Group Product Compliance Lead - Regional Platform

Wise
London
Workplace: HybridFull timeGBP 125,000 - 179,000 annuallyFunction: Legal, Risk & ComplianceSkills: ["Communication","Stakeholder alignment","Influencing","Operating in ambiguity","Cross-functional collaboration"]

Own product compliance strategy for core payment flows across Wise, translating complex multi-jurisdictional regulatory obligations into actionable product and engineering decisions. Partner with product, legal, compliance, and engineering to keep regulatory controls accurate, scalable, and globally consistent—covering customer eligibility, identity verification (KYC), entity allocation, and evolving payment messaging standards. Represent Wise to regulators and auditors and help define assurance frameworks that confirm controls work.

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Group Product Compliance Lead - Regional Platform

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Job Summary

Own product compliance strategy for core payment flows across Wise, translating complex multi-jurisdictional regulatory obligations into actionable product and engineering decisions. Partner with product, legal, compliance, and engineering to keep regulatory controls accurate, scalable, and globally consistent—covering customer eligibility, identity verification (KYC), entity allocation, and evolving payment messaging standards. Represent Wise to regulators and auditors and help define assurance frameworks that confirm controls work.
Location: London
Workplace: Hybrid
Employment Type: Full time · Permanent
Job Function: Legal, Risk & Compliance
Seniority: Sr. Manager level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Own compliance strategy and delivery for core product domains such as payment processing and verification standards.
  • •Translate multi-jurisdictional regulatory obligations into actionable product and engineering decisions.
  • •Represent Wise’s compliance position to regional regulators, internal forums, and external auditors where required.
  • •Build and maintain global relationships across product, policy, and compliance to keep obligations consistent and current.
  • •Define and scale assurance frameworks to ensure Wise’s controls are working.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: GBP 125,000 - 179,000 annually

Key Requirements

  • •Deep fintech compliance experience, with a track record working directly in product teams (not just alongside them).
  • •Comfortable reading codebases, participating in engineering discussions, and contributing in architecture reviews.
  • •Ability to translate regulatory text into product specifications while maintaining both context threads.
  • •Strong communication skills to synthesize complex regulatory requirements into clear positions for non-specialists.
  • •Experience influencing decisions across legal, engineering, and product at senior levels.
Experience:FintechPayment processingMulti-jurisdictional complianceKYC
Skills:CommunicationStakeholder alignmentInfluencingOperating in ambiguityCross-functional collaboration
Languages:English
Tech Stack:SEPASWIFTKYCIdentity verification

Company Brief

Wise
Wise (formerly TransferWise) is a London-based fintech that provides low-cost international money transfers, multi-currency accounts and payment infrastructure for individuals and businesses worldwide.
Industry: Payments
Company Size: Enterprise (1,001+ employees)
Revenue: USD 1B+
Growth: Public Company
Valuation: Public Company (Market Cap in USD)
Funding: IPO / Publicly Listed
Headquarters: London, United Kingdom
Founded: 2011
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