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About the Role

Airwallex is scaling its Yield product globally, presenting complex legal and regulatory challenges. This role involves acting as an embedded legal partner to the product team, translating legal questions into practical solutions for product design, partner arrangements, customer documentation, and launch execution.

Responsibilities

Own legal support for the global Yield Product team from product design and ideation through launch, market expansion, and ongoing product changes.
Advise on legal and regulatory requirements for launching Yield or equivalent products in new jurisdictions, collaborating with local regulatory colleagues and external counsel.
Translate complex, cross-jurisdictional requirements into practical product decisions, including product requirements, customer terms, disclosures, and launch-readiness materials.
Build trusted relationships with Product, Regulatory Legal, Regulatory Compliance, Licensing, Risk, Product Marketing, Operations, and regulated partners, serving as the go-to legal expert for the Yield product.
Develop scalable legal playbooks, launch checklists, governance processes, and repeatable approaches to facilitate efficient team expansion while minimizing local risk.
Partner across jurisdictions and time zones with colleagues and product leaders, coordinating advice across the United States, Canada, Singapore, Australia, Europe, and other relevant markets.

Requirements

A JD or equivalent law degree and active bar membership in at least one U.S. jurisdiction.
5+ years of post-qualification legal experience, including experience at a top-tier law firm or in a comparable financial-services legal environment.
Experience advising on investment products, wealth management, discretionary or non-discretionary investment management, broker-dealer arrangements, custodial relationships, investment-management structures, or related customer disclosures and documentation.
Strong regulatory advisory and product counselling experience with a reputable law firm, financial institution, or fintech, including meaningful experience advising on wealth-management products.
Experience advising on licensing or the establishment of investment services, ideally including a U.S. broker-dealer or FINRA-regulated service, product, or equivalent arrangement in another jurisdiction.
A track record of working strategically with non-lawyers and translating legal and regulatory requirements into practical, commercially minded solutions.
Strong stakeholder-management and communication skills, with the ability to work effectively with Product, Compliance, Risk, Operations, Marketing, external counsel, regulated partners, and senior stakeholders across multiple jurisdictions.
The ability to manage complex, cross-jurisdictional legal workstreams, prioritize competing demands, and own advice from product ideation through launch and expansion.
Curiosity and learning agility, with a willingness to understand unfamiliar regulatory frameworks, markets, and customer needs.
In-house legal experience in fintech, financial services, wealth management, asset management, securities, brokerage, or another regulated financial-services environment.
Experience working with banks, broker-dealers, custodians, investment managers, or other regulated partners.
Experience across securities, investment-adviser, investor-protection, fiduciary, suitability, or equivalent regulatory frameworks in multiple jurisdictions.
Experience building scalable legal playbooks, product-governance processes, launch checklists, or other tools that improve legal efficiency.
Experience supporting product launches or market expansion across jurisdictions such as Australia, New Zealand, Hong Kong, Singapore, the Netherlands, the United States, or other relevant markets.
Comfort operating in a fast-moving, product-led environment with high standards, evolving priorities, and incomplete information.
Comfortable making decisions with incomplete information and moving quickly.
Consistently looking to take on new and diverse challenges, expand knowledge beyond current areas of expertise, and comfortable stepping outside comfort zones.
Enjoy working closely with people across multiple countries and time zones as part of one connected, global team, including flexing hours occasionally.
Direct communication style delivered with respect.
Ability to connect dots across functions and hold the big picture without losing grip on the details.

Skills

Regulatory advisory
Product counselling
Stakeholder management
Communication skills
Cross-jurisdictional legal workstream management
Prioritization
Learning agility
Strategic thinking
Commercial acumen

Location

San Francisco
New York

Work Type

Hybrid

Experience Level

5+ years post-qualification legal experience

Education Level

JD or equivalent law degree
Active bar membership in at least one U.S. jurisdiction

About the Company

Airwallex is the AI-native financial operating system for a real-time, intelligent economy.
More than 675,000 businesses use Airwallex to run financial operations or build and monetize financial products.
Started in Melbourne in 2015 to build the infrastructure global commerce runs on.
The regulated backbone behind global payments with a decade plus of experience, 85+ licenses, and financial infrastructure spanning North America, Europe, the Middle East, and Asia-Pacific.
Co-headquartered in San Francisco and Singapore, with over 2,300 employees across 27 offices.
Hires builders with founder-level energy who move fast with good judgment, dig in with real curiosity, and make calls from first principles.
The Yield team is one of Airwallex's fastest-growing business units, building an investment product for customers to earn returns on multi-currency cash.
The Yield product connects to money-market funds and handles KYC, settlement, and accounting.

Equal Opportunity

Airwallex is proud to be an equal opportunity employer.
Values diversity and considers anyone seeking employment based on merit, qualifications, competence, and talent.
Does not regard color, religion, race, national origin, sexual orientation, ancestry, citizenship, sex, marital or family status, disability, gender, or any other legally protected status when making hiring decisions.
Provides accommodation for individuals with disabilities or special needs.