Senior Counsel, Product Legal (Fintech)

Location: Hybrid in San Francisco or New York, with office attendance on Mondays, Wednesdays and Thursdays.

Salary: $200K–$280K, plus equity and bonus.

Company

Airwallex is an AI-native financial operating system and regulated payments infrastructure provider serving businesses across North America, Europe, the Middle East, and Asia-Pacific.

What you will do

• Own legal support for the Yield product from ideation through launch, market expansion, and ongoing changes.
• Provide fast, commercially focused legal and regulatory guidance to Product teams.
• Advise on product design, licensing, regulatory engagement, partner arrangements, customer terms, disclosures, integrations, and launch readiness.
• Determine the requirements for launching Yield or equivalent products in new jurisdictions with regulatory colleagues and external counsel.
• Translate cross-jurisdictional regulations into product requirements, governance processes, playbooks, checklists, and customer-facing materials.
• Coordinate advice across Product, Compliance, Licensing, Risk, Marketing, Operations, and regulated partners in the US, Canada, Singapore, Australia, Europe, and other markets.

Requirements

• JD or equivalent degree and active bar membership in at least one US jurisdiction.
• 7+ years of legal experience, including at least some experience at a top-tier law firm.
• Strong regulatory advisory and/or product counseling experience for financial institutions or fintechs.
• Experience as a solution-oriented lawyer working strategically with non-lawyers to support commercial outcomes.

Nice to have

• In-house experience at a fintech, financial services, asset management, brokerage, or other regulated financial services organization.
• Experience advising on investment products, investment management, broker-dealer arrangements, custodial relationships, or FINRA-regulated structures and equivalents.
• Experience working with banks, broker-dealers, custodians, investment managers, or other regulated partners.
• Experience building playbooks, product governance processes, or market expansion processes.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills across global Product, Compliance, Risk, Operations, Marketing, external counsel, and regulated partners.
• Ability to own complex cross-jurisdictional workstreams from ideation through launch.
• Experience working in high-standard, fast-iteration environments with evolving priorities and a collaborative, ownership-oriented approach.

Culture & Benefits

• Full-time employment with a hybrid schedule based in the San Francisco or New York office.
• Work with a global Product Legal team supporting products in existing and new markets.
• Salary of $200K–$280K with equity and bonus opportunities.
• Work across a regulated financial infrastructure organization with more than 2,700 employees and 27 offices.

Hiring process

• Apply through careers.airwallex.com or Airwallex’s official LinkedIn page.
• Official recruitment communication comes from an @airwallex.com email address; Airwallex does not accept unsolicited recruiter submissions.
• Airwallex will not request bank details, sensitive identification numbers, or payment during the application or interview process.