Director, Regulatory Legal, Americas (Hybrid)

Description:

What You'll Do:
As Director, Regulatory Legal, Americas you will play a valuable role within the global legal and compliance team and will help our rapidly growing business navigate an increasingly complex regulatory landscape. Although you will be based in San Francisco you will have multi-regional responsibility by supporting our regulatory strategy and advising on complex regulatory issues in the United States, Canada, Mexico and Brazil. You will provide regulatory legal support for all aspects of our business, including payments, card issuing, card acquiring, Yield, and our SaaS offerings. You will also actively participate in the re-invention of the in-house regulatory legal function as a scalable AI-driven function. This dynamic role is ideal for someone who enjoys wearing multiple hats and solving complex issues for our clients, is detail oriented, willing to take on challenges and changes, obsessively curious and intellectually honest, thrives on taking actions and delivering impactful results, and aims to inspire and be inspired.

This role is based in San Francisco or New York City.

Responsibilities:

• Advise internal stakeholders, including Product, Commercial and other Legal teams, on a broad range of regulatory matters throughout the Americas
• Find ways to mitigate legal and regulatory risks while progressing business objectives
• Support license maintenance activities including managing regulatory relations, requests for information, and regulatory exams
• Review and update manuals, policies and procedures to ensure compliance with laws and regulations in the regions in which AWX operates while identifying opportunities to create efficiencies
• Manage and continue to grow the regional AWX reg legal team across multiple jurisdictions
• Manage external legal counsel and consultants, ensuring high-quality, cost-effective support is aligned with A Financial Technology Company's business drivers and risk appetite
• Support and devise optimal paths to market to support A Financial Technology Company expansion activities
• Use AI to enhance the efficiency and effectiveness of our Regulatory Legal function, including using existing third party tools and supporting the Legal function in developing and deploying AI-driven workflows
• Support government relations outreach to legislators and regulatory agencies

Who You Are:
We're looking for people who meet the minimum requirements for this role. The preferred qualifications are great to have, but are not mandatory.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Juris Doctor and 10 years of post-qualification experience
• Strong regulatory experience gained in the fintech industry, reputable law firms or financial institutions
• Sound knowledge of the payments and credit card regulatory environments
• Experience managing and growing a team of lawyers
• Strong stakeholder management skills and ability to deal with a range of internal and external stakeholders
• Proactive, results-driven, and take ownership of your work
• Ability to multi-task and a team player with strong communication skills
• Strong drafting skills

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience working with stakeholders across the globe and on cross-border payments issues
• Experience advising on consumer regulatory matters
• Experience using AI, LegalTech and RegTech tools to enhance efficiency and effectiveness (bonus points for experience developing and deploying tools)
• Fluent in Spanish or Portuguese

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