Senior Legal Counsel – AI and Digital assets

Overview

As Senior Legal Counsel at PPRO, you will guide the product lifecycle from idea to launch, turning complex legal and regulatory questions into actionable guidance. You’ll shape governance and processes to anticipate future challenges while addressing current needs. You’ll advise on AI, digital assets, data protection, and cross-border considerations to enable global product scaling. You will collaborate closely with compliance, risk, and engineering teams to embed legal thinking into go-to-market plans and product design. This role offers ownership, cross-functional impact, and the chance to influence payments regulation at scale.

Pay / Benefits

• Hybrid working
• 28 days holiday
• GBP 1,000 learning and development budget
• AXA medical insurance
• 5% matching Royal London pension
• Enhanced family leave

Responsibilities

• Advise on the full product lifecycle for payment products globally, including digital assets and stablecoins
• Review and negotiate commercial and partner agreements related to new product development
• Draft and maintain customer-facing legal documents for new products and AI features
• Advise on regulatory aspects of product features, onboarding of payment methods, and market expansion
• Provide guidance on digital asset regimes, e-money, and cross-border transfer rules
• Act as go-to expert on AI, including governance, liability, data use, and contracting for AI tools
• Horizon scan legal developments and implement required changes
• Collaborate with compliance and risk to embed legal thinking in lifecycle and GTM planning
• Improve legal governance processes and leverage AI tools to increase efficiency
• Address ad hoc legal questions from IP to corporate law and disputes
• Liaise with external counsel and translate advice for the wider business

Key requirements

• 8+ years in financial services, payments, and/or technology with regulatory, privacy and commercial experience
• Hands-on experience with payments and digital assets, including stablecoins; understanding AI’s impact on products and regulation
• Strong knowledge of UK and EU financial regulation, including payment services regulation
• Experience advising on data protection/privacy (UK GDPR, EU GDPR, cross-border transfers)
• Comfortable with technical detail and working with engineers
• Ability to operate in ambiguity and drive mitigation through to completion
• Ability to simplify complex legal/technical issues for non-legal audiences
• Strong ownership, foresight, and collaborative, team-oriented mindset

• strong communication
• ownership
• collaboration
• AI governance and agentic AI
• digital assets and stablecoins
• data protection and privacy (UK GDPR, EU GDPR)

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