# Senior Product and Regulatory Counsel (APAC & Middle East)

**Company**: Nium
**Location**: Singapore
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Legal
**Industry**: Finance

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## Description

Nium’s Global Legal Team works at the intersection of financial technology and the law. We're looking for a Senior Product and Regulatory Counsel (APAC & Middle East), based in our Singapore office, with deep familiarity with payments, digital assets, banking, and financial services laws.

You will be the Lead Counsel covering the APAC & Middle East regions and will be a deeply embedded and strategic advisor to many teams across Nium. You’ll help design and build new payments products and services, provide strategic advice about Nium’s legal and regulatory obligations, and help drive our expansion into new markets.

Responsibilities:

- Partner closely with global product, engineering, and business teams to advise on financial services regulations, payments, digital assets, market expansion, and licensing, data privacy, and intellectual property.

- Advise on engagement with key regulators, including MAS in Singapore; HKMA and C&ED in Hong Kong; JFSA and KLFB in Japan; the RBI in India, and others.

- Drive market expansion and licensing efforts across Singapore, Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Japan, and the Middle East.

- Work collaboratively to support Nium’s legal and regulatory structure, strategic partnerships, and client agreements.

- Help build scalable and effective processes, using AI and legal technology, to accelerate legal review.

Requirements:

- 8 years of experience as a qualified lawyer in an in-house legal team, top law firm, and/or government agency.

- Deep familiarity with payments, fintech, digital assets, or financial services laws and regulations, especially throughout APAC.

- Highly collaborative, inquisitive, and solutions-oriented, with prior experience advising on product development at fast-moving technology companies.

- Exceptional verbal and interpersonal communication skills, able to build strong relationships with business colleagues, and simplify legal concepts.

- Genuine curiosity, passion for work, and enjoyment of a fast-paced working environment.

- Humble with low-ego, strong desire to grow and learn, and deep commitment to teammates.

Benefits:

- Competitive salaries

- Performance bonuses

- Equity for specific roles

- Medical coverage

- 24/7 employee assistance program

- Generous vacation programs

- Flexible hybrid working environment (3 days per week in the office)

- Role-specific training

- Internal workshops

- Learning stipend

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## Skills

### Required
- payments
- digital assets
- financial services laws
- regulatory compliance

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