Senior Product & Regulatory Counsel, Fintech
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MewsFintech / SaaS
To be eligible for this position, you must be based in one of the following US states: Arizona, California, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Kansas, Massachusetts, Montana, Nevada, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Oregon, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, Wisconsin.Full-TimeSenior
Salary$175,500 — $252,000 USD
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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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