Strategic Senior Counsel, LATAM Payments & Digital Assets

Nubank; Tandil; Ibrido; ARS 185.448.000 - 278.173.000; Tempo pieno

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Descrizione del lavoro

Nubank is seeking a Senior Counsel, Regulatory Legal – Latin America (Payments & Digital Assets) to steer regulatory strategy for our payments and digital-asset products across LATAM. You will define licensing needs, engage regulators, and partner with Product and risk teams to scale compliant offerings.

Based in Argentina or Latin America with fluent English and Spanish, you will lead cross-market analysis, develop scalable playbooks, and brief senior leaders on complex regulatory topics while

Competenze

• In-house fintech or payments company experience with licensing and market-entry in LATAM.
• Hands-on with payments regulation, digital assets, stablecoins or blockchain-based financial products.
• Experience comparing regulatory regimes across several LATAM jurisdictions.
• Strong understanding of payments, banking, securities, FX and digital-asset regulation.
• Experience obtaining financial-services licenses or registrations.
• Proven ability briefing senior leaders on technical regulatory topics.
• Autonomous senior partner to Product and business teams in fast-moving environments.
• Fluent English and Spanish.

Mansioni

• Advising on regulatory legal strategy for payments, money movement, wallets, stored value, digital assets, stablecoins and related products across Latin America.
• Building and maintaining a country-by-country view of the regulatory perimeter: which activities require licenses, registrations, approvals or local regulated entities.
• Leading the legal analysis for entry into new markets and for the launch of new products, features and business models.
• Working with Product and business teams to structure products in line with applicable law, and proposing alternative structures when the initial model hits a regulatory obstacle.
• Coordinating license and registration applications (payments, financial services, virtual assets) and supporting engagement with regulators, central banks and other authorities, including on novel issues.
• Managing local external counsel while remaining accountable for synthesizing their input into a practical recommendation.
• Creating scalable frameworks, playbooks and decision trees so recurring questions are answered consistently across markets.
• Monitoring regulatory developments and separating what materially affects our strategy from general noise, and anticipating where regulation is heading on stablecoins, tokenized money, crypto-assets and new payment infrastructure.
• Briefing senior legal and business leaders on complex regulatory topics in clear, concise and commercially useful terms.
• Acting as a generalist legal business partner for new businesses in Latin America, coordinating a holistic legal approach, including support on agreements related to our products.

Conoscenze

Bar license

In-house fintech

Payments regulation

Digital assets

Latin America

Licensing experience

Regulatory strategy

English & Spanish

Descrizione del lavoro

Nubank is seeking a Senior Counsel, Regulatory Legal – Latin America (Payments & Digital Assets) to steer regulatory strategy for our payments and digital-asset products across LATAM. You will define licensing needs, engage regulators, and partner with Product and risk teams to scale compliant offerings.

Based in Argentina or Latin America with fluent English and Spanish, you will lead cross-market analysis, develop scalable playbooks, and brief senior leaders on complex regulatory topics while