Regulatory Operations Lead
Paris, Paris, France On-site
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About the role
We're hiring a Regulatory Operations Lead to own how Merge runs its regulatory and licensing operations day to day, as an individual contributor working directly across the leadership team. This is a broad, hands-on role: you'll manage our regulatory relationships and filings, drive our multi-jurisdiction licensing roadmap, keep commercial contracts moving, and build the operational processes that keep all of it running smoothly as we scale into new markets. This isn't a purely legal or advisory seat. You'll be operating across regulatory, compliance, and commercial workstreams, coordinating with internal teams and external counsel, and making sure nothing slips through the cracks. It suits someone who wants ownership over a fast-moving, cross-functional area at a regulated fintech rather than a narrow specialist mandate.
What you'll bring
- Experience in financial services, payments, or crypto/digital assets regulation;
- Direct experience with financial regulators, either in-house at a regulated payments institution or in a supervisory/advisory capacity;
- Strong operational and project-management instincts, comfortable owning processes and deadlines across multiple workstreams, not just advising on them;
- Track record negotiating commercial contracts with financial institutions or enterprise clients;
- Comfort working across multiple regulatory regimes simultaneously;
- Prior exposure to cross-border licensing in other jurisdictions;
- Experience taking a company through a new market license from scratch;
- Ability to operate as an individual contributor in a fast-moving startup, with no team to lean on and high ownership;
- Fluent French and English;
- Qualified lawyer, equivalent is a plus;
- Experience with stablecoins, digital assets, or payment rails specifically is a plus.