Regulatory Operations Lead — FinTech & Crypto

Merge Money Ltd.; Paris; Vor Ort; EUR 90.000 - 130.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

Merge is seeking a Regulatory Operations Lead to own regulatory and licensing operations day to day as an individual contributor across the leadership team. You will manage regulatory relationships and filings and drive the multi-jurisdiction licensing roadmap as Merge scales into new markets.

This role spans regulatory, compliance, and commercial workstreams, coordinating with internal teams and external counsel to keep everything on track.

Qualifikationen

• Experience in financial services, payments, or crypto/digital assets regulation.
• Direct experience with financial regulators, in-house or supervisory capacity.
• Strong operational and project-management instincts across multiple workstreams.
• Track record negotiating commercial contracts with financial institutions or enterprise clients.
• Comfort working across multiple regulatory regimes simultaneously.
• Prior exposure to cross-border licensing in other jurisdictions.
• Experience taking a company through a new market license from scratch.
• Ability to operate as an individual contributor in a fast-moving startup.
• Fluent French and English.
• Qualified lawyer or equivalent is a plus.
• Experience with stablecoins, digital assets, or payment rails is a plus.

Aufgaben

• Regulatory Operations & License Expansion
• Serve as day-to-day liaison to regulators for licenses in France and other jurisdictions
• Track and manage regulatory filings, reporting obligations, and supervisory correspondence against deadlines
• Advise on regulatory implications of new products, corridors, and partnerships
• Drive Merge's multi-jurisdiction licensing roadmap as the company expands into new markets
• Evaluate build-vs-acquire approaches to new licenses and make recommendations
• Build relationships with local counsel, regulators, and licensing partners in target markets
• Own regulatory research and go/no-go analysis for new geographies
• Serve as a Director of the licensed EMI entity, under ACPR framework
• Commercial & Contracts
• Negotiate and draft agreements with enterprise clients, banks, and infrastructure partners
• Structure deal terms and support commercial negotiations directly alongside BD and partnerships
• Manage outside counsel relationships across jurisdictions
• Operations & Cross-Functional Coordination
• Build and maintain operational processes, trackers, and calendars for licensing work
• Coordinate across product, compliance, and business development to reflect regulatory requirements
• Advise leadership on risk across product, partnerships, and fundraising
• Build out legal and regulatory infrastructure (templates, playbooks, approval workflows)

Kenntnisse

Regulatory experience

Financial services

Cross-border licensing

Project management

Commercial contracts

Regulatory research

Multiregulatory regimes

Bilingual French/English

Ausbildung

Law degree or equivalent

Jobbeschreibung

Merge is seeking a Regulatory Operations Lead to own regulatory and licensing operations day to day as an individual contributor across the leadership team. You will manage regulatory relationships and filings and drive the multi-jurisdiction licensing roadmap as Merge scales into new markets.

This role spans regulatory, compliance, and commercial workstreams, coordinating with internal teams and external counsel to keep everything on track.