Licensing Manager

Overview

This role supports the licensing and regulatory programs that enable the organization to operate and scale in regulated markets globally. Responsibilities include coordinating licensing and reporting obligations, preparing and submitting filings and renewal applications across jurisdictions, and maintaining centralized workflows and guidance for licensing requirements.

Responsibilities

• Support new product and service launches related to state licensing and reporting, including money transmission, servicing/collections, lending, and international expansion.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with legal, public affairs, compliance, finance, and tax to meet regulatory licensing and reporting obligations.
• Maintain a central repository for licensing and reporting obligations for new license types, including workflows and regulatory guidance.
• Interpret, prepare, and submit state licensing annual reports, MSB call reports, and other regulatory obligations.
• Ensure timely regulatory filings; identify and escalate licensing issues; oversee ongoing regulatory obligations in the licensing management tool.
• Lead preparation of renewal applications and other forms to be filed in various licensing jurisdictions.
• Collaborate on NMLS licensing, reporting, and other regulatory filings.
• Analyze and develop new processes, leveraging AI, to increase efficiency within the licensing program.
• Assist with researching and building licensing requirements into the licensing management tool.
• Coordinate with senior leadership to fulfill ongoing state licensing requirements.
• Partner on licensing projects and initiatives.

Requirements

• 5 years of licensing, compliance, or regulatory experience, ideally related to consumer financial services.
• Outstanding time management, administrative, and organizational skills, including the ability to balance multiple priorities and overlapping projects.
• Proven project management, critical thinking, and analytical skills.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Humility, integrity, and desire to be part of a small, supportive team.
• Inquisitive mindset, eager to learn, and willingness to take ownership of projects.
• Highly focused; able to make independent decisions and work with limited supervision in a fast-paced environment.
• Comfortable operating where priorities shift and ambiguity is part of the landscape.

Compensation & Benefits

Pay Grade: L
Equity Grade: 6

Employees new to the organization typically come in at the start of the pay range. Base pay is part of a total compensation package that may include:

• Equity rewards
• Monthly stipends for health, wellness, and tech spending
• Benefits, including 100% subsidized medical coverage and dental and vision for you and your dependents

USA base pay range (CA, WA, NY, NJ, CT) per year: $165,000 - $225,000

USA base pay range (all other U.S. states) per year: $146,000 - $206,000

Benefits highlights include:

• Health care coverage: organization covers all premiums for all levels of coverage for you and your dependents
• Flexible Spending Wallets: generous stipends for Technology, Food, various Lifestyle needs, and family forming expenses
• Time off: competitive vacation and holiday schedules
• ESPP: employee stock purchase plan enabling purchase of shares at a discount

The organization provides an inclusive interview experience for all candidates, including people with disabilities, and offers reasonable accommodations upon request during the hiring process.

Location & Work Arrangement

Remote-first: most roles are remote, with flexibility to work almost anywhere within the country of employment. Proximal roles may require occasional in-office work at an assigned office. A limited number of roles remain office-based due to job responsibilities.

[For U.S. positions that could be performed in Los Angeles or San Francisco] Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance and Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance, qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records will be considered.

Reporting

This role reports to the Director, Global Licensing and Regulatory Programs.