Regulatory Counsel, High-Risk

20 hours, 33 minutes ago
Full-time
Senior
Legal
Finix

Finix

Finix is a leading payments technology provider that offers a unified, all-in-one payments platform for businesses to accept and send payments online or in person, helping them increase revenue and reduce costs.

Diversified Financial Services
51-200
Founded 2015
$126M raised

Description

  • Advise Product and Sales on product designs, features, deal structures, and prospective customers.
  • Analyze regulatory requirements for new sectors, business models, and structures before launch.
  • Own regulatory strategy for gaming and gambling, including jurisdictional analysis, licensing requirements, and merchant eligibility.
  • Embed regulatory requirements into product design, user flows, disclosures, and terms from concept through launch.
  • Support Sales and Partnerships on complex deals, regulatory diligence, structuring, and agreements.
  • Translate laws, card network rules, and sponsor bank requirements into guidance, position papers, and FAQs.
  • Monitor U.S. and Canadian regulatory, legislative, and network-rule developments and advise on business impact.
  • Support sponsor bank and card network relationships, including program approvals and due diligence.
  • Partner with Compliance on policies, licensing, filings, audits, and regulatory exam readiness.
  • Manage outside counsel and prepare legal analysis for senior leadership, the board, banks, and partners.

Requirements

  • Juris Doctor or equivalent and active bar admission in good standing in at least one U.S. state.
  • 5+ years of regulatory-focused legal experience in payments, fintech, banking, gaming, or another highly regulated industry.
  • Ability to analyze complex, multi-jurisdictional regulatory frameworks for products, customers, and business models.
  • Experience advising Product, Sales, or Business Development teams, ideally on product launches or market entry.
  • Working knowledge of U.S. payments and financial-services regulation, including money transmission, FinCEN, BSA/AML, consumer protection, and privacy.
  • Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to provide clear recommendations amid ambiguity.
  • Experience leading complex cross-functional work with senior stakeholders.
  • Experience with gaming and gambling regulation, including gaming authorities, vendor licensing, sweepstakes, or prediction markets (preferred).
  • Familiarity with Canadian regulatory and provincial gaming frameworks, card network rules, sponsor bank requirements, or fintech-bank partnerships (preferred).
  • Experience in high-risk merchant verticals or at a card network, processor, acquirer, sponsor bank, or financial-services regulator (preferred).

Benefits

  • Base salary range of $140,000-$220,000 per year, depending on location, experience, skills, and education.
  • Equity package.
  • Benefits package.
  • Remote work option or San Francisco-based role.

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