LATAM Expansion Lead

Nium, the Leader in Real-Time Global Payments Nium, the leading global infrastructure for real-time cross-border payments, was founded on the mission to deliver the global payments infrastructure of tomorrow, today. With the onset of the global economy, its payments infrastructure is shaping how banks, fintechs, and businesses everywhere collect, convert, and disburse funds instantly across borders. Its payout network supports 100 currencies and spans 190+ countries, 100 of which in real-time. Funds can be disbursed to accounts, wallets, and cards and collected locally in 40 markets. Nium's growing card issuance business is already available in 34 countries. Nium holds regulatory licenses and authorizations in more than 40 countries, enabling seamless onboarding, rapid integration, and compliance – independent of geography. The company is co-headquartered in San Francisco and Singapore. The Role We’re looking for a driven LATAM Expansion Lead to own Nium’s growth across Latin America. You will lead new market entry across priority countries; from regulatory strategy and licensing to partner onboarding and launch readiness. In addition, you will deepen Nium’s presence in its existing markets – Mexico and Brazil, by evolving our product capabilities through licensing projects and banking partner engagement.  This is a high-impact role collaborating closely with Legal, Compliance, Product, Treasury, Tech, Ops, and Commercial teams to deliver successful market launches. What You’ll Own Work with the Head of Global Expansion to define and execute Nium’s LATAM expansion roadmap. For each market in the roadmap you will: -Complete cost / benefit analysis and identify the optimal route to market based on regulatory environment, banking ecosystem and Nium’s product requirements. -Lead licensing strategy and regulatory engagement in each target market, owning end to end the application and authorisation process. -Establish local entities and create a hiring plan based on license requirements and product launch roadmap. -Build and manage key local banking and payment ecosystem partnerships to enable Nium’s products in each market.  -Work closely with central product teams to scope local requirements and feed these into the product roadmap. -Track budgets, risks, timelines, and report on a periodic basis to Head of Global Expansion and the wider senior leadership at Nium. What We’re Looking For: Nium is a payments firms operating primarily in the B2B space. Its products cover payouts and cross-border transfers for Financial Institutions and Corporate clients, such as payroll and platform service providers. In addition, Nium operates a card issuance product with a particular focus on the travel booking sector (both airlines and hotels). You should have:  -Deep experience in fintech, payments, banking, or financial services, with a familiarity of one of the above product verticals. -Proven experience launching or expanding into LATAM markets.  -Strong understanding of regional regulatory frameworks covering payments, electronic money and stablecoins. -Experience working with regulators, banks, or payment networks.  -Strong commercial and project management skills.  -Fluency in English and Spanish required; Portuguese a bonus. You Are: Nium is a fast moving and flat organisation. We have a small but growing presence in LATAM. To be successful in this role you should be comfortable operating in ambiguity and taking ownership of decision making. In addition, you should be: -Hands-on with a “whatever it takes” attitude  -Execution-focused and highly accountable  -Comfortable navigating regulatory complexity  -Commercially minded and data-driven  -Able to influence across global and regional teams  -Excited to build in a fast-moving, high-growth environment Location: This role is based in Mexico City. Travel is required and essential for this role.  Join us and help shape the future of payments across Latin America! ... (truncated, view full listing at source)