Responsibilities
- Own the global licensing pipeline by maintaining a single source of truth for all active and upcoming license expansions globally, covering banking, payments, wealth, and crypto across multiple jurisdictions
- Track every milestone, deadline, and dependency in each licensing process, surfacing risks early and driving resolution across teams
- Build and manage a structured project plan for each licensing workstream, ensuring accountability across product, legal, finance, and operations stakeholders
- Coordinate with external counsel and local advisors in each jurisdiction, managing deliverable quality, timeline, and cost
- Translate regulatory requirements into actionable workstreams for product, engineering, operations, finance, and legal teams, owning follow-through on each
- Draft and structure submissions, policy documents, regulatory responses, and internal materials with rigour and precision
- Coordinate preparation for regulatory submissions, implementation tables, and go-live audits, ensuring each team is ready and all materials are of the highest standard
- Act as the connective tissue between global teams and in-market General Managers or licensing leads, ensuring alignment and removing blockers
- Design and continuously improve ARQ’s internal systems, templates, and playbooks for managing licensing processes at scale across multiple jurisdictions
- Develop frameworks for evaluating new license requirements as ARQ enters new markets or launches new products
- Monitor regulatory developments across key jurisdictions, identifying licensing implications early and advising leadership proactively
- Support the maintenance and renewal of existing licenses, ensuring ongoing compliance with license conditions and regulatory expectations
Requirements
- 3–6 years of experience in a high-performance environment: MBB management consulting, or an early leadership role at a high-growth startup
- Exceptional structured problem-solving and analytical skills: you break complex, ambiguous situations into clear plans and drive them to completion
- Outstanding written and verbal communication; you can synthesise complexity into precise, compelling documents and presentations for senior audiences
- Proven project management and organisational ability: you run multiple high-stakes workstreams in parallel without dropping details
- Strong learning velocity and intellectual curiosity; you pick up new domains quickly and operate confidently across legal, regulatory, financial, and technical subject matter
- High ownership mentality with a bias for action: you don’t wait to be told what to do and you hold yourself and others accountable for outcomes
- Comfort operating in fast-moving, early-stage environments with limited structure and high ambiguity
Nice to Have
- Exposure to financial services, fintech, or regulatory environments, whether through consulting engagements, direct roles, or coursework
- Experience working across multiple jurisdictions or geographies simultaneously
