Senior Counsel, Product Legal (Yield)

Location: Hybrid work from the San Francisco or New York office on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays.

Base salary: $180,000–$270,000 per year, with potential equity and bonus compensation.

Company

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

What you will do

• Provide legal support to the global Yield product team from product ideation and design through launch, market expansion, and ongoing changes.
• Advise on legal and regulatory requirements for launching Yield and comparable investment products in new jurisdictions.
• Translate cross-jurisdictional requirements into product requirements, customer terms, disclosures, and launch-readiness materials.
• Partner with Product, Regulatory Legal, Compliance, Licensing, Risk, Marketing, Operations, and regulated partners.
• Build scalable legal playbooks, governance processes, launch checklists, and repeatable approaches for efficient expansion.
• Coordinate legal advice across the United States, Canada, Singapore, Australia, Europe, and other relevant markets.

Requirements

• JD or equivalent law degree and active bar membership in at least one U.S. jurisdiction.
• 7+ years of post-qualification legal experience, including experience at a top-tier law firm or in a comparable financial-services legal environment.
• Experience advising on investment products, wealth management, investment management, broker-dealer arrangements, custodial relationships, or related disclosures and documentation.
• Strong regulatory advisory and product-counselling experience, including licensing or establishment of investment services.
• Experience translating legal and regulatory requirements into practical, commercially minded product solutions.
• Ability to manage complex cross-jurisdictional workstreams and collaborate with senior stakeholders across functions and time zones.

Nice to have

• In-house experience in fintech, financial services, wealth management, asset management, securities, brokerage, or another regulated financial-services environment.
• Experience with banks, broker-dealers, custodians, investment managers, or other regulated partners.
• Experience across securities, investment-adviser, investor-protection, fiduciary, or suitability frameworks in multiple jurisdictions.
• Experience building legal playbooks, product-governance processes, or launch checklists.
• Experience supporting product launches or market expansion in Australia, New Zealand, Hong Kong, Singapore, the Netherlands, the United States, or other relevant markets.

Culture & Benefits

• Work in a fast-moving, product-led environment with evolving priorities and incomplete information.
• Collaborate with colleagues across multiple countries and time zones, with occasional flexibility in working hours.
• US-based employees are eligible for medical, dental, and vision insurance, a 401(k) plan, disability coverage, life insurance, and well-being benefits.
• US-based employees receive 20 paid vacation days and 12 paid company holidays per calendar year.
• Additional compensation may include annual bonuses, commissions, RSUs, equity, or other forms of compensation.