Hybrid Legal and Compliance Manager

at PayJoy

• Job title: Legal and Compliance Manager
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Senior, Lead
• Salary: Not specified
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Quito, Ecuador

About the role

• Corporate Counsel responsible for legal guidance on contracts, compliance, and mergers for PayJoy. Ensuring legality and protection of interests during international expansion projects.

Responsibilities

• Develop and implement the company's legal strategy to support expansion in a country(ies), participating in the company’s international expansion and ensuring alignment with the global legal and compliance program.
• Provide legal services and guidance to the organization, including in matters related to product advisory, Intellectual Property protection, managing and negotiating a wide range of business contracts, labour law, company law and corporate governance, privacy, KYC/AML/Sanctions, amongst others.
• Oversee compliance with regulatory requirements, including data protection, local legislation and corporate governance. Develop and implement legal and compliance frameworks harmonized with the company’s global compliance infrastructure.
• Provide strategic advice, legal risk assessments and mitigation strategies to the business leadership and the management team. In collaboration with the executive management, manage various complex legal projects.
• Liaise with and manage relationships with external law firms across multiple jurisdictions.
• Lead dispute resolution, litigation management, and regulatory investigations when necessary.
• Support corporate structuring and any M&A activities as the company scales.
• Develop and review legal and compliance policies and procedures.
• As the business expands, hire, lead and train an effective internal L&C team.
• Contribute to the global legal department’s knowledge-sharing, policy development, and strategic initiatives, acting as a regional leader aligned with a global mandate.

Requirements

• Bachelor of Laws degree and Master ’s degree in commerce, Business Administration, Management, Law or related field.
• Admitted Legal Practitioner, minimum of 10 years of experience, with strong preference for in-house legal experience building a legal team and partnering with the business through hypergrowth or business transformation periods.
• Minimum of 5 years of relevant senior management experience, leading a function, interacting with and providing advisory to executive management.
• Strong financial services industry experience.
• Exposure to working with or within fast-growing startups and international business environments. Prior experience in a startup / tech environment is preferred.
• Excellent leadership and management skills, with the ability to communicate effectively with both legal and non-legal stakeholders.
• Proven ability to operate in a cross-border, matrixed reporting environment.
• Proven ability to analyse and solve complex legal issues.
• Strong negotiation skills.
• Strong writing skills and high attention to detail.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Ability to work independently and meet timelines.

Benefits

• 100% Company-funded health insurance for employees and immediate family members
• Life insurance
• Dental plan
• Phone finance, Headphone, home office equipment and wellness perks.
• Individual retirement plan 3%
• 20 days of vacations
• $2,000 USD annual Co-working Travel perk
• $2,000 USD annual Professional Development perk