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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.
- 7+ 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.
Skills
- Regulatory advisory
- Product counselling
- Stakeholder management
- Communication
- Cross-jurisdictional legal workstreams management
- Prioritization
- Commercial thinking
- Strategic thinking
Location
- San Francisco
- New York
Work Type
- Hybrid
Experience Level
- 7+ years of 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.
- Founded in Melbourne in 2015, Airwallex provides the infrastructure for global commerce.
- The company operates as a regulated backbone for global payments with over 85 licenses.
- Airwallex has a 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.
- Airwallex hires builders with founder-level energy who move fast with good judgment, exhibit curiosity, and make decisions from first principles.
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.