Group Compliance Lead – Regional Platform

Overview

In this role you drive compliance for Wise’s core product flows, translating multi‑jurisdictional obligations into practical product and engineering decisions. You will partner with engineers, product managers, and regulators to ensure scalable, consistent compliance across markets and payment schemes. You’ll help strengthen and scale regulatory controls and assurance frameworks, keeping pace with evolving global standards. You join a cross‑functional team to shape how regulatory obligations map onto products and data infrastructure, impacting every Wise customer.

Responsibilities

• Own compliance strategy and delivery across core domains such as payment processing, obligations to control mapping and verification standards
• Translate complex, multi‑jurisdictional obligations into actionable product and engineering decisions
• Represent Wise’s compliance position to regional regulators, internal forums, and external auditors where required
• Build relationships with product, policy, and compliance teams globally to maintain a consistent and current view of obligations across markets
• Help define and scale the assurance frameworks that give Wise confidence its controls are working

Key requirements

• Deep fintech compliance experience with direct involvement in product teams
• Comfort in codebases, engineering discussions, and architecture reviews
• Ability to move between regulatory text and product specifications
• Strong communicator capable of simplifying regulatory complexity for non‑specialists
• Comfort operating in ambiguity and creating structure where none exists
• Track record of influencing decisions across legal, engineering, and product at senior levels
• Familiarity with payment scheme rules (SEPA, SWIFT, domestic real‑time rails)
• Experience with multi‑entity or multi‑licence compliance structures
• Working knowledge of KYC and identity verification frameworks and related product decisions

• strong communication
• cross‑functional collaboration
• ability to simplify complex topics
• fintech compliance
• regulatory translation to product/engineering
• knowledge of payment schemes

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