Airwallex Senior Counsel for Airwallex's Yield product providing legal, regulatory, and strategic advice across multiple regions. Lead end-to-end legal support from product ideation through launch and market expansion globally.
Responsibilities
This dynamic role is ideal for someone who enjoys wearing multiple hats and solving complex issues for our clients, is detail oriented and commercially-minded, is willing to take on challenges and adapt to changes, is obsessively curious and intellectually honest, thrives on taking actions and delivering impactful results, and aims to inspire and be inspired.
Own legal for Yield end to end and support the global Yield team from ideation through launch, market expansion, and ongoing changes.
Give Product fast, clear answers by saying yes, no, or “here’s the path,” and explain why so the team learns as it goes.
Open new markets and work out what it takes to launch Yield, or an equivalent product, in each new jurisdiction, alongside local regulatory colleagues and external counsel.
Turn regulation into a product and convert cross-jurisdictional requirements into product requirements, customer terms, disclosures, and launch-readiness materials.
Build for scale by creating playbooks, launching checklists, and governance processes so each new market moves faster than the last.
Be the go-to expert and build trusted relationships across Product, Regulatory Legal, Compliance, Licensing, Risk, Product Marketing, Operations, and our regulated partners.
Work as one global team and coordinate advice across the US, Canada, Singapore, Australia, Europe, and other markets, including with product leaders in Australia.
You'll work from our San Francisco or New York office on Mondays, Wednesdays and Thursdays.
Qualification
7+ years of legal experienceIn-house experience at a fintechExperience working with banksExperience building playbooksThe ability to own complexLearn more about your team
Required
A JD or equivalent and active bar membership in at least one US jurisdiction.
7+ years of legal experience, at least some of which at a top-tier law firm
Strong regulatory advisory and/or product counseling experience for financial institutions or fintechs.
Proven experience of being a solution-orientated lawyer who enjoys working strategically with non-lawyers to support commercial end-results
Preferred
In-house experience at a fintech, financial services, asset management, brokerage firm, or other regulated financial services environment.
Experience advising on investment products, discretionary or non-discretionary management, broker-dealer arrangements, custodial relationships, investment-management structures including a US broker-dealer or FINRA-regulated arrangement, or the equivalent elsewhere.
Experience working with banks, broker-dealers, custodians, investment managers, or other regulated partners.
Experience building playbooks, product-governance processes, or market expansion processes.
Strong communication and stakeholder skills across global Product, Compliance, Risk, Operations, Marketing, external counsel, and regulated partners.
The ability to own complex, cross-jurisdictional work streams from ideation through launch.
Experience operating in environments with high standards, fast iteration cycles and evolving priorities, with a curious, collaborative and ownership-oriented approach.
