The posting
Why Join dLocal? dLocal is the financial infrastructure powering global commerce in the world's fastest-growing markets. The biggest companies in the world trust us to unlock growth in 60+ countries across emerging markets—moving money where others see complexity. We don't just process payments; we are architects of payment ecosystems and partners in our customers' expansion. You'll work alongside 1,300+ teammates from 40+ nationalities and tackle global challenges from day one.
As our Regulatory Licensing Officer, APAC, you will play a key role in advancing dLocal’s licensing agenda across the Asia-Pacific region.
This role is primarily focused on licensing strategy and execution, supporting the business in scaling in a compliant and sustainable way through new license applications, renewals, variations, regulatory approvals, and related regulatory engagement across multiple jurisdictions.
You will work closely with business, legal, compliance, and local stakeholders to assess licensing requirements, manage licensing pipelines, and support market expansion priorities across APAC.
The role requires someone who can operate independently, engage directly with regulators and external counsel, and combine strong execution with sound judgement in complex, cross-border regulatory environments.
This position will prioritize candidates based in Singapore, China, or Malaysia, in line with the team’s hybrid operating model.
Strong profiles from other APAC locations may also be considered.
What will I be doing?
- Lead and support licensing projects across APAC markets, including new applications, renewals, variations, and other regulatory approvals required to support business activities.
- Assess licensing requirements, regulatory pathways, and approval strategies for new markets, products, and legal entities across the region.
- Partner with internal stakeholders to evaluate the licensing impact of business initiatives, expansion plans, and structural or operational changes.
- Help define licensing strategy and sequencing for market entry and regulatory prioritization across APAC.
- Manage and track licensing pipelines, key milestones, dependencies, and submissions to ensure timely and high-quality execution.
- Prepare, coordinate, and support licensing submissions, regulator questionnaires, follow-up requests, and related documentation.
- Liaise directly with regulators, external counsel, and relevant internal teams throughout licensing and approval processes.
- Provide practical advice on licensing-related regulatory issues in payments, fintech, and financial services across multiple APAC jurisdictions.
- Support due diligence and internal decision-making by identifying key licensing constraints, risks, and jurisdiction-specific considerations relevant to business expansion.
- Maintain clear documentation and internal visibility over licensing statuses, submissions, approval conditions, and key regulatory commitments linked to licenses.
What skills do I need?
- Advanced degree in law, compliance, finance, public policy, or a comparable field.
- 5+ years of relevant experience in regulatory affairs, licensing, compliance, or legal advisory roles.
- Strong hands-on experience with APAC licensing and regulatory approval matters in payments, fintech, financial institutions, or similarly regulated sectors.
- Demonstrated experience dealing directly with regulators and managing licensing processes across multiple jurisdictions.
- Strong understanding of regulatory frameworks and licensing approaches across APAC.
- Ability to work independently and effectively manage multiple priorities across countries and stakeholders.
- Strong judgement and problem-solving skills, with the ability to translate regulatory requirements into practical licensing strategies and execution plans.
- Experience gained in an international company, payments company, fintech, financial institution, regulator, or law firm is strongly preferred.
- Highly analytical, detail-oriented, and comfortable navigating ambiguity in a fast-paced environment.
- Strong communication and stakeholder management skills, with fluency in English, both written and spoken.
- Professional, flexible, hands-on, and highly accountable.
What do we offer? Besides the tailored benefits we have for each country, dLocal will help you thrive and go that extra mile by offering you: - Flexibility in how you work: We focus on impact and productivity over fixed hours. This means our teams have flexible schedules and, depending on your role and location, you will combine self‑managed focus time with moments of in‑person connection in our collaboration hubs. - Fintech industry: work in a dynamic and ever-evolving environment, with plenty to build and boost your creativity. - Referral bonus program: our internal talents are the best recruiters - refer someone ideal for a role and get rewarded. - Work From Anywhere: Team members can work while traveling for up to 3 months every year.
What happens after you apply?
Our Talent Acquisition team is invested in creating the best candidate experience possible, so don’t worry, you will definitely hear from us. We will review your CV and keep you posted by email at every step of the process!
Also, you can check out our webpage, Linkedin and Youtube for more about dLocal!
