Senior 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 global markets.

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 launch requirements in each new jurisdiction.
• Convert cross-jurisdictional requirements into product requirements, customer terms, disclosures, and launch-readiness materials.
• Build playbooks, launching checklists, and governance processes to build for scale.
• Build trusted relationships across Product, Regulatory Legal, Compliance, Licensing, Risk, Product Marketing, Operations, and regulated partners.
• Coordinate advice across Singapore, the US, Canada, Australia, Europe, and other markets.

Required qualifications

• Qualified lawyer (Singapore or common law jurisdiction), 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
• 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 workstreams 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 an 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.