Director, Corporate Legal (M&A) (Fintech)

Location: Hybrid role based in the San Francisco or New York office, with attendance required on Mondays, Wednesdays and Thursdays

Base salary: $250K–$340K annually, plus potential equity and bonus

Company

Airwallex provides an AI-native financial operating system and regulated global payments infrastructure for businesses and financial product builders.

What you will do

• Lead private-company fundraising and financing transactions from term sheets through closing and post-close actions.
• Design and execute domestic and cross-border M&A and strategic transactions, including acquisitions of licensed fintech entities.
• Advise on transaction structure, documentation, regulatory and licensing matters, closing mechanics and post-closing integration.
• Structure secondary sales and private-company liquidity programs, including tender offers and shareholder approval processes.
• Support corporate governance, capital structure, intragroup reorganisations and other corporate actions.
• Build transaction playbooks, templates and approval frameworks using LegalTech and AI to improve scalability.

Requirements

• U.S. legal qualification or foreign equivalent, with an active license to practice in at least one U.S. jurisdiction.
• 10+ years of experience in an in-house legal department and/or private practice advising on private-company financings and M&A.
• Strong experience drafting and negotiating equity financing, M&A, joint venture and secondary-sale documentation.
• Strong working knowledge of U.S. corporate and securities law for private companies.
• Ability to advise senior executives, investors and cross-functional stakeholders in fast-moving environments.
• Excellent drafting, negotiation, analytical and project-management skills.

Nice to have

• Experience in high-growth technology, fintech, payments or broader financial services.
• Experience with cross-border structures, licensed entities, tender offers or private-company liquidity programs.
• Background combining top-tier law firm and in-house experience, preferably in a late-stage growth or pre-IPO company.
• Experience improving transaction-related legal operations, playbooks, templates and tooling.

Culture & Benefits

• Work with legal, product, finance, compliance, risk and other functions across multiple countries and time zones.
• Opportunity to support global licensing, product expansion and complex regulatory matters.
• U.S.-based employees receive medical, dental and vision insurance, a 401(k) plan, disability and life insurance.
• U.S.-based employees receive 20 paid vacation days and 12 paid company holidays annually.