Manager Licensing & International Expansion

Manager - Licensing & International Expansion Operating
Office India
Full-Time
Function: COOs Office
Location: HybridIndia
Reporting to: Lead - International Expansion
Level: Assistant Manager / Manager

About Tazapay
Tazapay is a Series B fintech startup building global payments and compliance infrastructure for cross-border businesses. We help companies move money across borders securely compliantly and efficiently operating across multiple geographies currencies and regulatory regimes. Backed by strong global investors Tazapay sits at the intersection of payments risk compliance and AI enabling businesses to scale internationally without worrying about regulatory complexity. As we expand globally risk and compliance are not just support functions for us they are core product capabilities. At Tazapay we are building world-class AI-first products that power decisioning automation and intelligence across financial workflows.

Role Overview
This is a high-visibility high-impact role in the COOs office at Tazapay. As Manager - Licensing & International Expansion you will drive expansion of Tazapays products internationally formulate Tazapays licensing strategy across multiple markets and own operationalisation of licenses to build truly global payments infrastructure. We are looking for a sharp operator who has worked / interested to work at the intersection of growth licensing and execution.

You will work closely with COO regulators legal compliance finance product and operations to translate requirements into an operational plan - from licensing application to launching the product in a new market.

Key Responsibilities
1. International Expansion and Licensing:
Own end-to-end planning and execution for licensing and expansion workstreams in one or more countries
Decompose licensing and expansion requirements into actionable functional technical and operational requirements.
Conduct gap analyses by back-testing licence and expansion conditions against current policies processes and systems.
Track and manage licence-related workstreams ensuring cross-functional milestones are met ahead of entity go-live.
Coordinate operational readiness across areas including: onboarding terms & conditions outsourcing registers regulatory reporting safeguarding payroll taxes and secretarial coverage.
Act as the connective tissue between the licensing team country leads compliance and functional owners - synthesising inputs and escalating blockers early.

2. Program and Stakeholder Management
Prepare high-quality status reports steering committee materials and executive updates with clarity and precision.
Build trusted relationships with internal stakeholders including Finance Legal Compliance Product Engineering and Operations.
Manage external partners including regulatory consultants local counsel corporate secretaries and system vendors.
Communicate complex regulatory or operational requirements in clear accessible language to non-specialist audiences.

Key Interfaces
Product Engineering and Operations Leads
Partnership Team
Finance Accounting and Safeguarding
Legal Risk & Compliance teams
Local Country Team (MLRO Compliance Manager Risk Managers)
External: regulators financial institutions legal counsel corporate service providers system vendors


What We are looking for Must Have:
4-7 years of experience working in a regulated environment - payments banking e-money fintech or financial services - with exposure to regulators compliance frameworks or licensing processes across Banks or Fintech
Demonstrated programme or project management capability: managing workstreams cross-functional coordination and delivery against milestones.
Strong problem-solving skills: ability to break down complex regulatory or operational problems into structured executable plans.
Excellent written and verbal communication; ability to distill complexity into crisp narratives for senior audiences.
High stakeholder management aptitude - credible with senior internal and external counterparties

Preferred:
Familiarity and exposure to Regulatory and Compliance frameworks.
Engineering and/or management background from a reputed institute preferred.

Key Skills
We are looking for Trait What it means at Tazapay
Problem Solving You cut through ambiguity identify the problem proactively determine and drive to a solution.
Regulatory Mindset You understand that compliance is a business enabler - not a bottleneck - and you engage regulations and frameworks with confidence.
Project Management You can manage and deliver on multiple high complexity projects simultaneously within stipulated timeline and with high quality standards
Communication Your documents decks and verbal updates are clear concise and tailored to the audience.

Why Join Tazapay
Opportunity to expand the global footprint of a fast-scaling cross-border payments business.
Work directly with senior leadership and gain rare exposure to multi-jurisdiction licensing compliance and corporate governance.
A culture built on openness high ownership and genuine collaboration - where your work is visible and your impact is tangible.
Market leading compensation









Employment Type : Full Time
Experience: years
Vacancy: 1