Legal Counsel - UK

• Join Wise's global Legal team as Legal Counsel for the UK, enabling, protecting, and empowering the business to achieve growth with minimal distraction. • Advise on a wide range of legal matters across the UK and EMEA including financial regulation, consumer protection, payments, banking, marketing standards, and partnerships. • Be part of the core team of lawyers owning all aspects of the contract lifecycle with bank partners, online platforms, and enterprise customers. • Work from Wise's London office with flexible working arrangements.

• Have 4–7 years PQE and be a UK qualified lawyer. • Have experience in the banking or payments industry. • Bring previous law firm or in-house experience focusing on payments, card processing, financial services, banking, or investments. • Demonstrate a proven aptitude for commercial contract structuring, drafting, and negotiation. • Have a strong interest and experience in financial services regulation including payments, consumer protection, banking, and investments. • Possess broad legal knowledge that enables you to spot and resolve a variety of legal issues in product offerings across regulatory, contract, IP, privacy, consumer protection, and risk. • Distil complexity and identify and clearly communicate practical, risk-based solutions. • Have clear communication, project coordination, and management skills including for partner relations. • Navigate complex issues and multiple stakeholders, advising the business on key risks and developing solutions. • Have a get-it-done, collaborative approach to problem-solving.

• Have specific experience assessing risks related to API integrations including country risk, feature launches, and regulatory implications. • Bring experience mentoring and upskilling business teams and junior legal team members. • Have experience with licence applications and market expansion projects across multiple jurisdictions. • Bring experience streamlining legal processes and developing template libraries at scale. • Have a passion for fintech and payments with an eye on future legal developments.

• Work closely with multiple business teams across the UK and EMEA region to advise on a wide range of legal matters and ad hoc issues including financial regulation, consumer protection, payments, banking, marketing standards, and partnerships. • Work with the business, global Legal team, and outside counsel on new product launches, market expansions including licence applications, corporate matters, and commercial agreements. • Own all aspects of the contract lifecycle with bank partners, online platforms, and enterprise customers — from structuring and drafting to negotiation. • Assess and advise the business on risks specific to API integrations including country risk, feature launches, regulatory implications, and overall partner relationships. • Mentor and upskill business teams and other Legal team members, including supervising responses to Legal support queries. • Understand real risks to the business and advise on the operational impact and practicalities of those risks. • Review current practices and develop and maintain templates. • Streamline processes and structure tasks related to legal matters in the UK and occasionally EMEA. • Stay up to date on legal developments in the UK and advise on future-looking initiatives. • Support the wider needs of Wise through training and workshops with the global Legal team.

We have been Wise customers for years and have always had a great experience. We love their transparent approach in everything they do, from showing the correct exchange rates to disclosing all their fees, and even being honest about how they work. Founded in 2010 in London, Wise is now a publicly traded company operating in over 160 countries, generating 1.2+ billion pounds in revenue (2025) and is highly profitable. What we especially love at Wise is their work from anywhere policy after 6 months: Basically you can remotely work from (almost) anywhere in the world for up to 90 days a year. As they are solving a massive problem and are strongly mission-driven, we are sure that any individual passionate about working on complex, impactful problems in sending money globally efficiently, while continuing to work on the much-loved Wise solutions, will love working there.

• Earn £100,000–£120,000 plus stock options as part of the compensation package. • Work flexibly — whether from home, for school plays, or life admin, with trust to do the right thing. • Access wellbeing support for you and your family through an Employee Assistance Program with qualified counsellors. • Take 6 weeks of paid sabbatical after 4 years at Wise, on top of annual leave.

Wise is a global technology company building the best way to move and manage the world's money. Whether people and businesses are sending money to another country, spending abroad, or making and receiving international payments, Wise is on a mission to make their lives easier and save them money. The company is building an entirely new network for the world's money — for everyone, everywhere.