Associate General Counsel

What You Will Do

• Serve as the primary legal advisor for all matters related to the Mexico operation.
• Provide legal and regulatory support across the full lifecycle of the business in Mexico.
• Advise on the legal and regulatory aspects of launching, modifying, and maintaining products and services offered in Mexico.
• Partner closely with Product, Compliance, Operations, Risk, Finance, and leadership to evaluate legal risk and enable compliant, scalable business solutions.
• Review and advise on customer-facing terms, disclosures, onboarding journeys, in-app flows, marketing materials, and communications for the Mexican market.
• Lead legal analysis for new initiatives, features, partnerships, and expansion opportunities affecting the Mexico business.
• Draft, review, and negotiate a broad range of legal agreements, including commercial agreements, vendor contracts, partnership arrangements, and local legal documentation.
• Support and manage legal aspects of relationships with regulators and authorities in Mexico, including responses to requests, inspections, visits, follow-ups, and remediation efforts.
• Advise on the impact of legal and regulatory developments in Mexico on the company’s products, processes, and operating model.
• Oversee local corporate governance and entity maintenance matters for Mexico, in coordination with internal teams and external counsel as needed.
• Support dispute management, complaints, pre-litigation matters, investigations, and other contentious issues affecting the Mexico business.
• Manage and coordinate external counsel on local law matters, ensuring high-quality, efficient, and business-oriented support.
• Contribute Mexico legal expertise to regional and global legal initiatives when local input is needed.

Who You Are

• Law degree and active license to practice in Mexico.
• 8+ years of relevant legal experience, with a significant portion focused on financial services, fintech, payments, banking, securities, or other highly regulated industries.
• Strong expertise in Mexican financial regulation, with demonstrated experience advising on regulated financial products, services, or operations.
• Deep familiarity with the Mexican regulatory landscape, including CNBV, Banco de México, CONDUSEF, and related supervisory frameworks.
• Proven experience advising on the legal and regulatory implications of product design, launches, operational changes, partnerships, and customer-facing flows.
• Strong judgment in assessing legal and regulatory risk in fast-moving business environments and translating it into practical, commercially sound recommendations.
• Experience drafting, reviewing, and negotiating commercial agreements, strategic partnerships, vendor contracts, customer terms, disclosures, and other legal documentation.
• Experience handling regulatory inquiries, examinations, supervisory processes, information requests, or other interactions with Mexican authorities.
• Strong working knowledge of consumer protection, data privacy, marketing review, outsourcing/vendor structures, and corporate governance matters relevant to financial services operations in Mexico.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills in Spanish and English, including the ability to explain complex legal and regulatory issues in clear business terms.
• High ownership mindset, strong responsiveness, and comfort operating as the primary legal point of contact for a country-level operation.
• Experience supporting fintech, payments, digital assets, broker-dealer, or other innovative financial products is a strong plus.

Compensation & Benefits

• Me Time program, including unlimited paid time off.
• Remote-first work environment.
• Employee Stock Option program.
• Zero trading fees through our Bitso Alpha app.
• Extended Family Leave Policy: all birthing parents, non-birthing parents and adopting parents are eligible for a 4-months leave.
• Premium health, dental and life insurances in Mexico, Gibraltar, Colombia, USA, Brazil and Argentina.