Head of Licensing and Regulatory Authorisations
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About the Role
Lead global licensing strategy and regulatory authorisations, ensuring compliance and stakeholder engagement across regions, with expertise in regulatory frameworks.
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Responsibilities
- Design and implement a unified global licensing strategy, ensuring consistency across regional approaches
- Work closely with regional licensing personnel to assess regulatory pathways and evaluate market feasibility
- Oversee and guide the preparation, submission, and management of licensing applications and regulatory authorisation processes
- Serve as the central point of coordination for licensing and regulatory authorisation activity across all regions
- Act as a senior representative in regulatory engagements where global coordination or executive level involvement is required
- Coordinate with regional teams to ensure understanding of local regulatory requirements for operational readiness
- Maintain global oversight of regulatory authorisation conditions, ensuring local compliance with global policies
- Lead responses to cross regional regulatory queries or supervisory reviews related to authorisation activities
- Work with regional personnel to conduct regulatory feasibility assessments for new markets and product expansions
- Lead and mentor the global regulatory and licensing team, including regional leads and supporting personnel
Requirements
- Deep multi jurisdictional licensing expertise
- Exceptional stakeholder management skills
- Understanding of the regulatory environment pertaining to the digital asset/stablecoin industry
- Experience leading a global regulatory and licensing team
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Role Overview
- Tether and its affiliated entities (e.g. Bitfinex) are searching for an organized self starter to join our Regulatory and Licensing team as Head of Licensing and Regulatory Authorisations.
- The successful candidate is someone with an understanding of the regulatory environment pertaining to the digital asset industry / stablecoin industry, and who is excited by the opportunity to apply their existing legal and / or regulatory experience in an exciting and dynamic business environment.
- The Head of Licensing and Regulatory Authorisations will lead the development and execution of our global authorisations strategy across key jurisdictions, working through a geographically distributed team of regional regulatory affairs and licensing teams.
- This role is responsible for securing and maintaining regulatory approvals required for the company's operations, ensuring alignment with shifting regulatory landscapes, and enabling sustainable market expansion.
- As a senior leader within the Regulatory Affairs & Licensing function, you will collaborate closely with regional licensing personnel, legal, compliance, product, and executive leadership to drive licensing initiatives end to end.
- You will report to the Vice President of the Regulatory Affairs and Licensing division.
Responsibilities
- Licensing Strategy & Execution: Design and implement a unified global licensing strategy, ensuring consistency across regional approaches.
- Work closely with regional licensing personnel to assess regulatory pathways, evaluate market feasibility, and prioritise jurisdictions.
- Oversee and guide the preparation, submission, and management of licensing applications and / or other regulatory authorisation processes, in collaboration with regional teams.
- Ensure alignment between regional licensing efforts and global business priorities.
- Regional Coordination & Stakeholder Management: Serve as the central point of coordination for licensing and regulatory authorisation activity across all regions, ensuring standards, documentation, and approaches remain cohesive.
- Provide direct support, guidance, and escalation oversight to regional licensing personnel.
- Align regulatory authorisation efforts with regulatory affairs leads to coordinate regulatory engagement strategies across regions.
- Regulatory Engagement: Act as a senior representative in regulatory engagements where global coordination or executive level involvement is required.
- Support regional teams in interactions with local regulators, offering strategic guidance and ensuring consistent messaging.
- Operational Readiness & Governance: Coordinate with regional teams to ensure their understanding around local regulatory requirements such that they are prepared to meet jurisdictional authorisation obligations.
- Maintain global oversight of regulatory authorisation conditions, ensuring local compliance is consistent with global policies and standards.
- Lead responses to cross regional regulatory queries or supervisory reviews related to authorisation activities.
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