Global Licensing & Regulatory Lead (Remote-First)

Affirm; Charlotte (NC); On-site; USD 146,000 - 225,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health coverage for you and dependents

Flexible Spending Wallets for tech and

Time off

Employee stock purchase plan (ESPP)

Job summary

Affirm is seeking an experienced Licensing professional to join the Legal, Compliance, and Public Affairs team. You will support state licensing, regulatory reporting, and filing obligations across the U.S. while coordinating with Legal, Compliance, Product, and Finance.

You’ll manage renewal applications, collaborate on MSB and NMLS filings, and help enhance licensing processes with AI-driven improvements. This remote-first role offers strong growth and impact.

Qualifications

• 5 years of licensing/compliance/regulatory experience ideally related to consumer financial services.
• Outstanding time management, administrative, and organizational skills.
• Proven project management, critical thinking, and analytical skills.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Humility, integrity, and a desire to be part of a small but strong, supportive team.
• Inquisitive, eager to learn, and a willingness to take ownership of projects.
• Highly focused, able to make independent decisions and work with limited supervision in a fast-paced environment.
• Comfortable operating in a fast-paced, high-growth environment where priorities shift and ambiguity is part of the landscape.

Responsibilities

• Support new product & service launches related to state licensing and reporting including money transmission, servicing/collections, lending, international expansion, etc.
• Work cross-functionally with legal, public affairs, compliance, finance, tax to meet regulatory licensing and reporting obligations
• Maintain the central repository for licensing and reporting obligations for new license types including workflows, regulatory guidance, etc.
• Collaborate with Licensing team to interpret, prepare, and submit state licensing annual reports, MSB call reports, and other regulatory obligations
• Ensure timely regulatory filings, call out any licensing issues, supervise ongoing regulatory obligations in licensing management tool
• Lead ongoing preparation of renewal applications and other forms to be filed in various licensing jurisdictions
• Collaborate on NMLS licensing, reporting, and other regulatory filings
• Analyze and develop new processes, leveraging AI, to increase efficiency within the licensing program
• Assist Department in the research and build of licensing requirements into the licensing management tool
• Coordinate with senior leadership to fulfill ongoing state licensing requirements
• Partner with team on any licensing projects and initiatives

Skills

Licensing/compliance experience

Time management

Project management

Written communication

Independent decision making

Job description

Affirm is seeking an experienced Licensing professional to join the Legal, Compliance, and Public Affairs team. You will support state licensing, regulatory reporting, and filing obligations across the U.S. while coordinating with Legal, Compliance, Product, and Finance.

You’ll manage renewal applications, collaborate on MSB and NMLS filings, and help enhance licensing processes with AI-driven improvements. This remote-first role offers strong growth and impact.