UMO provides Award Winning Mental Health, Neurodiversity & Wellbeing Support Services.
We are experts in mentoring, coaching, supervision, training, and support in partnership with universities and workplaces.
Creators of OneSpace.

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<UMO> is a specialist provider of personalised mental health, neurodiversity and wellbeing mentoring and coaching services for higher education institutions and workplaces. They offer tailored support including specialist mental health mentoring, autism and neurodiversity mentoring (ASD/ADHD), counselling, DSA guidance, staff supervision and training, and university-to-workplace transition support, with multilingual options and international services. UMO partners with universities and employers to help students and employees manage mental health and disability-related challenges and to achieve academic and career goals.

UMO provides Award Winning Mental Health, Neurodiversity & Wellbeing Support Services. We are experts in mentoring, coaching, supervision, training, and support in partnership with universities and workplaces. Creators of OneSpace.

• Drive the end-to-end licensing process across multiple jurisdictions, including direct, high-level engagement with VARA and other financial regulators.
• Provide full legal support for operations in the UAE, EU, and future target markets, ensuring a unified global strategy.
• Advise on the legal frameworks for Banking-as-a-Service (BaaS), card programs, and complex banking partnerships.
• Act as the subject matter expert for the intersection of TradFi and Digital Assets, ensuring wallets, trading features, and fiat ramps remain compliant.
• Architect and maintain the global corporate structure, including holding companies, intercompany agreements, and IP protection.
• Support investment rounds, capital raises, and ongoing legal communication with investors and the Board.
• Build and optimize internal "Legal Ops" workflows to ensure the department scales efficiently as headcount grows.
• Lead the negotiation of high-stakes agreements with global vendors, liquidity providers, and strategic partners.
• Establish and audit internal controls, AML/KYC policies, and data privacy standards (GDPR and local equivalents).

Head of Legal

Head of Legal leading a team to ensure regulatory compliance for a FinTech startup in Dubai. Driving legal operations, licensing, and partnerships across multiple jurisdictions.

product-designer

• Drive the design vision across Banking, Crypto, Wealth, and Lifestyle.
• Turn high-friction flows into elegant, intuitive experiences.
• Define and push design KPIs, including usability scores, task completion rates, and NPS.
• Lead and scale a high-performance squad of 4+ UX/UI designers.
• Pioneer the integration of AI into our design process.
• Shape the UMO identity across every touchpoint.

Head of Product Design

Head of Product Design at UMO shaping the design of an AI-powered financial platform. Leading a team of designers and collaborating with founders to ensure a premium user experience.

account-manager

• Identify, evaluate, and onboard strategic partners required for product development and service launch.
• Lead and moderate partnerships across: Banks and financial institutions, Payment systems, PSPs, and card processors, Liquidity providers and trading venues, IT and infrastructure vendors, Blockchain networks and Web3 protocols.
• Own the full partner lifecycle: sourcing, due diligence, negotiations, contracting, onboarding, and ongoing relationship management.
• Lead commercial and contractual negotiations, including pricing, SLAs, liability, and scalability terms.
• Ensure alignment between partner capabilities, product roadmap, regulatory requirements, and technical architecture.
• Work closely with Product, Engineering, Compliance, Legal, and Operations teams to enable partner integrations.
• Manage partner performance, escalations, and contract renewals.
• Continuously assess market alternatives to optimize cost, resilience, and scalability of the partner stack.

Head of Partnerships

Head of Partnerships at UMO overseeing strategic partnerships in fintech and managing product capabilities across international markets. Focusing on UAE and GCC, collaborating with cross-functional teams.

ai-engineer

• Architecting the Intelligence Layer: Design end-to-end AI/ML architectures, including RAG pipelines, agentic workflows, and real-time decisioning systems tailored to financial services.
• Infrastructure Oversight: Select, govern, and continuously evolve our AI stack (LLM providers, vector databases, orchestration frameworks, and MLOps tooling).
• Engineering Standards & Observability: Establish engineering excellence for AI, including automated testing frameworks, model evaluation pipelines, drift detection, bias monitoring, and CI/CD processes tailored for machine learning in regulated environments.
• Innovation at Production Depth: Partner with the Head of AI Innovation to translate AI product hypotheses into technically viable architectures.
• Trust, Guardrails & Runtime Governance: Embed explainability, auditability, and human-in-the-loop mechanisms into all AI systems.

Machine Learning, AI Architect

ML AI Architect designing end-to-end AI architectures for fintech platform. Leading AI innovation and ensuring secure, scalable infrastructure for financial services.

• Support the entire licensing application cycle, working closely with internal and external stakeholders to prepare documentation and manage responses until successful acquisition of licenses
• Review and collate all required documentation for licensing applications, filings, and renewals of operating licenses, permits, NOCs, and registrations with UAE regulators
• Track and research changes in UAE and wider GCC regulations affecting Fintech (Fiat & Digital Assets) and ensure that licensing applications and internal policies reflect these updates
• Support audits across business units, identify regulatory risks, and prepare reports regarding the company’s current license status
• Assist in drafting company-wide policies and support training initiatives to ensure employees understand their specific regulatory obligations
• Maintain accurate, up-to-date records of all permits, licenses, and filings in a centralized database
• Conduct regulatory research and support the various departments in identifying regulatory issues and requirements early in the stages of product development to support market entry, product launches, and business expansion
• Support the CLO on specialized legal projects and tasks as required

Legal Counsel – Regulatory & Licensing

Legal Counsel supporting the licensing journey at a FinTech company based in Dubai. Collaborating on regulatory compliance and documentation for business operations.

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