**Description** **You Lead the Way. We’ve Got Your Back.** With the right backing, people and businesses have the power to progress in incredible ways. When you join Team Amex, you become part of a global and diverse community of colleagues with an unwavering commitment to back our customers, communities and each other. Here, you’ll learn and grow as we help you create a career journey that’s unique and meaningful to you with benefits, programs, and flexibility that support you personally and professionally. At American Express, you’ll be recognized for your contributions, leadership, and impact—every colleague has the opportunity to share in the company’s success. Together, we’ll win as a team, striving to uphold our company values and powerful backing promise to provide the world’s best customer experience every day. And we’ll do it with the utmost integrity, and in an environment where everyone is seen, heard and feels like they belong. **Join Team Amex and let's lead the way together,** by being a member of a dynamic and high-performing General Counsel’s Organization practice group that provides support to American Express businesses across LAC countries, and with main responsibility for supporting various business teams in Brazil. **Qualifications** + Broad familiarity or experience in financial services legal and regulatory matters; specific experience in payment systems a plus. + Specific experience and knowledge in drafting and negotiating complex commercial agreements. + Lawyer with (4) plus years of relevant experience in multinational corporations or recognized law firms (including trainee or experience period) and enrolled under the Brazilian Bar Association (i.e. OAB). + Fully bilingual English and Portuguese. Spanish is preferable, but not mandatory. + Demonstrated competency in (i) interfacing with, influencing and advising dynamic and fast-paced business teams at all levels; (ii) agile legal analysis identifying risks, decision making, resolving novel, complex issues with a resourceful, “can-do” attitude, developing new approaches that reflect calculated risk and creativity (challenging as necessary the “status quo” and the “way it has been done before”); (iii) handling multiple tasks, taking on new responsibilities and prioritizing work in a dynamic, deadline-intensive environment; and (iv) facilitating change (vi) dealing with ambiguity and uncertainty. + Ability to understand and integrate details of business operational/systemic environment in applying legal and policy requirements. + Exceptional written and verbal communications skills; ability to communicate and relate at all levels of the organization and with external constituencies, and to drive consensus and exert influence in a cross-functional capacity. + Courageous, stands up for what is right, confronts constructively and confidently. + Self-motivated, high level of personal energy and commitment; drive to excel; motivation and ability to master diverse sets of skills, legal/regulatory areas and business strategies/operations; strong customer focus. **Qualifications** We back our colleagues and their loved ones with benefits and programs that support their holistic well-being. That means we prioritize their physical, financial, and mental health through each stage of life. Benefits include: + Competitive base salaries + Bonus incentives + Support for financial-well-being and retirement + Comprehensive medical, dental, and life insurance + Flexible working model with hybrid arrangements + Free and confidential counseling support through our Healthy Minds program + Career development and training opportunities Offer of employment with American Express is conditioned upon the successful completion of a background verification check, subject to applicable laws and regulations. **Job:** Legal **Primary Location:** Brazil-Sao Paulo-São Paulo **Schedule** Full-time **Req ID:** 25003119