Senior Product & Regulatory Counsel
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MewsSaaS and Fintech
Czechia; Spain; United Kingdom; United StatesFull-TimeSenior
SalaryPay range location A $175,500 — $252,000 USD; Pay range location B £105,000 — £190,000 GBP
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Job Details
- Required Skills
- SaaS
Requirements
- Significant in-house legal experience in technology, SaaS, fintech or another fast-moving, multi-geography environment
- Strong evidence of working closely with product teams rather than reviewing work at the end of the process
- Fintech and regulatory exposure, ideally in payments, embedded finance, e-money or another licensed setting
- Familiarity with licensing structures such as EMI licences in Europe, US MTL frameworks, BaaS models and partner bank relationships
- Working knowledge of AML/BSA, KYC, KYB and broader fintech regulatory issues such as money transmission and lending
- Strong commercial judgement and a track record of balancing legal risk with business outcomes
- A practical, hands-on builder mentality with examples of what you’ve improved, created or operationalised yourself
- Comfort operating in ambiguity and helping teams move quickly with good judgement
- Strong stakeholder skills and credibility with senior leaders, while still being happy to work at operating-detail level
Responsibilities
- Partner directly with Product and Engineering teams on new products, features, launches and changes
- Act as a true product counsel and product champion, helping teams spot and triage issues throughout the design and release lifecycle
- Advise on product, fintech, payments and commercial legal questions across Mews’ SaaS and financial services environment
- Help teams navigate legal, regulatory and commercial trade-offs early and pragmatically
- Draft, review and negotiate a broad mix of commercial, product, partner and regulated-services agreements
- Support licensed and regulated products across areas such as payments, embedded finance, money transmission, lending, partner bank models and cross-border expansion
- Apply working knowledge of financial crime topics such as AML/BSA, KYC and KYB to product and licensing decisions
- Help the business navigate regulatory audits, supervisory expectations and the realities of operating regulated products at scale
- Build practical guidance, playbooks, templates and ways of working that help teams move faster without creating unnecessary risk
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