HSBC Group

About Zing

Zing is a brand new fintech built to make international money worry-free for anyone who sends, spends, or converts international currencies. Zing has been developed within the HSBC Group to work for anyone, even if they don’t have a HSBC account. Zing is a separate brand and product so we can be an agile fintech whilst getting the benefits of having one of the world’s biggest international banks as a parent. 

Zing has recently launched in the UK and has ambitious plans to scale both within the UK and internationally at pace. For more details about Zing, please visit https://www.zing.me/.

Reporting to the fintech’s Head of Data Privacy and Regulatory Legal, you will be expected to review fintech products for legal compliance, negotiate commercial partnerships, advise on marketing campaigns (including IP, compliance, and data privacy aspects); advise on competitions, rewards, and programmes. You will sit in the fintech business directly, but with the full support of the wider HSBC Legal team. 

If you’re looking for a career that will help you stand out, join Zing by HSBC and fulfil your potential. Whether you want a career that could take you to the top, or simply take you in an exciting new direction, Zing by HSBC offers opportunities, support and rewards that will take you further.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Supporting the business and the Head of Commercial Legal on the review of new partnership agreements, including drafting and negotiating agreements.
• Supporting the business and the Head of Regulatory and Data Privacy Legal on all new marketing strategies, including reviewing advertising copy, drafting competition terms, developing rewards programmes and advising on strategies across app, social media and website.
• Liaise with commercial legal, regulatory legal, risk and compliance and other colleagues to help ensure that the product marketing meets all applicable legal and regulatory requirements in a global context when developing and embedding marketing strategy.
• Build, own and maintain strong relationships internally within the business, in particular with commercial, marketing, technology, regulatory personnel, HSBC legal team and third parties, including external legal advisors, regulators and industry forums where appropriate.
• Supporting the Head of Data Privacy and Regulatory Legal, Head of Commercial Legal and the General Counsel with matters pertaining to wider legal risk where appropriate. 

The ideal candidate for this role will have:

• Legal knowledge of key risks across marketings, including an awareness of issues in ad tech, app managements, attribution, and social media.
• Experience of drafting and negotiating marketing documents, including partnership agreements and competitions.  
• Knowledge of the ASA/CAP code.
• Legal awareness in several of the following key areas: commercial contracts, data privacy, payments, regulatory and IP (in either the UK and EU, or an APAC jurisdiction), preferably with global retail banking experience including multi-currency operations, payment and cross border transactions, as well as digital banking models and digital wallets.
• Collaborative with excellent communication skills in translating “legalese”.

You’ll achieve more when you join HSBC.

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