Regulatory Counsel, High-Risk

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🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $140k - $220k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

⚖️ Legal Counsel / General Counsel

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Finix

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51 - 200 employees

Founded 2015

💼 Consulting

📦 Logistics

📣 Marketing

Consulting • Logistics • Marketing

Finix is a payment processor that makes it easy for software platforms, marketplaces, and individual businesses of all sizes to accept payments and send money while maximizing revenue and reducing costs. Trusted by startups and publicly traded companies alike, Finix helps build and scale payment infrastructure. Headquartered in San Francisco, it specializes in payment systems, payment facilitation, risk and underwriting, payment infrastructure, APIs, fraud solutions, and merchant management.

📋 Description

• Serve as the primary regulatory advisor to Product and Sales, providing practical guidance on product designs, new features, deal structures, and prospective customers • Lead legal and regulatory analysis for new sectors, business models, and structures, including ISV, marketplace, and merchant-of-record models • Perform market and regulatory research and set minimum requirements before launch • Own regulatory strategy for the gaming and gambling vertical, including state-by-state and provincial analysis of iGaming, sports wagering, sweepstakes, and prediction markets • Analyze vendor licensing and registration requirements and conditions for supporting merchants in each jurisdiction • Partner with Product from concept through launch to embed regulatory requirements into product design, user flows, disclosures, and terms • Support Sales and Partnerships on complex deals, including regulatory diligence, structuring guidance, and agreement review • Translate laws, card network rules, and sponsor bank requirements into guidance, position papers, and FAQs • Monitor and interpret regulatory, legislative, and network rule developments in the U.S. and Canada • Advise the business on regulatory developments and their impact • Support sponsor bank and card network relationships on product, program, and sector-related matters • Work with Compliance on policies, procedures, licensing applications and renewals, regulatory filings, and audit and exam readiness • Engage and manage outside counsel on specialized matters • Prepare decision-ready legal and regulatory analysis for senior management, the board, sponsor banks, and partners • Report to the Head of Legal and collaborate with Product, Sales, Partnerships, and Compliance

🎯 Requirements

• Juris Doctor (or equivalent) and active bar admission in good standing in at least one U.S. state • 5+ years of legal experience with a substantial regulatory focus, gained at a law firm, in-house, or in government, in payments, fintech, banking, gaming, or a similarly regulated industry • Ability to analyze complex, multi-jurisdictional regulatory frameworks and apply them to real products, customers, and business models • Experience advising product, sales, or business development teams directly, ideally on new product launches or new market entry • Working knowledge of U.S. payments and financial services regulation, including money transmission licensing, FinCEN, BSA/AML requirements, consumer protection, and privacy • Exceptional written and verbal communication, with the ability to turn ambiguity into clear plans, trade-offs, and decisions • Experience leading complex, cross-functional work with multiple dependencies and senior stakeholders • Business-minded and solutions-oriented • Comfortable with ambiguity in emerging regulatory sectors • Curious and fast-learning • Proactive and detail-oriented • Collaborative • Experience with gaming and gambling regulation, including state and tribal gaming authorities, vendor licensing, sweepstakes and promotional law, and prediction market or emerging-framework matters is nice to have • Familiarity with Canadian frameworks (FINTRAC, RPAA, PIPEDA, Quebec Law 25) and provincial gaming regulation is nice to have • Experience with card network rules (Visa, Mastercard, Interac, Discover) and sponsor bank program requirements is nice to have • Knowledge of the fintech-bank partnership model and bank third-party risk expectations is nice to have • Experience at a card network, processor, acquirer, sponsor bank, or financial services regulator is nice to have • Experience with high-risk merchant verticals such as nutraceuticals, CBD, wellness, or digital products and services is nice to have

🏖️ Benefits

• Equity • Benefits