About the Team:
PIPO is our Global Payments Business, playing a crucial role in the monetization of our products while operating in a highly regulated financial services environment. Given the complexity of the regulatory landscape, we require experienced legal professionals with deep expertise in payments, financial services regulation, and compliance.
We are seeking an experienced Global Payments/Financial Services Legal Counsel to provide strategic commercial legal advice and ensure compliance across PIPO’s payments and financial services operations in the Americas region, with focus in Latin America.
This role is pivotal in advising on complex regulatory and commercial matters, structuring compliant business models, and supporting the development of innovative payments and financial services solutions while ensuring adherence to AML, KYC, and other key regulatory frameworks.

Key Responsibilities:
- Focused on commercial work, but also advises on a range of issues including financial services regulation (e.g. Consumer/merchant financing, purchase protection, etc), consumer protection, KYC, risk assessment/compliance related to the financial services businesses worldwide.
- Structure, draft, and negotiate a wide range of agreements with our various partners supporting the financial services businesses.
- Actively collaborate with a wide variety of internal stakeholders, including product, engineering, compliance, marketing, business development, and risk on a range of issues related to product development and commercialization of financial services products and services.
- Work closely with colleagues across the global legal team to advise on general issues in connection with the launch of projects or programs in the destination countries/regions.
- Help build scalable and effective processes for legal review and launch of new features and products.
- Stay up-to-date and serve as the subject matter expert of financial service regulations, including AML, KYC and KYB and other ancillary topics related to financial services.
- Participate as a proactive business partner for senior managers and build a trusted advisor relationship.