Licensing Associate
ARQ is a financial services platform that lets users in Latin America hold global currencies, make cross-border payments, invest in international markets, and spend worldwide with a card.
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About ARQ ( Prev DolarApp )
ARQ serves travelers, investors, and professionals across Latin America who need access to global currencies and financial markets. Users can hold digital dollars and euros, receive and send international payments via dedicated US and European account details, invest in US stocks and ETFs, and spend globally with a card at market conversion rates. The platform is available across Mexico, Argentina, Colombia, and Brazil.
Skills
About the Role
You will manage the global licensing agenda across banking, payments, wealth, and crypto jurisdictions. You will track applications, milestones, deadlines, dependencies, and risks; coordinate internal stakeholders and external counsel; prepare regulatory submissions and related materials; improve licensing systems and playbooks; monitor regulatory developments; and support license renewals and compliance.
Requirements
- 3–6 years of experience in MBB management consulting or an early leadership role at a high-growth startup
- Structured problem-solving and analytical skills
- Written and verbal communication skills
- Project management and organisational ability
- Ability to manage multiple high-stakes workstreams
- Ability to learn new domains across legal, regulatory, financial, and technical subject matter
- Ability to operate in fast-moving, early-stage environments with ambiguity
Responsibilities
- Maintain a single source of truth for active and upcoming global license expansions
- Track licensing milestones, deadlines, dependencies, and risks
- Build and manage project plans for licensing workstreams
- Coordinate external counsel and local advisors
- Translate regulatory requirements into actionable cross-functional workstreams
- Draft submissions, policy documents, regulatory responses, and internal materials
- Coordinate regulatory submissions, implementation tables, and go-live audits
- Align global teams with in-market General Managers and licensing leads
- Design and improve licensing systems, templates, and playbooks
- Develop frameworks for evaluating new license requirements
- Monitor regulatory developments and advise leadership on licensing implications
- Support license maintenance, renewal, and compliance
