Founding Fintech Legal & Regulatory Lead

Founding Fintech Legal & Regulatory Lead FOUNDING FINTECH LEGAL & REGULATORY LEAD ABOUT GRAND Grand is the first purpose-built fintech for the B2B economy. We’ve raised over $5m to build the most intelligent fintech platform for businesses that operate in the built world. Our first product, Grand Profile, helps businesses understand whom they extend credit to, payment terms, unsecured loans, etc. – surfacing early signals of risk and growth so they can act sooner. Over time, this trust network becomes the foundation for an intelligent payment network where businesses can extend credit, move money, and transact with confidence. Grand is founded and funded by a group of entrepreneurs, investors and researchers who’ve built, sold, worked in, and invested in global fintech, commerce, and AI companies, including Mastercard Labs, Stripe, Shopify, Airwallex, American Express, WhenThen, Loveable, and others. THE ROLE We’re hiring a Founding Fintech Legal & Regulatory Lead to help define and drive the legal and regulatory infrastructure at the core of Grand. This is a high-impact individual contributor role with real ownership. You’ll work AI-first by default, using modern AI tooling to accelerate legal analysis, licensing workflows, regulatory interpretation, submissions, and internal decision-making without sacrificing judgment. The goal is to help Grand navigate complex regulatory environments across the UK, EU, and beyond — enabling the company to launch products, secure licenses, enter markets, and scale responsibly. This is not a pure compliance role and not a policy-maintenance role. You’ll be driving licensing, legal structuring, regulatory engagement, scheme onboarding, and supervisory strategy in production, influencing how Grand operates as a modern fintech institution. Judgment matters as much as legal knowledge. Knowing where to push, where to simplify, and where regulatory flexibility actually exists is part of the job. You’ll sit close to the founders, product, operations, and external legal partners, shaping how Grand engages regulators, schemes, banking partners, and supervisory bodies. This is a seat at the founders’ table, helping define how Grand scales responsibly in a regulated, built-world market. Your mission will be to build a repeatable regulatory and legal execution function across licensing, jurisdictional expansion, and regulated product infrastructure. That’s the wedge. Everything else — governance expansion, policy layering, operational scale-out — comes after, and only when the regulatory foundations underneath it work. We’d rather have one licensing pathway that compounds than five fragmented initiatives that create drag. WHAT YOU’LL DO - Own and execute Grand’s legal and regulatory strategy across the UK, EU, and future markets - Lead relationships with regulators, supervisory bodies, schemes, banking partners, and external legal counsel - Drive licensing applications, registrations, agent structures, scheme onboarding, and supervisory engagement end-to-end - Work directly with external counsel to shape regulatory submissions, legal structures, product reviews, and supervisory responses - Translate legal and regulatory constraints into clear operational, product, and technical direction - Ensure regulatory and legal guidance is commercially practical, proportionate, and aligned with how the product actually works - Partner closely with product and engineering so regulation is embedded into workflows, not bolted on - Anticipate regulatory change and supervisory risk before it becomes operational drag - Define and maintain Grand’s regulatory roadmap, including jurisdictional expansion and licensing strategy - Build AI-assisted workflows for regulatory tracking, approvals, documentation, horizon scanning, and internal coordination - Support commercial, partnership, and infrastructure negotiations where legal or regulatory complexity exists - Move fast without being reckless, u ... (truncated, view full listing at source)