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About the Role
As Employment Counsel for Airwallex in the Americas, you will be a hands-on partner to People & Talent, focusing on high-risk employment matters. You will help establish the necessary playbooks, policies, and processes for a growing employment function, providing clear and commercially practical advice across the business.
Responsibilities
- Own US employment law advice and coordinate guidance across other jurisdictions with Airwallex's external counsel panel, including contractor and EOR classification, cross-border remote work, mobility exposure, and conduct and remuneration matters in regulated entities.
- Build employment playbooks, templates, policies, and manager guidance to ensure consistent and pragmatic handling of employee matters.
- Lead workplace investigations, employment disputes, agency charges, and litigation, including managing external counsel and legal spend.
- Partner with People & Talent, Total Rewards, Data & Privacy, Corporate Legal, regional People Partners, and business leaders on employee lifecycle, compensation, benefits, equity, entity, and contractor matters.
- Advise on hiring, contracts and variations, performance management, accommodations, leaves, wage and hour compliance, and terminations.
Requirements
- A J.D. degree or foreign equivalent and active membership in at least one US state bar; California, Washington, or New York preferred.
- 5+ years of employment law experience at a leading law firm and/or in-house legal department, with demonstrated employment counselling experience beyond litigation alone.
- Experience advising on and coordinating employment law matters across multiple jurisdictions.
- Experience leading workplace investigations and managing employment disputes, agency charges, or tribunal matters.
- Experience advising on the employee lifecycle, including hiring, contracts and variations, performance management, accommodations, leaves, wage and hour compliance, and terminations.
- Ability to translate complex legal and risk issues into clear, succinct, and actionable guidance for non-legal audiences.
- Strong judgment and ability to provide commercially practical advice under time pressure.
- Ability to operate independently and pivot quickly within a fast-moving, changing environment.
- Fluent English; additional languages are a bonus.
Skills
- Employment law
- Workplace investigations
- Employment disputes
- Litigation management
- Legal advice
- Policy development
- Contract negotiation
- Compliance
- Risk management
Location
- San Francisco
- New York
- Seattle
Work Type
- Hybrid
Experience Level
- 5+ years
Education Level
- J.D. degree or foreign equivalent
- Active membership in at least one US state bar
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.
- Regulated backbone behind global payments with 85+ licenses.
- 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.
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 a disability or special need.