The Role

We’re hiring a Fintech Regulatory Affairs Lead to own and drive Grand’s regulatory strategy across the UK, EU, and beyond.

This is a high-impact individual contributor role with real authority. You’ll work AI-first by default, using intelligent tools to accelerate analysis, regulatory tracking, submissions, and internal decision-making. The goal is to reduce handoffs, improve clarity, and increase surgical focus on where time and effort are spent.

You’ll be responsible for how Grand engages with regulators, banks, schemes, external legal partners, and internal teams, translating complex regulatory reality into clear, executable direction. This is not a policy-writing or purely legal role. It’s about judgment, momentum, and building credibility at speed.

You’ll sit close to the founders, builders, and other operational partners, shaping regulatory outcomes through modern workflows rather than heavyweight processes. This is a seat at the founders’ table, helping build a financial institution designed for how regulation actually works today.

What You’ll Do

• Own and execute Grand’s regulatory strategy across the UK, EU, and future markets

• Lead relationships with regulators, supervisory bodies, banks, schemes, and external legal partners

• Act as the primary driver for licensing, registrations, agent structures, regulatory notifications, and supervisory engagement

• Work directly with external counsel to shape regulatory submissions, legal structures, and supervisory responses

• Translate regulatory and legal constraints into clear product, operational, and technical decisions

• Ensure regulatory and legal guidance is practical, proportionate, and aligned with how the product actually works

• Partner closely with product and engineering so regulation is designed in, not bolted on

• Anticipate regulatory change and supervisory risk before it becomes a blocker

• Define and maintain Grand’s regulatory roadmap, including jurisdictional expansion and license strategy

• Build and operate AI-supported regulatory workflows for monitoring, documentation, horizon scanning, and approvals

• Move fast without cutting corners, knowing where flexibility exists and where it doesn’t

Must Have

• Read law (LLB, LLM, JD, or equivalent legal qualification)

• Proven experience working directly with fintech regulation in the UK and/or EU

• Hands-on experience engaging with regulators, supervisory bodies, and external legal counsel

• Strong understanding of how regulation, legal structure, and product design intersect

• Comfortable acting as a senior IC with real ownership and accountability

• Ability to turn regulatory and legal ambiguity into clear, pragmatic direction

• Confident working with law firms without outsourcing thinking or decision-making

• Practical experience using AI-powered in-house legal and regulatory platforms for tracking, submissions, policy management, and documentation

• Experience designing or operating internal regulatory workflows supported by AI and automation

• Clear communicator who can explain complex regulatory and legal constraints plainly

• Bias toward progress and resolution, not defensive positioning

• High integrity, sound judgment, and calm under pressure

Nice to Have

• Experience with EMI agent structures, BIN sponsorship, or scheme onboarding

• Experience in B2B fintech or infrastructure-led businesses

• Exposure to cross-border regulatory and legal structuring

• Background spanning regulatory affairs, product, operations, or payments

• Time spent inside a regulator, supervisory authority, or specialist fintech law firm

Salary and Benefits

• Excellent Salary: Competitive and reflective of the responsibility this role carries

• Equity Options: Meaningful ownership in a long-term company

• Hybrid Work: At least 3 days in our Dublin office

• Extended Remote Work on Request: Outcomes matter more than optics

• Builders, Not Spectators: Work with a team that respects regulation and knows how to ship

Who You Are

You’re a rare mix of regulatory operator, legal translator, and builder. You respect regulation and the law, but you don’t hide behind them. You know where judgment applies, when to lean on counsel, and when to make the call.

You think in systems, not checklists. You care about credibility, trust, and long-term positioning as much as speed. You move decisively, communicate clearly, and take responsibility for outcomes.

You thrive in ambiguity, dislike theatre, and take pride in helping companies do difficult things properly.

You’re based in Dublin or within comfortable commuting distance (or ready to be), and ready to help build a financial institution the right way.

If this sounds like you, let’s talk.