Senior Counsel, Product Legal

In this role, you will be the lead counsel for Airwallex's Yield product, providing legal, regulatory, and strategic advice on the product lifecycle.

Responsibilities:

• Own legal for Yield end-to-end and support the global Yield team from ideation through launch, market expansion, and ongoing changes.
• Provide Product with fast, clear answers by saying yes, no, or 'here's the path,' and explain why so the team learns as it goes.
• Open new markets and work out what it takes to launch Yield, or an equivalent product, in each new jurisdiction, alongside local regulatory colleagues and external counsel.
• 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 so each new market moves faster than the last.
• Be the go-to expert and build trusted relationships across Product, Regulatory Legal, Compliance, Licensing, Risk, Product Marketing, Operations, and regulated partners.
• Work as one global team and coordinate advice across the US, Canada, Singapore, Australia, Europe, and other markets.

Requirements:

• A JD or equivalent and active bar membership in at least one US jurisdiction.
• 7+ 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.

Preferred qualifications:

• 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, or the equivalent elsewhere.
• 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.