Global Legal Associate: Fintech and Compliance
RemoFirst is transforming the way businesses hire and manage global teams. Our mission is to enable Freedom of Work by providing an all-in-one global HR platform that simplifies hiring, compliance, payroll, and benefits management. We partner with some of the world’s most innovative companies, including Fortune 500 businesses and leading startups.
We are a small but strong team of 200+ people (and growing) hyper-focused on delivering a world-class platform and unparalleled service with our industry-leading partnerships.
As Global Legal Associate, Fintech & Compliance, you'll be the legal partner to our Product, Engineering and Finance teams on everything that moves money: payroll funding, contractor payouts, cross-border payments, deposits and FX. You'll get involved early, turn regulation into clear product requirements and help us launch quickly without creating regulatory risk. You'll also help run the fintech compliance programme that keeps those products sound once they're live.
What you'll do
Product:
- Work with Product and Engineering from discovery through launch on payments, payroll and payout features.
- Assess how money flows should be structured, for example whether a flow triggers licensing requirements (money transmission, e-money or payment services) and how to meet or design around them.
- Turn regul
