Vice President, Attorney Enterprise

New York, NY$235kPosted Jun 24, 2026
Company Profile: Morgan Stanley is a leading global financial services firm providing a wide range of investment banking, securities, investment, and wealth management services. The Firm's employees serve clients worldwide, including corporations, governments, and individuals from more than 1,200 offices in 43 countries. In the Legal & Compliance division, we assist the Firm in achieving its business objectives by facilitating and overseeing the Firm’s management of legal, regulatory and franchise risk. What you’ll do in the role: Morgan Stanley Services Group, Inc. is seeking a Vice President, Attorney Enterprise in New York, New York to advise on global legal and regulatory requirements, trends, and developments for a broad range of technology and data-related matters, including artificial intelligence, emerging technologies, recordkeeping, electronic communications, social media, intellectual property, cybersecurity, privacy, data protection, outsourcing, cloud computing, and operational resilience. Provide strategic legal counsel on the structuring, use, deployment and maintenance of technologies within the firm, ensuring compliance with applicable technology laws and regulations across US, EU, APAC, and other major jurisdictions. Advise on global legal and regulatory obligations for records retention, balancing litigation and discovery risk with cross-border requirements. Review technology applications and systems, including productivity and collaboration tools with electronic communications capabilities to determine archiving requirements and regulatory scope. Act as global lead for the development and implementation of firmwide social media governance, including acceptable use, policies, processes, standards, and the set-up of new social media programs and corporate social media accounts. Lead global advocacy efforts with industry groups and regulators, and support regulatory enquiries and investigations, regarding recordkeeping policies and rulemaking initiatives. Provide strategic legal input on acquisitions, post-acquisition integration, divestitures, and related matters involving data, recordkeeping, and technology use. Draft and negotiate client and vendor agreements and create relevant house positions and templates involving technology and data, including artificial intelligence, software, analytics, recordkeeping, electronic communications, and social media platforms. Advise on the Firm’s artificial intelligence strategy, deployments, and governance, including the establishment of guiding principles and compliance frameworks, user guidelines, terms and conditions, consent language, disclaimers and disclosures. Advise stakeholders on issues relating to the development and integration of artificial intelligence applications into Firm products and services, including enterprise and platform risk and appropriate mitigation strategies. Advise on firmwide enterprise technology and data governance policies, procedures, and training programs. Collaborate with global Business Units, Coverage Legal colleagues and Technology, Sourcing, Risk and Compliance partners to resolve complex technology and data-related legal issues. Build and maintain strong relationships with internal and external clients, stakeholders and partners, across supported businesses globally. Telecommuting permitted up to 1 day per week. What you’ll bring to the role: -Requires a Master’s in Law, Legal Studies, or a related field -Requires three (3) years of experience in the position offered or three (3) years as a Vice President, Director, Legal & Compliance, Tech & Data Legal Counsel, or a related role. \- Requires Three (3) years of experience with the following skills: * Technology and data-related in-house legal experience at a Global Systemically Important Financial Institution (G-SIFI); * Advising multijurisdictional technology and data-related laws, including emerging technologies, intellectual property, cybersecurity, privacy, data...

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