus on the Americas), across multiple business lines and functions in a fast-paced, cutting-edge environment to strategically support business operations within market and index data, strategic partnership and technology. You will help advance BlackRock’s modern approach to supporting our data and index strategy through partnerships and relationships with a variety of third parties, industry leaders, and innovative start-ups.

Responsibilities

Legal Analysis and Advisory:

• Conduct in-depth legal analysis of strategic partnership agreements, data and index licensing agreements, technology agreements, and other complex legal matters.
• Provide strategic advice to BlackRock’s functional and management teams, ensuring compliance with legal requirements, and with BlackRock’s standards.
• Identify and mitigate legal risks, offering practical solutions to complex legal challenges, while having a deep understanding of risk and reward balance of a transaction.

Contract Negotiation and Management:

• Lead negotiations for agreements involving data licensing, financial technology software, enterprise investment systems, and financial risk and wealth management tools.
• Structure, draft and review a variety of agreements, ensuring alignment with BlackRock’s business objectives and standard positions.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to finalize terms and conditions that protect BlackRock’s reputation and interests.

Business Development Support:

• Act as a legal partner in business and products development initiatives.
• Provide legal input during product development, including regulatory considerations, intellectual property, and risk assessment.
• Facilitate strategic decision-making by offering legal insights on potential opportunities and challenges.

Vendor and Partnership Relationships:

• Advise on strategic partnerships, joint ventures, and collaborations.
• Ensure legal compliance and risk mitigation in all external relationships.
• Participate in local, regional, and global initiatives to drive industry-leading data and technology changes to our platforms and ways of working.

Requirements

• At least 7 years of relevant experience as a commercial transactions attorney in a top-tier law firm (secondment experience a plus) or an in-house legal department.
• J.D. (US), LL.B. (UK), or equivalent law degree, and you are a holder of Cédula Profesional.
• Demonstrated proficiency in English, both spoken and written.
• Highly desirable candidate with experience in asset management or related financial industries, and corporate transactional expertise, particularly in data licensing, finance, M&A, and technology.
• Demonstrated ability to learn business requirements quickly, analyze legal and commercial risks and propose creative, business-oriented solutions while minimizing risk to BlackRock.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, including the ability to effectively and concisely communicate complex legal issues to a non-legal audience orally and in writing and be a dedicated business partner to internal stakeholders.
• Capable of both independent work and effective collaboration within a sophisticated legal team, supported by strong organizational skills, meticulous attention to detail, and the ability to manage multiple competing, and often evolving priorities and deadlines.

Our benefits

To help you stay energized, engaged and inspired, we offer a wide range of benefits including a strong retirement plan, tuition reimbursement, comprehensive healthcare, support for working parents and Flexible Time Off (FTO) so you can relax, recharge and be there for the people you care about.

Our hybrid work model

BlackRock’s hybrid work model is designed to enable a culture of collaboration and apprenticeship that enriches the experience of our employees, while supporting flexibility for all. Employees are currently required to work at least 4 days in the office per week, with the flexibility to work from home 1 day a week. Some business groups may require more time in the office due to their roles and responsibilities. We remain focused on increasing the impactful moments that arise when we work together in person – aligned with our commitment to performance and innovation. As a new joiner, you can count on this hybrid model to accelerate your learning and onboarding experience here at BlackRock.

About BlackRock

At BlackRock, we are all connected by one mission: to help more and more people experience financial well-being.  Our clients, and the people they serve, are saving for retirement, paying for their children’s educations, buying homes and starting businesses. Their investments also help to strengthen the global economy: support businesses small and large; finance infrastructure projects that connect and power cities; and facilitate innovations that drive progress.

This mission would not be possible without our smartest investment – the one we make in our employees. It’s why we’re dedicated to creating an environment where our colleagues feel welcomed, valued and supported with networks, benefits and development opportunities to help them thrive.

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BlackRock is proud to be an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer.  We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, national origin, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, protected veteran status, and other statuses protected by law.

BlackRock will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records in a manner consistent with the requirements of the law, including any applicable fair chance law.