Senior Product Compliance Manager - MEA

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with product managers, analysts and engineers to design and launch compliant products for MEA markets.
• Perform pre-launch and ongoing product compliance legal and regulatory analysis and risk assessments.
• Empower product teams to build risk-based products, processes and scalable customer-centric controls.
• Oversee the MEA control environment, design targeted controls and evaluate residual risk exposure.
• Maintain and produce management information to inform regional and global decision-making.
• Lead audit interactions, issue management and remediation; challenge findings and track closure.
• Represent the company in meetings with banking partners and central banks; clearly articulate products and compliance frameworks.

Requirements

• Regulatory-legal background with MEA experience
• Strong understanding of payment regulations and compliance
• Experience in risk assessment and control design
• Ability to translate regulation into practical product requirements
• Excellent stakeholder communication with product and engineering teams
• Problem-solving attitude and data-driven decision making
• Willingness to travel for regional engagements

Preferred Qualifications

• Prior experience at a financial institution regulated in MEA (e.g., UAE, Türkiye, South Africa, Nigeria, Saudi Arabia)
• Experience working with regulators or at a regulator (e.g., CBUAE, DFSA, FSCA)
• Consultancy background in financial services in MEA
• Payment systems and cross-border payments expertise
• Arabic and/or Turkish language skills (advantageous)

Benefits

• Annual leave
• Health insurance
• Visa sponsorship
• Flight allowance for regional travel

About the Company

Wise is a global technology company building the best way to move and manage money internationally. We focus on low fees, transparent pricing and practical solutions that make cross-border transfers and multi-currency accounts simple for individuals and businesses. The MEA Product Compliance team works closely with product and engineering teams to keep compliance central to product development while scaling operations across the region.