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Airwallex is an AI-native financial operating system serving over 675,000 businesses globally, including McLaren Racing, Qantas, SHEIN, and TikTok. The company operates as the regulated backbone for global payments across North America, Europe, the Middle East, and Asia-Pacific, with 85+ licenses and 2,300+ employees across 27 offices.
You will serve as the embedded legal partner for Airwallex's Yield product team, a fast-growing business unit that enables customers to earn returns on multi-currency cash through money-market fund connections while handling KYC, settlement, and accounting. Your role spans the entire product lifecycle from design and ideation through launch, market expansion, and ongoing evolution.
Key responsibilities include:
- Owning legal support for the global Yield Product team across all phases of development and deployment
- Advising on legal and regulatory requirements for launching Yield in new jurisdictions, collaborating with local regulatory colleagues and external counsel
- Translating complex, cross-jurisdictional requirements into practical product decisions, including product specifications, customer terms, disclosures, and launch-readiness materials
- Building trusted relationships across Product, Regulatory Legal, Compliance, Licensing, Risk, Product Marketing, Operations, and regulated partners
- Developing scalable legal playbooks, launch checklists, governance processes, and repeatable approaches to support efficient expansion while managing local risk
- Partnering across jurisdictions and time zones, including colleagues in Australia, and coordinating advice across the United States, Canada, Singapore, Australia, Europe, and other relevant markets
You will work from the San Francisco or New York office on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays.
REQUIREMENTS:
Essentials:
- JD or equivalent law degree with 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 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 establishment of investment services, ideally including U.S. broker-dealer or FINRA-regulated services or equivalent arrangements in other jurisdictions
- 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 ability to work effectively with Product, Compliance, Risk, Operations, Marketing, external counsel, regulated partners, and senior stakeholders across multiple jurisdictions
- 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 willingness to understand unfamiliar regulatory frameworks, markets, and customer needs
Preferred:
- In-house legal experience in fintech, financial services, wealth management, asset management, securities, brokerage, or other regulated financial-services environments
- 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
