Senior Counsel, Regulatory Legal – Latin America (Payments & Digital Assets)

Location: Hybrid, with office attendance 2–3 times per week, based in Buenos Aires, São Paulo, or Bogotá.

Company

hirify.global is a digital financial platform serving customers across Brazil, Mexico, and Colombia, providing technology-driven financial products and services.

What you will do

• Advise on regulatory legal strategy for payments, money movement, wallets, stored value, digital assets, stablecoins, and related products across Latin America.
• Build country-by-country regulatory-perimeter analyses covering licenses, registrations, approvals, and regulated entities.
• Lead legal analysis for new-market entry, product launches, features, and business models, and structure products in line with applicable law.
• Coordinate licensing and registration applications and engagement with regulators, central banks, and other authorities.
• Manage local external counsel and synthesize their input into practical recommendations.
• Create scalable playbooks and decision trees, monitor regulatory developments, and brief senior legal and business leaders.

Requirements

• Qualified lawyer with a local bar license in the country of employment.
• In-house experience at a fintech, payments, crypto/digital-assets, or banking company, personally handling regulatory, licensing, and Latin American market-entry matters.
• Hands-on experience with payments regulation and licensing, plus digital assets, crypto, stablecoins, or blockchain-based financial products.
• Experience comparing regulatory regimes across several Latin American jurisdictions and familiarity with the South American regulatory landscape.
• Understanding of the interaction between payments, banking, securities, foreign exchange, and digital-asset regulation.
• Experience obtaining or maintaining financial-services, payments, or digital-asset licenses or registrations.
• Ability to analyze product architectures and money flows, identify core regulatory questions, and determine when to escalate or engage external counsel or regulators.
• Track record of briefing senior legal and business leaders with clear, actionable recommendations; experience acting as an autonomous legal partner to Product and business teams in fast-moving environments.
• Fluent English and Spanish required.

Nice to have

• Direct work with financial regulators or central banks, or experience at a financial-regulatory law firm, central bank, or regulator.
• Experience in regulatory policy for digital assets and payments.
• Banking or credit regulatory experience combined with interest in digital assets.
• Familiarity with additional Latin American markets.

Culture & Benefits

• Hybrid model with office attendance at least twice weekly on strategic collaboration days.
• Benefits in Brazil include medical and dental plans, life insurance, meal and transportation benefits, psychological, financial, and legal assistance, and 30 days of paid vacation.
• Additional benefits include equity opportunity, work-from-home allowance, extended parental leave, daycare allowance, language courses, learning resources, and gym partnerships.
• Relocation assistance may be available where applicable.
• Recruitment may use AI-enabled tools for interview transcription and analysis, while final decisions are made by human reviewers.