Senior Counsel, Product Legal (Fintech)

Location: Singapore; onsite

Company

Airwallex is an AI-native financial operating system and regulated global payments infrastructure company serving more than 675,000 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 product changes.
• Advise Product with clear, commercially practical guidance on product design, licensing, regulatory engagement, partner arrangements, customer terms, disclosures, and integrations.
• Determine launch requirements for Yield or equivalent products in new jurisdictions with local regulatory colleagues and external counsel.
• Translate cross-jurisdictional regulation into product requirements, customer terms, disclosures, and launch-readiness materials.
• Build playbooks, launch checklists, and product-governance processes to scale market expansion.
• Coordinate advice and relationships across Product, Regulatory Legal, Compliance, Licensing, Risk, Marketing, Operations, and regulated partners in Singapore, the United States, Canada, Australia, Europe, and other markets.

Requirements

• Qualified lawyer in Singapore or another common-law jurisdiction, with a JD or equivalent law degree.
• 7+ years of post-qualification legal experience, including experience at a top-tier law firm or in a comparable financial-services legal environment.
• Strong regulatory advisory and/or product-counselling experience for financial institutions or fintechs.
• Solution-oriented legal practice with strategic collaboration 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 company.
• Experience with investment products, discretionary or non-discretionary management, broker-dealer arrangements, custodial relationships, investment-management structures, or US broker-dealer and FINRA-regulated arrangements.
• 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 in fast-moving environments with high standards and evolving priorities, using a curious, collaborative, and ownership-oriented approach.

Culture & Benefits

• Work with a global Product Legal team supporting the development and launch of products in existing and new markets.
• Collaborate across a regulated, multi-regional financial infrastructure business and its global product teams.
• Operate in an environment emphasizing founder-level energy, curiosity, sound judgment, ownership, and first-principles decision-making.

Hiring process

• Apply only through careers.airwallex.com or Airwallex’s official LinkedIn page.
• Official communication comes from an @airwallex.com email address; Airwallex will not request bank details, sensitive identity numbers, or payment during the application or interview process.
• Unsolicited resumes from search firms or recruiters are not accepted unless an agreement exists for the specific open position.