Counsel, Product Legal (Yield)

Location: San Francisco or New York office; in-office on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays

Base salary: $150K–$220K, plus potential equity and bonus.

Company

Airwallex provides financial infrastructure, global payments, and financial products for businesses across multiple regulated markets.

What you will do

• Provide legal support for the global Yield product from ideation and design through launch, market expansion, and ongoing changes.
• Advise on legal and regulatory requirements for launching 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.
• Develop scalable legal playbooks, governance processes, launch checklists, and repeatable approaches to support 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.
• At least 5 years of post-qualification legal 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-counseling experience, including meaningful experience with wealth-management products.
• Experience advising on licensing or establishing investment services, ideally involving a U.S. broker-dealer or FINRA-regulated service.
• Ability to manage complex cross-jurisdictional workstreams and translate legal requirements into practical, commercially minded solutions.

Nice to have

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

Culture & Benefits

• Work with a global product team across multiple countries and time zones.
• Fast-moving, product-led environment with evolving priorities and complex regulatory challenges.
• U.S.-based employees may receive medical, dental, and vision insurance, a 401(k), disability and life insurance, and well-being benefits.
• U.S.-based employees receive 20 paid vacation days and 12 paid company holidays annually.
• Additional compensation may include equity, annual bonuses, commissions, or RSUs.