# EMEA Regulatory Counsel

**Company**: Stripe
**Location**: Dubai
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Legal
**Industry**: Finance

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## Description

Stripe is seeking an experienced EMEA Regulatory Counsel to join its team in Dubai, UAE. The successful candidate will provide strategic guidance on Stripe's financial regulatory obligations across EMEA.

Responsibilities:

- Advise internal stakeholders on regulatory issues with a focus on UAE

- Counsel Product Legal and Compliance teams on regulatory requirements for Stripe products

- Support teams in developing policies and procedures to meet regulatory requirements

- Be a proactive partner and trusted advisor to cross-functional teams in EMEA

- Monitor developments in financial regulations to provide proactive guidance

- Advise on advocacy in connection with contemplated and proposed laws, rules, and regulations

- Collaborate with business and legal teams to address regulatory issues efficiently

- Identify and evaluate business and legal risks, and find creative ways to mitigate them

- Develop and work with stakeholders on regulatory engagement strategies

- Maintain and contribute to internal legal resources and repositories

Requirements:

- Minimum 6+ years experience practicing as a qualified lawyer in the UAE, with a focus on payments and fintech regulation

- Excellent skills in issue spotting, risk assessment, and problem-solving

- Strong strategic thinking capabilities

- Excellent written and verbal communication skills

- Integrity and sound judgment

- Ability to distill complex legal advice in a clear and convincing manner

- Capable of multitasking and working effectively and independently under pressure

- Strong interpersonal skills and the ability to build consensus across groups

- Experience of working closely with financial regulators in the UAE and wider region

Preferred Qualifications:

- Experience in advising on financial regulation pertaining to money movement, crypto, and payments

- Prior experience in payments, fintech, banking, and familiarity with associated regulatory issues

- Experience advising on crypto legal issues and regulations

- Fluency in both Arabic and English

- Experience navigating UAE onshore and offshore regulatory frameworks

- Experience advising on market entry and licensing requirements across the wider MENA region

## Skills

### Required
- payments regulation
- fintech regulation
- UAE regulatory framework
- financial regulations
- risk assessment
- problem-solving
- strategic thinking
- communication skills

### Nice to have
- crypto regulation
- money movement regulation
- MENA region regulatory experience
- market entry and licensing requirements
- Arabic language skills

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