Associate General Counsel

Bitso is the leading cryptocurrency platform in Latin America, developing the cryptocurrency ecosystem and enabling financial inclusion.

### 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.

Bitso is Latin America's leading crypto-based financial services company that enables users to invest, trade, and make borderless payments using cryptocurrency. The platform empowers customers to build wealth and achieve financial independence through crypto transactions.