Legal Counsel, UK

• Undertake a wide range of legal matters relating to Wise's day-to-day operations and strategic initiatives across the UK and EMEA. • Enable, protect, and empower the business and people of Wise to achieve growth with minimal distraction. • Own all aspects of the contract lifecycle with bank partners, online platforms, and enterprise customers — from structuring and drafting to negotiation. • Advise on risks specific to API integrations, including country risk, regulatory implications, and bank partner relationships. • Mentor and upskill business teams and other members of the Legal team, making life simple and easy.

• UK qualified lawyer with 4–7 years PQE. • Experience in the banking or payments industry. • Previous law firm or in-house experience focusing on payments, card processing, financial services, banking, or investments. • Proven aptitude for commercial contract structuring, drafting, and negotiation. • Strong interest and experience in financial services regulation, including payments, consumer protection, banking, and investments. • Broad legal knowledge enabling you to spot and resolve regulatory, contract, IP, privacy, and consumer protection issues in upcoming product offerings. • Ability to distil complexity and communicate practical, risk-based solutions clearly. • Strong communication, project coordination, and stakeholder management skills. • Get-it-done, collaborative approach to problem solving.

• Experience advising on API integrations or platform partnership agreements in a fintech or payments context. • Background supporting license applications or market expansion projects across EMEA. • Experience developing or maintaining legal templates and streamlining contract processes at scale.

• Work closely with multiple business teams across the UK and EMEA to advise on financial regulation, consumer protection, payments, banking, marketing standards, and partnerships. • Partner with the business and global Legal team on new product launches, market expansions, license applications, corporate matters, and commercial agreements. • Own all aspects of the contract lifecycle with bank partners, online platforms, and enterprise customers. • Assess and advise on risks specific to API integrations, including country risk, feature launches, and regulatory implications. • Mentor and upskill business teams and Legal team members, including supervising responses to Legal support queries. • Review current practices and develop and maintain legal templates. • Streamline processes and structure tasks related to legal matters in the UK and occasionally EMEA. • Stay up to date on UK legal developments and advise on future-looking initiatives. • Support the wider global Legal team with training and workshops.

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.

• Salary of £100,000–£120,000 plus stock options. • Flexible working — trusted to work from home, attend school plays, or handle life admin as needed. • Wellbeing support — Employee Assistance Program with access to qualified counsellors for you and your family. • 6 weeks of paid sabbatical after 4 years at Wise, on top of annual leave.

Wise is a global technology company on a mission to make moving and managing money across borders as easy, fast, and cheap as possible. With customers sending money internationally, spending abroad, and making cross-border payments, Wise is building an entirely new network for the world's money — for everyone, everywhere.