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Airwallex is a unified payments and financial platform serving over 250,000 global businesses. The company is valued at $11 billion and backed by leading investors including Sequoia, Visa, Mastercard, and others. With 2,300+ employees across 27 offices worldwide, Airwallex is building the next generation of global banking infrastructure.
As Senior Legal Counsel for Product Legal, Yield, you will serve as the lead counsel for Airwallex's Yield product, a wealth-management and investment offering. You will be responsible for scaling this product across existing and new markets by providing comprehensive legal, regulatory, and strategic guidance throughout the entire product lifecycle—from ideation and design through regulatory engagement, partner arrangements, customer terms, disclosures, and launch execution.
Key responsibilities include:
- Acting as a trusted business partner to Yield Product teams and cross-functional stakeholders
- Advising on legal and regulatory aspects of new product ideas and enhancements from conception through launch and expansion
- Coordinating with local counsel across multiple jurisdictions (Australia, Singapore, Hong Kong, US, UK, EU) to develop optimal market-entry strategies
- Translating complex legal and regulatory requirements into actionable solutions integrated into product development, including product requirements, customer terms, and launch materials
- Identifying synergies and efficiencies as Yield scales into new markets, developing repeatable legal frameworks and playbooks
- Collaborating with Regulatory Compliance, Product Marketing, Licensing, Risk, and regulated partners (banks, broker-dealers, custodians, investment managers) on product governance and partner arrangements
You will work closely with global product teams and cross-functional partners, coordinating advice across multiple jurisdictions while maintaining the regulatory discipline that protects Airwallex's competitive moat.
REQUIREMENTS:
Minimum qualifications:
- Law degree from a renowned university with 10+ years of post-qualification experience, including time at a top-tier law firm
- Strong regulatory advisory and/or product counseling experience with a reputable law firm, financial institution, or fintech, including at least 3 years advising on wealth-management products
- Proven track record as a solution-oriented lawyer who works strategically with non-lawyers to support commercial outcomes
- Strong stakeholder-management and communication skills; ability to work effectively with Product, Compliance, Risk, Operations, Marketing, external counsel, and senior stakeholders across multiple jurisdictions
- Demonstrated ability to manage complex, cross-jurisdictional legal workstreams, prioritize competing demands, and take ownership from product ideation through launch and expansion
Preferred qualifications:
- In-house legal experience in fintech, financial services, wealth management, asset management, securities, brokerage, or other regulated financial-services environments
- Experience advising on investment products, discretionary or non-discretionary management, broker-dealer arrangements, custodial relationships, investment-management structures, or related customer disclosures and documentation
- Experience working 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
- Comfort operating in high-standards, fast-iteration environments with evolving priorities, demonstrating curiosity, collaboration, and ownership orientation
