[Hiring] Senior Product & Regulatory Counsel @Mews

Role Description

Mews is looking for a senior product counsel to serve as a trusted legal partner to Product, Engineering, Commercial and Compliance as we continue to scale our SaaS and fintech offering in the US and internationally. This is a senior, high-trust role for a lawyer who wants to operate at the centre of product development rather than at the margins.

You will support both SaaS and fintech products, with a particular focus on regulated fintech environments. The right person will combine strong product instinct with sound regulatory judgement, and will be comfortable advising on complex financial products across partner-led models, cross-border propositions, regulatory change and supervisory scrutiny.

Your mission, should you choose to accept it:

• Partner directly with Product and Engineering teams on new products, features, launches and changes
• Act as a true product counsel and product champion, helping teams spot and triage issues throughout the design and release lifecycle
• Advise on product, fintech, payments and commercial legal questions across Mews’ SaaS and financial services environment
• Help teams navigate legal, regulatory and commercial trade-offs early and pragmatically
• Draft, review and negotiate a broad mix of commercial, product, partner and regulated-services agreements
• Support licensed and regulated products across areas such as payments, embedded finance, money transmission, lending, partner bank models and cross-border expansion
• Apply working knowledge of financial crime topics such as AML/BSA, KYC and KYB to product and licensing decisions
• Help the business navigate regulatory audits, supervisory expectations and the realities of operating regulated products at scale
• Build practical guidance, playbooks, templates and ways of working that help teams move faster without creating unnecessary risk

Qualifications

• Significant in-house legal experience in technology, SaaS, fintech or another fast-moving, multi-geography environment
• Strong evidence of working closely with product teams rather than reviewing work at the end of the process
• Fintech and regulatory exposure, ideally in payments, embedded finance, e-money or another licensed setting
• Familiarity with licensing structures such as EMI licences in Europe, US MTL frameworks, BaaS models and partner bank relationships
• Working knowledge of AML/BSA, KYC, KYB and broader fintech regulatory issues such as money transmission and lending
• Strong commercial judgement and a track record of balancing legal risk with business outcomes
• A practical, hands-on builder mentality with examples of what you’ve improved, created or operationalised yourself
• Comfort operating in ambiguity and helping teams move quickly with good judgement
• Strong stakeholder skills and credibility with senior leaders, while still being happy to work at operating-detail level

Requirements

• Location A = USA
• Location B = UK

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