Experteer Overview As Senior Legal Counsel, you will support Monzo's payments business, including digital assets and emerging payment technologies, acting as a strategic legal partner across product, risk, and engineering teams. You will help navigate a fast-evolving regulatory landscape to enable responsible innovation and scalable growth. You'll collaborate with senior lawyers and cross-functional teams to provide practical legal and commercial guidance. This role offers impact in shaping compliance-forward product development within a dynamic fintech environment.
Pay / Benefits
- Advise product teams on legal and regulatory matters relating to digital assets and emerging payments technologies
- Develop efficient, scalable processes to support rapid growth while ensuring regulatory compliance
- Provide training and knowledge sharing on laws impacting Monzo and its customers
- Act as a sole or primary legal adviser to product managers when needed, identifying risks and proposing solutions
- Collaborate with the Director of Legal for Payments & Business Banking, General Counsel, and UK Legal team to align on digital assets guidance
- Advise on evolving regulatory frameworks for digital assets across UK and EU
- Support cost management and vendor relationships to ensure high-quality legal support within budget
- Assist in improving workflow tools and technology to streamline legal operations
- Engage with cross-functional stakeholders (Product, Risk & Compliance, FinCrime, Fraud, Operations) to embed compliance by design
- Support international growth initiatives in collaboration with product and legal teams
- Tasks: Minimum 5 years post-qualification experience in law
- Recent experience with digital assets and emerging financial technologies
- Proven ability to advise on UK financial services laws and regulatory regimes as applied to digital assets
- Strong risk assessment and problem-solving skills with a commercial mindset
- Proactive, collaborative, and able to work in a fast-paced environment
- Interest in banking-technology intersection and transformation of consumer finance
- Ability to work across multiple senior stakeholders and teams
- Key requirements: incentive awards tied to performance
- Relocation support to the UK
- Flexible working hours
- Learning budget of 1000 per year
- London office-based role
- Comprehensive benefits package (unspecified)
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Senior Legal Counsel, Digital Assets and Payments in London employer: Monzo Bank Limited
Monzo is an exceptional employer for those seeking to make a significant impact in the fintech sector. With a strong focus on innovation and compliance, employees benefit from a collaborative work culture that encourages professional growth through training and knowledge sharing. The London-based role offers flexible working hours, a generous learning budget, and relocation support, making it an attractive opportunity for legal professionals passionate about digital assets and emerging payment technologies.
