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About the Role
Airwallex is seeking a Regulatory Counsel to advise on regulatory issues related to payments and financial services in the Americas region. This hybrid role, based in San Francisco or New York, offers the opportunity to work on complex, high-visibility problems and grow your career within a fast-moving fintech environment.
Responsibilities
- Support regulatory legal matters relating to Airwallex’s business across the Americas, including advice on existing licenses and registrations and potential future applications.
- Research and summarize developments in payments and financial services regulation, identifying potential impacts on business operations and strategic objectives.
- Partner with Product Legal, Regulatory Compliance, Risk and Financial Crime Compliance teams on regulatory questions involving money transmission, stored value, FX, remittance, card issuing and related financial-services products.
- Support Product, Strategy, Management and Commercial teams on new market entry, license expansion and regulatory mapping for new products and features.
- Analyze how funds move through different payment structures and help identify the applicable licensing and regulatory requirements, escalating complex issues when appropriate.
- Provide clear, practical legal guidance and risk assessments to cross-functional stakeholders, with appropriate support from senior counsel and external advisers.
- Support the management of external legal counsel and consultants, including preparing instructions, reviewing advice and tracking deliverables and costs.
- Assist with regulatory filings, submissions and responses in relevant Americas jurisdictions in partnership with Regulatory Compliance and senior legal counsel.
- Monitor regulatory developments and help translate changes into practical guidance, procedures and implementation requirements.
- Leverage AI and other tooling to improve the scale, efficiency and effectiveness of the Regulatory Legal team.
- Contribute to government-relations and policy work, including research and preparation for outreach to legislators and regulatory agencies.
Requirements
- Qualified lawyer with 5 years of relevant post-qualification experience.
- Regulatory, financial-services or fintech experience gained in-house, in private practice or at a financial institution.
- Exposure to payments, money transmission, e-money, FX, remittances, card issuing, digital financial services or another closely related regulatory area.
- Working understanding of the US financial-services regulatory environment, with an interest in developing deeper expertise in state money-transmitter licensing and payment flows.
- Ability to research complex legal and regulatory questions and translate findings into clear, practical advice.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to explain legal topics to non-lawyers.
- Strong collaboration and stakeholder-management skills, including the judgment to escalate issues appropriately.
- Proactive, organized and ownership-oriented, with the ability to manage multiple priorities and deadlines in a fast-paced environment.
- Comfortable working through ambiguity, learning quickly and operating as part of a global team.
- Experience supporting state money-transmitter licensing applications, renewals, examinations, regulatory filings or related compliance work.
- Experience advising on consumer or commercial financial-services products, including familiarity with Reg E, UDAAP, TILA or similar requirements.
- Experience supporting new-market expansion or regulatory analysis for new products and features.
- Experience working with US federal or state regulators, directly or through outside counsel.
- Experience in a mix of private practice and in-house environments.
- Familiarity with Canadian payments or money-services-business regulation, including RPAA, FINTRAC or provincial licensing.
- Experience using or developing RegTech, LegalTech or AI tools to improve legal workflows.
Skills
- Payments regulation
- Financial services regulation
- Fintech
- Money transmission
- Licensing
- Cross-border product offerings
- Regulatory compliance
- Risk management
- Legal advice
- Stakeholder management
- AI tooling
- Government relations
- Policy work
- US payments regulation
- Money-transmitter licensing
- Payment flows
- Reg E
- UDAAP
- TILA
- Canadian payments regulation
- Money-services-business regulation
- RPAA
- FINTRAC
- RegTech
- LegalTech
Location
- San Francisco
- New York
Work Type
- Hybrid
Experience Level
- 5 years of relevant post-qualification experience
Education Level
- Qualified lawyer
About the Company
- Airwallex is the only unified payments and financial platform for global businesses.
- Powered by proprietary infrastructure and software, Airwallex empowers over 250,000 businesses worldwide with integrated solutions for business accounts, payments, spend management, treasury, and embedded finance.
- Founded in Melbourne, Airwallex has a team of over 2,300 employees across 27 global offices.
- Valued at US$11 billion and backed by leading investors, Airwallex is building the future of global payments and financial platforms.
- The company hires builders with founder-like energy who seek impact, accelerated learning, and ownership.
- Airwallex operates with principles of strong expertise, sharp thinking, mission motivation, fast judgment, deep curiosity, first-principles decision-making, speed, rigor, humility, collaboration, end-to-end execution, and AI utilization.
Equal Opportunity
- Airwallex is proud to be an equal opportunity employer.
- We value diversity and consider anyone seeking employment based on merit, qualifications, competence, and talent.
- We do not discriminate based on color, religion, race, national origin, sexual orientation, ancestry, citizenship, sex, marital or family status, disability, gender, or any other legally protected status.
- We accommodate disabilities or special needs upon request.