Director – Product and Regulatory Legal Counsel

1 Month ago • 10 Years +

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Job Description

As a Director – Product and Regulatory Counsel at Nium, you will be a strategic advisor to multiple teams, including Product, Engineering, Compliance, Bank Partnerships, and Marketing. You will be involved in designing new payments products and services, offering strategic advice on legal and regulatory obligations, and facilitating market expansion. This role entails leading engagement with key APAC regulators and providing support for legal and regulatory structures, partnerships, and client agreements. The responsibilities also encompass building processes for legal review and product launch.

Must have:

10+ years of experience as a qualified lawyer.
Deep understanding of payments, fintech, or financial laws.
Experience dealing with regulators in the APAC region.

Perks:

Competitive salaries and performance bonuses.
Medical coverage and an employee assistance program.
Generous vacation programs and a hybrid work environment.
Role-specific training and internal workshops.

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Nium, the Leader in Real-Time Global Payments

Nium, the global leader in real-time, cross-border payments, was founded on the mission to deliver the global payments infrastructure of tomorrow, today. With the onset of the global economy, its payments infrastructure is shaping how banks, fintechs, and businesses everywhere collect, convert, and disburse funds instantly across borders.

Its payout network supports 100 currencies and spans 220+ markets, 100 of which in real-time. Funds can be disbursed to accounts, wallets, and cards and collected locally in 35 markets. Nium's growing card issuance business is already available in 34 countries. Nium holds regulatory licenses and authorizations in more than 40 countries, enabling seamless onboarding, rapid integration, and compliance – independent of geography. The company is co-headquartered in San Francisco and Singapore.

We’re looking for a fast-learning and dynamic Director – Product and Regulatory Counsel, based in our Singapore office, with deep familiarity with payments, banking, and financial services laws. You’ll be a deeply embedded and strategic advisor to many teams across Nium including Product, Engineering, Compliance, Bank Partnerships, and Marketing. You’ll help design and build new payments products and services, provide strategic advice about Nium’s legal and regulatory obligations, and help drive our expansion into new markets.

Key Responsibilities:

Reporting to our Global Head of Product & Regulatory Legal, you’ll partner closely with our global product, engineering and business teams to adviseon financial services regulations, payments, consumer protection, market expansion, data privacy and intellectual property.
You’ll lead our engagement with Nium’s key regulators in APAC, including, MAS in Singapore; HKMA and C&ED in Hong Kong; JFSA and KLFB in Japan; the RBI in India, and among others.
You’ll be a leader on Nium’s Global Legal Team and will work collaboratively to support Nium’s legal and regulatory structure, strategic partnerships, and client agreements.
You’llbe an ambassador to the business for Nium’s Global Legal Team and help us stay up-to-date on applicable laws and regulations dealing with financial services.
You’ll help build scalable and effective processes for legal review and launch of new products and services.

Requirements:

You have at least 10 years of experience as a qualified lawyer in an in-house legal team, top law firm and/or government agency.
You have deep familiarity with payments, fintech, or financial services laws and regulations, especially throughout APAC, including demonstrated experienced dealing with key payments and financial services regulators in the region.
You’rehighly collaborative, are inquisitive and solutions-oriented, and have prior experience advising on product development at fast-moving technology companies.
You’re biased towards action and impact, and no task is too big or too small for you; you can roll up your sleeves and get things done.
You have exceptional verbal and interpersonal communication skills, can build strong relationships with business colleagues, and can simplify legal concepts and communicate them in easy-to-understand language.
You exhibit genuine curiosity, are passionate about your work, and enjoy a fast-paced working environment.
You’re humble with low-ego, have a strong desire to grow and learn, and have a deep commitment to your teammates.

What we offer at Nium

We Value Performance: Through competitive salaries, performance bonuses, sales commissions, equity for specific roles and recognition programs, we ensure that all our employees are well rewarded and incentivized for their hard work.

We Care for Our Employees: The wellness of Nium’ers is our #1 priority. We offer medical coverage along with 24/7 employee assistance program, generous vacation programs including our year-end shut down. We also provide a flexible working hybrid working environment (3 days per week in the office).

We Upskill Ourselves: We are curious, and always want to learn more with a focus on upskilling ourselves. We provide role-specific training, internal workshops, and a learning stipend

We Constantly Innovate: Since our inception, Nium has received constant recognition and awards for how we approach both our business and talent opportunities.

-2022 Great Place To Work Certification

-2023 CB Insights Fintech 100 List of Most Promising Fintech Companies.

- CNBC World’s Top Fintech Companies 2024.

We Celebrate Together: We recognize that work is also about creating great relationships with each other. We celebrate together with company-wide social events, team bonding activities, happy hours, team offsites, and much more!

We Thrive with Diversity: Nium is truly a global company, with more than 33 nationalities, based in 18+ countries and more than 10 office locations. As an equal opportunity employer, we are committed to providing a safe and welcoming environment for everyone.

For more detailed region specific benefits : https://www.nium.com/careers#careers-perks

For more information visit www.nium.com

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