About ARQARQ is one of the fastest-growing fintechs in the world.
Our mission is to redefine how people interact with money across borders, building the backbone to move value seamlessly.
We're still early in our journey, which means every person who joins shapes the future of our product, culture, and growth.
If you're excited by big challenges, global impact, and the chance to grow fast with a world-class team, ARQ is the place to do it.About ARQARQ is one of the fastest-growing fintechs in the world.
Our mission is to redefine how people interact with money across borders, building the backbone to move value seamlessly.
We're still early in our journey, which means every person who joins shapes the future of our product, culture, and growth.
If you're excited by big challenges, global impact, and the chance to grow fast with a world-class team, ARQ is the place to do it.The RoleLicensing is mission-critical at ARQ.
As we expand across banking, wealth management, payments, and crypto, in multiple jurisdictions simultaneously, the ability to secure and maintain the right licenses determines whether we can operate, grow, and serve our customers at all.As Licensing Associate, you will own the global licensing workstream end to end.
You will track every active and upcoming license application across all jurisdictions, drive deliverables across product, legal, operations, and finance, and make sure ARQ has the regulatory permissions it needs to operate and scale its business.
You will work directly with senior leadership and external counsel, and you will be expected to bring structure, rigour, and pace to one of the most consequential workstreams in the company.This role sits at the intersection of regulatory strategy, product, operations, legal, and finance.
If you thrive in complex,



high-stakes environments and want early ownership at a world-class fintech, this is for you.What you'll be doingYou will drive the global licensing agenda across all licenses and jurisdictions, ensuring ARQ has the permissions it needs to operate and grow, and that nothing falls through the cracks.Own the global licensing pipelineMaintain a single source of truth for all active and upcoming license expansions globally, covering banking, payments, wealth, and crypto across multiple jurisdictionsTrack every milestone, deadline, and dependency in each licensing process, surfacing risks early and driving resolution across teamsBuild and manage a structured project plan for each licensing workstream, ensuring accountability across product, legal, finance, and operations stakeholdersCoordinate with external counsel and local advisors in each jurisdiction, managing deliverable quality, timeline, and costDrive cross-functional executionTranslate regulatory requirements into actionable workstreams for product, engineering, operations, finance, and legal teams, owning follow-through on eachDraft and structure submissions, policy documents, regulatory responses, and internal materials with rigour and precisionCoordinate preparation for regulatory submissions, implementation tables, and go-live audits, ensuring each team is ready and all materials are of the highest standardAct as the connective tissue between general teams and in-market General Managers or licensing leads,



ensuring alignment and removing blockersBuild the licensing functionDesign and continuously improve ARQ's internal systems, templates, and playbooks for managing licensing processes at scale across multiple jurisdictionsDevelop frameworks for evaluating new license requirements as ARQ enters new markets or launches new productsMonitor regulatory developments across key jurisdictions, identifying licensing implications early and advising leadership proactivelySupport the maintenance and renewal of existing licenses, ensuring ongoing compliance with license conditions and regulatory expectationsWhat you'll need3-6 years of experience in a high-performance environment: MBB management consulting, or an early leadership role at a high-growth startupExceptional structured problem-solving and analytical skills: you break complex, ambiguous situations into clear plans and drive them to completionOutstanding written and verbal communication; you can synthesise complexity into precise, compelling documents and presentations for senior audiencesProven project management and organisational ability: you run multiple high-stakes workstreams in parallel without dropping detailsStrong learning velocity and intellectual curiosity; you pick up new domains quickly and operate confidently across legal, regulatory, financial, and technical subject matterHigh ownership mentality with a bias for action: you don't wait to be told what to do and you hold yourself and others accountable for outcomesComfort operating in fast-moving, early-stage environments with limited structure and high ambiguityNice-to-havesExposure to financial services, fintech, or regulatory environments, whether through consulting engagements, direct roles, or courseworkExperience working across multiple jurisdictions or geographies simultaneously
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📌 Strategy And Operations Manager (Bogotá)
🏢 ARQ
📍 Bogotá