🇬🇧 London (Bond Street) — 100% in-person

💰 Competitive (incl. equity)

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About the role

We’re looking for a Member of Specialist Staff (Reg) to build and run Zuba’s regulatory compliance function as we scale across new payment corridors. You’ll sit at the centre of the company — onboarding customers and partners, supporting licensing in new markets, keeping our controls tight as volume grows, and making sure we’re always regulator-ready across every jurisdiction we touch.

This is our first dedicated compliance hire, and we’re designing the role for the way compliance actually works now — not the way it worked five years ago. Large parts of traditional compliance execution (document review, policy drafting, screening, monitoring) are being transformed by AI. Tools like Claude can draft regulatory memos, review onboarding files and generate first-pass policy documentation faster than any analyst. We don’t need someone to do that work manually at scale. We need someone who can build the systems that make it happen, and who has the judgment to know when the output is right.

Half your job is building — compliance tooling, automated workflows, AI-assisted review pipelines, onboarding systems, and monitoring infrastructure that scales across jurisdictions without scaling headcount linearly. The other half is the regulatory substance that makes those systems trustworthy — understanding what Canadian AML regulations, MiCA and African VASP regimes actually require, structuring controls that satisfy regulators, and being the person in the room who can explain our compliance architecture with confidence.

You’ll work across Canadian, EU and a dynamic set of African regulatory regimes. You’ll interact directly with regulators, banks and payment partners. And you’ll have more ownership over the type of workstreams in your first month than most people get in two years at a large institution.

A few reasons why you might find this exciting:

  1. Build compliance infrastructure, not just compliance processes — you’ll design and ship the tooling, automations, and AI-assisted workflows that become Zuba’s operating standard. Your systems become the playbook.
  2. Work at the frontier of AI-native compliance — most compliance teams are still manually reviewing documents and filling in spreadsheets. You’ll build the version that uses LLMs for first-pass review, with human judgment where it matters.
  3. Multi-jurisdictional from day one — you’ll work across Canadian MSB requirements, European CASP licensing under MiCA, and a growing number of African regulatory regimes.
  4. Direct regulator and counsel interaction — you’ll prepare materials for and participate in regulatory consultations, licensing applications and partner diligence reviews. You’ll be in the room, not briefing someone who is.
  5. Operate where regulation is being written in real time — crypto-asset and stablecoin payment regulations are evolving fast. You’ll help shape how Zuba navigates frameworks like MiCA and emerging African VASP regimes before the playbook exists.

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