Associate General Counsel, Product & Regulatory
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MewsHospitality Fintech
US, UK or EU consideredFull-TimeSenior
Salary252,000 - 270,000 USD per year
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Job Details
- Required Skills
- SaaS
Requirements
- Significant in-house legal experience in technology, SaaS or fintech.
- Strong evidence of working closely with product teams rather than reviewing work after the fact.
- Strong fintech and regulatory exposure, ideally in payments, embedded finance or money transmission.
- Experience releasing regulated products and handling partner-bank or BaaS models.
- Working knowledge of financial-crime regulation (AML, BSA, KYC, KYB) applied to product and operational decisions.
- Experience with supervisory expectations, audits, investigations or regulatory change.
- Hands-on builder mentality with clear examples of processes, guidance or tooling created.
- Sound commercial judgement that balances legal risk with business outcomes.
- People-leadership experience, managing lawyers and/or paralegals.
- AI Fluency Level 3 or equivalent hands-on experience using AI in day-to-day legal work.
Responsibilities
- Own the Product & Regulatory legal remit across Mews' SaaS and fintech environment, setting priorities, operating norms and the quality bar for legal support to Product and Engineering.
- Embed with Product and Engineering as a hands-on product counsel, surfacing legal, regulatory and commercial trade-offs early and resolving them pragmatically across the release lifecycle.
- Provide senior legal guidance on regulated product design, launch and scaling, including payments, embedded finance, money transmission, partner-bank and BaaS models, and cross-border propositions.
- Build and manage a small specialist pod of counsel and paralegals, coaching them into strong product partners and building the playbooks, templates and working norms that let teams move faster without adding risk.
- Use AI to reshape how legal support is delivered into product development, improving speed, quality and consistency across the pod.
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