Associate General Counsel - Mexico Operations
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BitsoFinTech, Financial Services
MexicoFull-TimeMiddle
Salary not disclosed
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Job Details
- Languages
- Spanish, English
- Experience
- 8+ years
Requirements
- Law degree and active license to practice in Mexico
- 8+ years of relevant legal experience
- Significant portion of experience focused on financial services, fintech, payments, banking, securities, or other highly regulated industries
- Strong expertise in Mexican financial regulation
- Demonstrated experience advising on regulated financial products, services, or operations
- Deep familiarity with the Mexican regulatory landscape, including CNBV, Banco de México, CONDUSEF, and related supervisory frameworks
- Proven experience advising on the legal and regulatory implications of product design, launches, operational changes, partnerships, and customer-facing flows
- Strong judgment in assessing legal and regulatory risk in fast-moving business environments
- Ability to translate legal risk into practical, commercially sound recommendations
- Experience drafting, reviewing, and negotiating commercial agreements, strategic partnerships, vendor contracts, customer terms, disclosures, and other legal documentation
- Experience handling regulatory inquiries, examinations, supervisory processes, information requests, or other interactions with Mexican authorities
- Strong working knowledge of consumer protection, data privacy, marketing review, outsourcing/vendor structures, and corporate governance matters relevant to financial services operations in Mexico
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills in Spanish and English
- High ownership mindset, strong responsiveness, and comfort operating as the primary legal point of contact for a country-level operation
- Experience supporting fintech, payments, digital assets, broker-dealer, or other innovative financial products (strong plus)
Responsibilities
- Serve as the primary legal advisor for all matters related to the Mexico operation.
- Provide legal and regulatory support across the full lifecycle of the business in Mexico.
- Advise on the legal and regulatory aspects of launching, modifying, and maintaining products and services offered in Mexico.
- Partner closely with Product, Compliance, Operations, Risk, Finance, and leadership to evaluate legal risk and enable compliant, scalable business solutions.
- Review and advise on customer-facing terms, disclosures, onboarding journeys, in-app flows, marketing materials, and communications for the Mexican market.
- Lead legal analysis for new initiatives, features, partnerships, and expansion opportunities affecting the Mexico business.
- Draft, review, and negotiate a broad range of legal agreements, including commercial agreements, vendor contracts, partnership arrangements, and local legal documentation.
- Support and manage legal aspects of relationships with regulators and authorities in Mexico, including responses to requests, inspections, visits, follow-ups, and remediation efforts.
- Advise on the impact of legal and regulatory developments in Mexico on the company’s products, processes, and operating model.
- Oversee local corporate governance and entity maintenance matters for Mexico, in coordination with internal teams and external counsel as needed.
- Support dispute management, complaints, pre-litigation matters, investigations, and other contentious issues affecting the Mexico business.
- Manage and coordinate external counsel on local law matters, ensuring high-quality, efficient, and business-oriented support.
- Contribute Mexico legal expertise to regional and global legal initiatives when local input is needed.
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