Lead Counsel, Payments

2 weeks ago

Singapore Rippling Full time $150,000 - $200,000 per year
Lead Counsel, Payments & Regulatory (APAC)

About Rippling

Rippling gives businesses one place to run HR, IT, and Finance. It brings together all of the workforce systems that are normally scattered across a company, like payroll, expenses, benefits, and computers. For the first time ever, you can manage and automate every part of the employee lifecycle in a single system.

Take onboarding, for example. With Rippling, you can hire a new employee anywhere in the world and set up their payroll, corporate card, computer, benefits, and even third-party apps like Slack and Microsoft 365—all within 90 seconds.

Based in San Francisco, CA, Rippling has raised $1.4B from the world's top investors—including Kleiner Perkins, Founders Fund, Sequoia, Greenoaks, and Bedrock—and was named one of America's best startup employers by Forbes.

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About the role

We are looking for an experienced Lead Counsel, Payments and Regulatory to lead our global payments platform in the APAC region. This is an exciting opportunity to build the legal and payments infrastructure to support our cutting-edge financial cloud product stack. You will work closely with our business and product teams to develop and execute on a wide range of payments-related initiatives, creating a first-in-kind platform that spans numerous industries. You will also help drive the compliance culture at Rippling across our product and operations. The ideal candidate loves working in a fast-paced environment, enjoys the regulatory challenge of innovative payments and banking systems, takes ownership over initiatives, has excellent analytical and communication skills, and fundamentally believes that lawyering need not be boring.

What you will do

  • Design and set up the legal infrastructure for payments around the globe, with a particular emphasis on the APAC region
  • Act as a legal advisor to the business on our financial and payments products, including product counseling, regulator interactions, licensing, advertising, and other legal issues
  • Serve as the primary escalation point for our payment product teams, helping to embed legal and compliance values in all new product and business initiatives

What you will need

  • 6 years experience in a payments legal role (money transmission, e-money, lending, banking as a service, or general fintech)
  • Strong understanding of the payments ecosystem and regulatory environment in jurisdictions such as Singapore and Australia, including payment and AML/CFT regulations
  • Experience interacting with regulatory bodies is highly desirable
  • A strong interest in payments and regulatory counseling and experience advising on legal issues in highly regulated industries
  • Experience building trusted relationships and an ability to collaborate with senior stakeholders
  • Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
  • Excellent communicator with the ability to break down complex requirements into easy-to-understand and practical advice
  • Ability to work with multiple deadlines under pressure
  • Entrepreneurial mindset, self-starting, and comfortable working in a highly dynamic and complex global organisational environment

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