Nium was founded on the mission to build the global payments infrastructure of tomorrow, today. With the onset of the on-demand economy, its single platform for global payments and card issuing is shaping how banks, fintechs, and businesses everywhere to disburse and collect funds instantly across borders. Its payout network supports 100 currencies and spans 195+ countries, 100 of which in real-time. Funds can be disbursed to accounts, wallets, and cards and collected locally in 35 markets. Nium’s growing card issuance business is already available in 34 countries. Nium holds regulatory licenses and authorizations in over 40 countries, enabling seamless onboarding, rapid integration, and compliance – regardless of geography. The company is co-headquartered in San Francisco and Singapore, with regional offices in London, Amsterdam, Hong Kong, Mumbai, Bengaluru, and Chennai.
Where do you come into the picture?
Nium’s Global Legal Team works at the intersection of financial technology and regulatory frameworks. Our work helps Nium build delightful and innovative products, understand and manage risks, and creatively navigate complexity and challenges, both external and internal.
We’re looking for a fast-learning and dynamic Product and Regulatory Counsel, based out of our San Francisco office, with familiarity in payments and financial services law to help us continue to drive innovation and accelerate our growth. In this role, you’ll be a deeply embedded and strategic advisor to our Product, Engineering, Compliance, Bank Partnerships, Marketing, and many other teams. You’ll help to design and build new payments products and services, provide strategic advice about Nium’s legal and regulatory obligations in North America and globally, and help drive our expansion into new markets.
What would a day in your life @ Nium look like?
- You’ll partner closely with our global product, engineering and business teams to advise on a range of issues including financial services regulations, payments, consumer protection, data privacy and intellectual property.
- You’ll provide legal and strategic advice about Nium’s key North American banking partners, and about our licensing and regulatory expansion.
- You’ll stay up-to-date on applicable laws and regulations dealing with financial services and other relevant areas, help to drive Nium’s strategy in response to changing regulatory environments, and provide training to business teams on relevant regulatory topics.
- You’ll work closely with other members of Nium’s Global Legal Team to support its legal and regulatory structure, strategic partnerships and client agreements.
- You’ll help build scalable and effective processes for legal review and launch of new products and services.
What we’re looking for?
- You have 8+ years of experience as a qualified lawyer in an in-house legal team, top law firm and/or government agency, and are currently licensed to practice law in at least one US state.
- You have familiarity with payments, fintech, or financial services laws and regulations (such as US money transmission laws and the regulatory oversight of bank-fintech partnerships).
- You’re highly collaborative, inquisitive, and solutions-oriented, ideally with prior experience advising on product development at fast-moving technology companies.
- You’re biased towards action and impact, and no task is too big or too small for you; you can roll up your sleeves and get things done.
- You have exceptional verbal and interpersonal communication skills, can build strong relationships with business colleagues, and can simplify legal concepts and communicate them in easy-to-understand language.
- You exhibit genuine curiosity, are passionate about your work, and enjoy a fast-paced working environment.
- You’re humble with low-ego, have a strong desire to grow and learn, and have a deep commitment to your teammates.
$220,000 – $280,000 a year
Salary ranges are dependent on a variety of factors, including skills, qualifications, experience, and geographic location. Certain roles may offer additional incentives including but not limited to equity and bonus. Your recruiter is happy to share more information about the salary range specific to your working location and other factors at any stage of the hiring process!
At Nium we center our way of work around 3 core values globally –
#KeepItSimple, #MakeItBetter and #WinItTogether.
What’s it like to be a Nium’er?
We cut through complexity, simplify at speed and operate with scale in mind.
We build innovative solutions that make our customers’ lives better.
We win in this competitive market by collaborating as one team.
For more information visit www.nium.com