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Core Competencies
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Demonstrates expertise in regulatory legal strategy for payments and digital assets across Latin America, with a strong focus on licensing, market entry, and compliance. Proficient in analyzing regulatory frameworks and providing actionable legal guidance to product teams.
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Regulatory Legal StrategyPayments RegulationDigital Assets ExperienceFluent English And SpanishIn-House Fintech Experience
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Hard Skills
Regulatory AnalysisLicensing And RegistrationMarket Entry StrategyProduct Architecture AnalysisFinancial-Services LicensingPayments ComplianceStablecoins RegulationBlockchain Financial ProductsJudgment In Regulatory MattersRegulatory Framework Development
Soft Skills
Clear CommunicationStakeholder EngagementJudgment And Decision-MakingCollaboration With Product TeamsLeadership In Legal Matters
Certifications & Qualifications
Local Bar License
Industry Keywords
FintechPaymentsCryptoDigital AssetsRegulatory LandscapeLatin AmericaCentral BanksFinancial RegulatorsMarket RegulationsSecurities Regulation
About the role
Key responsibilities & impact- Advise on regulatory legal strategy for payments, money movement, wallets, stored value, digital assets, stablecoins and related products across Latin America
- Build and maintain a country-by-country view of the regulatory perimeter, including required licenses, registrations, approvals or local regulated entities
- Lead legal analysis for entry into new markets and launches of new products, features and business models
- Work with Product and business teams to structure products in line with applicable law and propose alternative structures when needed
- Coordinate license and registration applications and support engagement with regulators, central banks and other authorities
- Manage local external counsel and synthesize their input into practical recommendations
- Create scalable frameworks, playbooks and decision trees for recurring regulatory questions
- Monitor regulatory developments and assess their strategic impact, including developments involving stablecoins, tokenized money, crypto-assets and payment infrastructure
- Brief senior legal and business leaders on complex regulatory topics in clear, concise and commercially useful terms
- Act as a generalist legal business partner for new businesses in Latin America, coordinating a holistic legal approach and supporting product-related agreements
Requirements
What you’ll need- Qualified as a lawyer, holding the local bar license in the country where you will be based
- In-house experience at a fintech, payments, crypto/digital-assets or banking company
- Experience personally handling regulatory, licensing and market-entry questions in Latin America
- Hands-on experience with payments regulation and licensing
- Experience with digital assets, crypto, stablecoins or blockchain-based financial products
- Experience analyzing and comparing regulatory regimes across several Latin American jurisdictions
- Familiarity with the South American regulatory landscape
- Understanding of how payments, banking, securities, FX and digital-asset regulation interact
- Experience obtaining or maintaining financial-services, payments or digital-asset licenses or registrations
- Experience analyzing product architectures and money flows to identify regulatory questions
- Judgment to know when to escalate, engage external counsel or regulators, and when the business can proceed
- Track record briefing senior legal and business leaders on technical regulatory topics
- Experience as a senior, autonomous legal partner to Product and business teams
- Fluent English and Spanish
- Nice to have: direct work with financial regulators or central banks, or experience at a financial-regulatory law firm, central bank or regulator
- Nice to have: experience in regulatory policy for digital assets and payments
- Nice to have: banking or credit regulatory background combined with curiosity about digital assets
- Nice to have: familiarity with additional Latin American markets
Benefits
Comp & perks- Chance of earning equity at Nubank
- Food/ Meal Card (Vale-Refeição and/or Vale Alimentação)
- Public Transportation Commuting Benefit (Vale-Transporte)
- NuCare – Psychological, Financial and Legal Assistance Program
- Life Insurance
- Medical Plan
- Dental Plan
- NuLanguage – Language Course Program
- Nucleo - Our learning platform of courses
- Extended Parental Leave
- Daycare Allowance
- Parental Consultancy
- Work-from-home Allowance
- Gym Partnerships
- 30 days of paid vacation
- Relocation Assistance Package, if applicable
- Hybrid work model bringing employees to the office at least twice a week