Counsel, Product Legal

The role

You will be the lead counsel for the Yield product. You will provide legal, regulatory and strategic advice on the product lifecycle including design, licensing, and launch execution across multiple regions.

What you will do

• Own legal for Yield end to end and support the global Yield team from ideation through launch, market expansion, and ongoing changes.
• Give Product fast, clear answers and explain why.
• Open new markets and work out what it takes to launch Yield in each new jurisdiction.
• Turn regulation into a product and convert cross-jurisdictional requirements into product requirements, customer terms, disclosures, and launch-readiness materials.
• Build for scale by creating playbooks, launching checklists, and governance processes.
• Build trusted relationships across Product, Regulatory Legal, Compliance, Licensing, Risk, Product Marketing, Operations, and regulated partners.
• Coordinate advice across the US, Canada, Australia, Europe, Singapore, and other markets.

Required qualifications

• A JD or equivalent and active bar membership in at least one US jurisdiction.
• 5+ years of legal experience, at least some of which at a top-tier law firm.
• Strong regulatory advisory and/or product counseling experience for financial institutions or fintechs.
• Proven experience of being a solution-orientated lawyer who enjoys working strategically with non-lawyers to support commercial end-results.

Nice to have

• In-house experience at a fintech, financial services, asset management, brokerage firm, or other regulated financial services environment.
• Experience advising on investment products, discretionary or non-discretionary management, broker-dealer arrangements, custodial relationships, investment-management structures including a US broker-d
• 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 skills across global Product, Compliance, Risk, Operations, Marketing, external counsel, and regulated partners.
• The ability to own complex, cross-jurisdictional work streams from ideation through launch.
• Experience operating in environments with high standards, fast iteration cycles and evolving priorities, with a curious, collaborative and ownership-oriented approach

About the company

Airwallex is the AI-native financial operating system for a real-time, intelligent economy. It provides financial infrastructure spanning North America, Europe, the Middle East, and Asia-Pacific.