Group Product Compliance Lead Regional Platform

This is a first-line product compliance role. You will work directly alongside engineers and product managers to translate regulatory obligations into product decisions that are scalable defensible and globally consistent.

Your mission

Keeping pace with how money moves. As Wise expands into new markets corridors and payment schemes the rules governing how transfers are processed and who can send them become increasingly complex. You will own the compliance strategy for core product flows that determine customer eligibility: how we verify where customers live how we handle customers who move between countries and how we allocate customers to the right licensed entity. These arent abstract compliance questions they manifest directly in product screens data models and engineering decisions. You will need to go deep quickly surface the so what and drive alignment between legal product and engineering teams across multiple markets.

Strengthening the infrastructure for regulatory accountability. Wise is continuously evolving the regulatory infrastructure that helps us demonstrate compliance across our licences markets and products. This platform connects our regulatory obligations to the policies controls Youll help shape and strengthen this capability by partnering with engineers product teams and compliance specialists to ensure regulatory obligations are accurately reflected in our systems and translated into appropriate controls. Youll also help make this scalable.

Staying ahead of global payment standards. Wise operates across dozens of payment schemes and licensed entities worldwide. As international standards for payment messaging and data requirements evolve you will own the compliance thread for how Wises product and data infrastructure keeps pace working closely with data engineering scheme specialists and regional legal counsel to ensure our payment flows are accurate complete and consistently applied across every market we operate in.

As Group Product Compliance Lead you will:

• Own compliance strategy and delivery across all of Wise for core domains such as payment processing obligations to control mapping and verification standards

• Translate complex multi-jurisdictional obligations into actionable product and engineering decisions

• Represent Wises compliance position to regional regulators internal forums and external auditors where required

• Build relationships with product policy and compliance teams globally to maintain a consistent and current view of obligations across markets

• Help define and scale the assurance frameworks that give Wise confidence its controls are working

We are looking for someone who:

• Has deep fintech compliance experience with a track record of working directly in product teams not alongside them

• Is comfortable in codebases engineering discussions and architecture reviews; not intimidated by technical complexity

• Can move between regulatory text and product specifications without losing either thread

• Is a strong communicator who can synthesise regulatory complexity into a clear position for non-specialists

• Is comfortable operating in ambiguity; capable of defining structure where none exists yet

• Has a track record of influencing decisions across legal engineering and product at senior levels

• Has familiarity with payment scheme rules (SEPA SWIFT domestic real-time rails)

• Has experience with multi-entity or multi-licence compliance structures

• Has working knowledge of KYC and identity verification frameworks and the product decisions that flow from them

In return this role offers:

• Real ownership: you ship things you dont just advise

• No regional or domain siloing; genuine cross-functional ownership spanning product engineering and compliance

• The chance to shape infrastructure and frameworks that will operate at company scale affecting every Wise customer and licensed entity

• An exceptional cross-functional team across product engineering compliance risk and banking

Additional Information :

For everyone everywhere. Were people building money without borders without judgement or prejudice too. We believe teams are strongest when they are diverse equitable and inclusive.

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Inclusive teams help us live our values and make sure every Wiser feels respected empowered to contribute towards our mission and able to progress in their careers.

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Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Full-time

Experience: years
Vacancy: 1