Your Purpose 

As Associate General Counsel you will serve as the lead legal partner for our Mexico business, owning the legal strategy and day-to-day legal support for all matters related to our local operation. This is a highly impactful role at the intersection of law, regulation, product, and business execution.

You will help shape how a fast-growing financial services platform operates in one of the most dynamic and highly regulated markets in the region. From supporting product launches and commercial initiatives to advising on regulated operations, customer experience, governance, and regulatory engagement, you will play a critical role in enabling sustainable growth while protecting the business and maintaining a strong legal and regulatory posture.

This role is ideal for a business-oriented lawyer with strong financial regulatory experience in Mexico who wants to work close to decision-making, influence strategy, and help build a legal infrastructure that scales with the company.

Reports To

Deputy General Counsel

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.
  

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.
  

Your Team

You will lead a local legal team and will be responsible for setting priorities, allocating work, and supporting the team’s development across the full range of matters impacting the Mexico operation.

The role will also partner closely with Compliance, Risk, Product, Operations, Finance, People, and regional and global Legal teams, while managing external counsel and acting as the primary legal escalation point for Mexico.

Research in Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion suggests that individuals may hesitate to apply for jobs if they do not meet all the listed criteria. At Bitso, we value diversity and your unique strengths could be just what we're looking for. If this role excites you but you don't match every point in the description, we still want to hear from you.

Your Purpose 

Imagine being at the forefront of one of the most exciting intersections in tech today: where product, AI and privacy meets crypto and financial innovation across LatAm. As a Digital & Privacy Associate Counsel at Bitso, you will be a key player in building and scaling our global digital and privacy programme during a period of aggressive expansion and new product launches, while operating across Mexico, El Salvador, Colombia, Brazil, Argentina, Gibraltar, and other markets.

You will work directly advising Product, Data Science, Information Security, Engineering and Legal teams in other countries on cutting-edge issues like AI governance, cross-border data flows, and privacy-by-design for financial products, and be the go-to LatAm privacy expert.

If you are passionate about this, thrive in fast-paced environments, and want to shape the strategy of LatAm's leading crypto platform, this role was made for you.

Reports To

Data Protection Officer and Deputy General Counsel, with strong collaboration with the Mexican legal team and regional teams in El Salvador, Colombia, Brazil, Argentina and Gibraltar.

Who You Are 

• You hold a law degree, with 2–3 years of experience in financial services, fintech, crypto, regulatory affairs, data protection or information law — whether in-house, at a law firm, or at a regulator.
• You are interested in exposure to product, AI, privacy, crypto and financial innovation matters across LatAm.
• You are proficient in both Spanish and English (written and spoken) and can communicate complex regulatory and technological concepts to several stakeholders clearly and persuasively.
• You are highly organized, detail-oriented, and capable of managing multiple regulatory calendars and deadlines across jurisdictions simultaneously.
• You are a self-starter who thrives in remote-first, fast-paced environments and takes ownership of projects without needing close supervision. 

What You Will Do 

• Support the day-to-day execution of Bitso's global AI and privacy compliance programme across Mexico, El Salvador, Colombia, Brazil, Argentina and Gibraltar.
• Implement privacy tools, review and respond to data subject rights requests (ARCO rights) on a daily basis, ensuring compliance with applicable legal deadlines in each jurisdiction.
• Draft, review, and negotiate data processing agreements (DPAs) and privacy clauses with third-party vendors, partners, and business clients.
• Prepare and maintain privacy notices and consent mechanisms in accordance with local laws (LFPDPPP, LGPD, Gibraltar GDPR, and others).
• Conduct and support data protection impact assessments (DPIAs) for new products, services, technologies, processes and M&A transactions.
• Advise on user experience flows.
• Maintain and update PII inventories, data flow maps, and records of processing activities (ROPA).
• Monitor regulatory developments and update our matrix accordingly.
• Advise Product, Information Security, Engineering, Data Science, and Marketing teams on privacy-by-design, AI implementations and product design.
• Support incident response.
• Assist with privacy training programmes.
• Manage filings and updates to national data protection registries.
• Liaise with regional legal teams and country managers to ensure coordinated privacy compliance across all entities.
• Support privacy due diligence for mergers, acquisitions, and corporate projects.

Your Team

You will be part of the Mexican legal team and Privacy team, reporting to the Data Protection Officer, and will collaborate closely with the regional legal teams worldwide as well as cross-functional partners in Compliance, Product, Information Security, Engineering, Data Science, Marketing, and Country Managers.

Research in Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion suggests that individuals may hesitate to apply for jobs if they do not meet all the listed criteria. At Bitso, we value diversity and your unique strengths could be just what we're looking for. If this role excites you but you don't match every point in the description, we still want to hear from you.

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Your Purpose 

We are looking for a highly motivated Legal Analyst to support Bitso’s Retail product vertical. This role will focus on enabling the launch and scaling of user-facing crypto
products by providing clear, practical and business-oriented legal support. The ideal candidate should have strong attention to detail, solid contract drafting skills, and the ability to navigate regulatory frameworks applicable to fintech and crypto products, while working closely with cross-functional teams in a fast-paced environment.

Reports To

Legal Director

Who You Are 

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English and Spanish
• Experience drafting, reviewing and negotiating NDAs, terms and conditions, and commercial agreements with vendors, partners and clients
• Basic to intermediate knowledge of regulatory frameworks applicable to fintech, payments, or cryptocurrency (e.g., AML/KYC, consumer protection)
• Strong analytical skills with the ability to identify legal risks, inconsistencies, and gaps in documentation.
• Ability to translate legal concepts into clear and practical guidance for business and product teams.
• Experience supporting product or business teams in legal matters, preferably in fast-paced or tech-driven environments.
• Strong organizational skills and ability to manage multiple legal requests simultaneously.
• Familiarity with internal workflows or ticketing systems (e.g., Zendesk) for tracking legal requests.
• High attention to detail and ownership mindset when handling legal documentation.

What You Will Do 

Research in Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion suggests that individuals may hesitate to apply for jobs if they do not meet all the listed criteria. At Bitso, we value diversity and your unique strengths could be just what we're looking for. If this role excites you but you don't match every point in the description, we still want to hear from you.

Your Purpose 

The Compliance Officer will help leading the compliance duties in El Salvador to ensure that the company operations and business goals function in a legal and ethical manner. You will be responsible for developing compliance and AML/TF programs, reviewing company policies, advising management on possible risks, and responding to authorities’ inquiries.

This role is critical in ensuring that our operations adhere to all regulatory requirements set forth by all relevant authorities.

This position is on-site, so the candidate will need to be physically present in El Salvador.

Reports To

Chief Legal Officer 

What You Will Do 

• Develop, implement and manage an organization's compliance program to ensure the organization operates in accordance with the federal laws and applicable regulation.
• Prepare policies for identification and knowledge of the Client (KYC). 
• Verify that the company complies with the information and documentation requirements of the authorities.
• Verify that the company complies with the orders of securing or unblocking of accounts or resources related to any AML/TF matters.
• Define the criteria, measures and procedures to be adopted in order to comply with the regulations.
• Develop and review company policies.
• Coordinate with regulators audits and requirements.
• Plan, implement and oversee risk-related programs.
• Regular audits to identify possible weaknesses or risks.
• Create and coordinate proper reporting channels for compliance issues.
• Develop company compliance communications.
• Coordinate and schedule required compliance training for employees.
• Implement and manage an effective compliance program.
• Create and manage effective action plans in response to audit discoveries.
• Resolve employee concerns about compliance.
• Determine compliance metrics and tracking them.
• Revise, provide insightful inputs and sign off on new financial products to ensure it is compliance with local regulation.
• Remain up to date on laws related to the organization, inform the impacted teams to react accordingly and update policies accordingly.
• Perform compliance audits to determine whether established protocols are being followed and where they can be improved.
• Maintain up to date written documentation and policies related to the organization's business activities.
• Monitor activities of customers transactions.
• Coordinate the follow-up activities of Operations and the investigations to be carried out at the institutional level.
• Verify that the corresponding alerts have been analyzed and the respective investigations have been analyzed and documented, which shall be recorded in files or records.

Research in Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion suggests that individuals may hesitate to apply for jobs if they do not meet all the listed criteria. At Bitso, we value diversity and your unique strengths could be just what we're looking for. If this role excites you but you don't match every point in the description, we still want to hear from you.