Head of Licensing and Regulatory Authorisations

About the job

Tether is searching for an organized self‑starter to join our Regulatory and Licensing team as Head of Licensing and Regulatory Authorisations. The successful candidate will apply deep legal and regulatory experience to secure and maintain regulatory approvals for the company’s operations across multiple jurisdictions, ensuring alignment with shifting regulatory landscapes and enabling sustainable market expansion.

• Design and implement a unified global licensing strategy, ensuring consistency across regional approaches.
• Work closely with regional licensing personnel to assess regulatory pathways, evaluate market feasibility, and prioritise jurisdictions.
• Oversee and guide the preparation, submission and management of licensing applications and other regulatory authorisation processes in collaboration with regional teams.
• Ensure alignment between regional licensing efforts and global business priorities.
• Serve as the central point of coordination for licensing and regulatory authorisation activity across all regions, ensuring standards, documentation and approaches remain cohesive.
• Provide direct support, guidance and escalation oversight to regional licensing personnel.
• Align regulatory authorisation efforts with regulatory affairs leads to coordinate regulatory engagement strategies across regions.
• Act as a senior representative in regulatory engagements where global coordination or executive‑level involvement is required.
• Support regional teams in interactions with local regulators, offering strategic guidance and ensuring consistent messaging.
• Coordinate with regional teams to ensure understanding of local regulatory requirements so they are prepared to meet jurisdictional authorisation obligations, including governance, capital, operational and reporting requirements.
• Maintain global oversight of regulatory authorisation conditions, ensuring local compliance is consistent with global policies and standards.
• Lead responses to cross‑regional regulatory queries or supervisory reviews related to authorisation activities.
• Work with regional personnel to conduct regulatory feasibility assessments for new markets and product expansions.
• Provide strategic recommendations to executive leadership on prioritisation of authorisation efforts and regulatory risk.
• Lead and mentor the global regulatory and licensing team, including regional leads and supporting personnel.
• Build capability, consistency and knowledge‑sharing across regions to strengthen the company’s global licensing and authorisations function.
• Promote a culture of regulatory excellence, transparency and disciplined execution.

• 10+ years of experience in regulatory licensing and authorisation, regulatory affairs, compliance or related fields (financial services, payments, fintech, crypto or technology).
• Proven experience managing complex regulatory authorisation processes across multiple regions or markets.
• Strong understanding of diverse regulatory frameworks and supervisory expectations globally.
• Experience working within or leading a regional or matrixed team structure is highly preferred.

• Exceptional cross‑regional coordination and stakeholder engagement skills.
• Strong project management capabilities and ability to manage complex, multi‑jurisdictional work streams.
• Excellent written and verbal communication, able to synthesise regional inputs into a coherent global strategy.
• Strategic thinker with strong execution discipline.
• Ability to build trust and credibility with regulators and internal leadership.