Project Manager, Regulatory Licensing

The role

You will own regulatory license application projects for Salmon. You will manage submissions to the BSP, SEC, and other regulators as the company expands products and geographies.

What you will do

• End-to-end management of regulatory license applications from initial pack preparation through regulator approval
• Drafting application documentation including application letters, governance materials, and corporate documents
• Managing timelines, deadlines, and deliverables across multiple license projects simultaneously
• Coordinating with legal, compliance, finance, and business owners to gather inputs
• Ongoing communication with regulators and tracking questions and follow-ups through to closure
• Supporting the transition of licensing projects from the PMO team into the dedicated licensing function
• Serving as the primary on-the-ground point of contact in Manila for licensing projects
• Navigating regulatory back-and-forth by drafting responses and tracking open items
• Explaining regulatory context and requirements to stakeholders

Required qualifications

• 3-5 years of experience combining legal, regulatory, and project management work on complex, multi-stakeholder projects in financial services or fintech
• Hands-on experience with license applications for financial activities or comparable fintech regulatory projects at a bank, payment company, EMI, trading firm, financial institution, law firm or Big F
• Strong drafting skills for reading regulations, interpreting requirements, and writing submission-ready documents
• Detail-oriented
• Confident and persistent with stakeholders at all levels
• Comfortable working with Confluence, JIRA, and Slack

About the company

Salmon is a technology-driven financial company building a banking and lending platform across Southeast Asia. The team is Manila-based, globally distributed, and hybrid-first.