Director of Legal & Regulatory Affairs, APAC
MeshAbout Mesh
At Mesh, our mission is to enable consumers to pay and be paid with any asset. Today, trillions of dollars in tokenized assets exist but remain largely unusable for everyday commerce. Mesh is bridging this gap by making crypto payments reliable, useful, and ubiquitous. We combine a powerful orchestration engine with a seamless consumer app to unlock liquidity for the world. Backed by leading investors like PayPal Ventures, Paradigm, and Galaxy Ventures, we are building the infrastructure for the next era of the global economy. Join us!
Overview
Mesh is building the regulatory and payments infrastructure that will power the next generation of digital asset transactions across APAC. As our Director of Legal & Regulatory Affairs, you will play a central role in making that vision possible.
Working closely with the CEO APAC and global Legal and Compliance leadership, you will serve as a trusted advisor on some of the company's most important commercial, product, and expansion decisions. From shaping market entry strategies to supporting enterprise partnerships and navigating emerging regulations across digital assets and payments, your work will have a direct impact on Mesh's growth trajectory.
This is an opportunity for a builder who enjoys turning ambiguity into structure, creating practical solutions to complex regulatory challenges, and helping a fast-growing company unlock new opportunities across the region.
What You'll Do
- Own Mesh's regulatory strategy across APAC. Lead the region's licensing roadmap from defining regulatory positioning and activity classifications to driving licensing applications through to approval.
- Build trusted regulatory relationships. Serve as Mesh's primary legal counterpart with regulators across APAC, while developing and managing a network of top-tier external counsel in key markets.
- Turn regulatory change into business decisions. Stay ahead of developments across digital assets, payments, stablecoins, VASP frameworks, and the Travel Rule, translating complex requirements into practical, decision-ready guidance.
- Enable growth through strategic legal advice. Partner with business leaders on product structuring, market expansion, and commercial partnerships, while advising on agreements with exchanges, fintechs, payment providers, and financial institutions.
- Represent Mesh in high-impact conversations. Join enterprise and strategic partnership discussions where regulatory credibility matters, providing confident, commercially minded legal leadership at the table.
Who You Are
- Qualified lawyer with 10+ years of experience in financial services, fintech, payments, or digital assets.
- Deep APAC regulatory expertise, includi
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