[Hiring] Associate General Counsel, Product & Regulatory @Mews

Role Description

As Associate General Counsel, Product & Regulatory, you'll own how legal and regulatory judgement shows up inside Mews' product and fintech work, leading a specialist pod of counsel and paralegals and reporting to the Chief Legal Officer. Mews builds tightly integrated SaaS and fintech products, and the hard questions (money transmission, e-money, embedded finance, partner-bank and BaaS models, cross-border operating decisions) need someone who helps product teams work through them in practice, not from a distance. This is a chance to set the bar for how a scaling hospitality-fintech platform builds regulated products responsibly and at pace.

• Own the Product & Regulatory legal remit across Mews' SaaS and fintech environment, setting priorities, operating norms and the quality bar for legal support to Product and Engineering.
• Embed with Product and Engineering as a hands-on product counsel, surfacing legal, regulatory and commercial trade-offs early and resolving them pragmatically across the release lifecycle.
• Provide senior legal guidance on regulated product design, launch and scaling, including payments, embedded finance, money transmission, partner-bank and BaaS models, and cross-border propositions.
• Build and manage a small specialist pod of counsel and paralegals, coaching them into strong product partners and building the playbooks, templates and working norms that let teams move faster without adding risk.
• Use AI to reshape how legal support is delivered into product development, improving speed, quality and consistency across the pod.
• AI Fluency Level 3: Redesign how the pod delivers legal support to product, using AI across intake, issue-spotting, comparison and first-draft playbooks; build approaches the rest of the team can follow, including prompt quality and review discipline; and apply strong legal judgement about when AI output is incomplete, unreliable or too risky to rely on without deeper review.

Qualifications

• Significant in-house legal experience in technology, SaaS or fintech, with strong evidence of working closely with product teams rather than reviewing their work after the fact.
• Strong fintech and regulatory exposure, ideally in payments, embedded finance or money transmission, including releasing regulated products and handling partner-bank or BaaS models.
• Working knowledge of financial-crime regulation (AML, BSA, KYC, KYB) applied to product and operational decisions, plus experience with supervisory expectations, audits, investigations or regulatory change.
• A hands-on builder mentality with clear examples of processes, guidance or tooling you've created, and sound commercial judgement that balances legal risk with business outcomes rather than defaulting to "no."
• People-leadership experience, ideally managing lawyers and/or paralegals, and AI Fluency Level 3 or the equivalent hands-on experience using AI in day-to-day legal work.

Requirements

• Experience acting as true product counsel rather than purely commercial counsel.
• Experience in earlier-stage or scaling environments rather than highly siloed large-enterprise settings.
• Experience leading a regional or specialist legal team while staying close to product and business execution.

Benefits

• Unlimited paid holiday (yes, really)
• Participation in our company share program
• Paid parental leave (6 months fully paid for primary caregivers, 2 months for secondary, available after one year of service)
• An annual Learning budget of €300 (and more for high performers) to support your development
• Monthly "EDGE" time to Explore, Develop, Grow, and Elevate yourself
• A work from anywhere policy with flexibility to work abroad for a few weeks each year
• Relocation options, available after one year
• Flexible, hybrid working options
• A home office setup budget to make your workspace your own and a monthly work-from-home allowance
• Claude tokens, so you can automate workflows and build smarter, more efficient ways of working