Senior Product & Regulatory Counsel
Location
New York, United States
Work type
Remote
Employment
Full Time
Experience
7-10 years
Compensation
$175.5K - $252K per year
Posted
20h ago
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Summary
Mews is seeking a Senior Product & Regulatory Counsel to act as a trusted legal partner for Product, Engineering, Commercial, and Compliance teams. This role involves deeply embedding with product development, shaping strategy, and providing clear legal judgment on complex decisions, particularly within regulated fintech environments across the US and internationally.
Let's get into the specifics. It’s impossible to capture every nuance of a role – especially at a rapidly growing company like Mews – but if we had to distil it into a job description (which we do because this is a job description), it would be this:
Mews is looking for a senior product counsel to serve as a trusted legal partner to Product, Engineering, Commercial and Compliance as we continue to scale our SaaS and fintech offering in the US and internationally.
This is a senior, high-trust role for a lawyer who wants to operate at the centre of product development rather than at the margins. We are looking for someone who is deeply embedded with product teams, shapes strategy and execution in real time, and brings clear legal judgement to complex decisions early enough to influence outcomes.
You will support both SaaS and fintech products, with a particular focus on regulated fintech environments. The right person will combine strong product instinct with sound regulatory judgement, and will be comfortable advising on complex financial products across partner-led models, cross-border propositions, regulatory change and supervisory scrutiny.
Your mission, should you choose to accept it:
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
You’ll be a great fit if you bring a few of the below with you:
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
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
Updated 20h ago
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7-10 years
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$175.5K - $252K per year
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Mews
Team size
Growing team
Location
New York, United States
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Senior Product & Regulatory Counsel
New York, United States • Full Time