Commercial Legal Director, Mobility & Payments

About Team / Role
The Legal Director for Mobility will be responsible for supporting, and managing direct reports in support of, WEX’s Mobility lines of business on complex commercial transactions and product development and launches in the Americas, including providing strategic and tactical advice to WEX’s commercial, digital, and marketing teams and engaging collaboratively with finance, operations, compliance, and other corporate function groups, as well as external advisers such as outside counsel. This position will positively contribute to the execution of the Legal Department strategy by playing a key role in process improvement initiatives and partnering with Mobility business leaders to solve complex legal matters.
How You'll Make an Impact
The Legal Director for Mobility will:
Role Summary: Serve as a key legal partner and senior advisor for WEX Mobility businesses across the Americas. This role combines strategic counsel, hands-on commercial drafting and negotiations, product life-cycle support, and team leadership to drive business growth while effectively mitigating risk for the company.
Core Responsibilities:
Strategic Legal Counsel & Leadership
Cross-Functional Legal Collaboration: Collaborate with colleagues in other areas of the Legal Department to identify risks and provide comprehensive legal advice to the Mobility lines of business
Team Management: Lead, mentor, and manage a team of legal professionals, overseeing work output to ensure risk-appropriate assessments and high-value legal support.
Executive Partnership: Cultivate strong advisory relationships with Mobility executives and cross-functional leaders across Product, Operations, Risk, Compliance, and Finance.
Department Strategy: Support the Legal Leadership Team to set and execute strategic initiatives.
Outside Counsel Management: Engage, instruct and oversee outside counsel and their work product.
Commercial Transactions & Business Integration
Contract Negotiation: Draft, review, and negotiate complex commercial agreements—including customer credit, card program, reseller, marketing, referral, and technology contracts.
Growth Support: Drive legal due diligence and integration for M&A activities, support high-stakes RFP responses, and review marketing initiatives.
Process Optimization: Identify and lead process improvements across the team and the Legal Department, and apply industry best practices to commercial contracting, and creating and updating contract templates and negotiation playbooks.
Product Development & Operations
Product Life Cycle Support: Deliver solution-oriented guidance from initial product inception through commercial launch and ongoing technical evolution.
Terms & Governance: Draft and maintain product-related terms, including application and API terms of use, integration terms, and website terms of service.
Risk & Dispute Management: Proactively identify, manage, and escalate business risks and guide team members in doing the same; manage pre-litigation disputes and contractual queries from customers or partners.
Experience You'll Bring
Education: J.D. required
Experience: 10 years of legal experience, ideally with in-house experience; licensed in at least one U.S. state
Experience in payments and/or financial services industries and related laws and regulations
Extensive experience in structuring, drafting and negotiating a wide range of complex commercial transactions (both sales and buy sides), including those for financial services, digital payment, technology, and with the public sector
Understanding of the legal and practical components of a product life cycle and experience in providing legal advice throughout the cycle
Experience in managing and supervising others
Experience with legal matter management system, contract lifecycle management systems, and AI tools and capabilities, with a keenness to experiment and incorporate AI into daily workflows
Excellent verbal and written communication and interpersonal skills
Excellence in resourceful problem solving, detailed analysis, and issue resolution
Excellent ability to understand complex commercial and product issues and business metrics
Effective organizational, multi-tasking, and prioritization skills
Collaborative and can work as part of a team, while also being an independent self-starter
Ability to successfully lead process improvement initiatives that drive efficiencies impacting the legal team and the organization
Proactive in pursuit of continuous improvement, learning new skills, and addressing clients’ business needs with practical solutions
The base pay range represents the anticipated low and high end of the pay range for this position. Actual pay rates will vary and will be based on various factors, such as your qualifications, skills, competencies, and proficiency for the role. Base pay is one component of WEX's total compensation package. Most sales positions are eligible for commission under the terms of an applicable plan. Non-sales roles are typically eligible for a quarterly or annual bonus based on their role and applicable plan. WEX's comprehensive and market competitive benefits are designed to support your personal and professional well-being. Benefits include health, dental and vision insurances, retirement savings plan, paid time off, health savings account, flexible spending accounts, life insurance, disability insurance, tuition reimbursement, and more. For more information, check out the "About Us" section.
Pay Range: $195,000.00 - $223,800.00