# Regulatory Counsel, Americas

**Company**: Airwallex
**Location**: US - New York; US - San Francisco
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: Full time
**Salary**: $150K - $220K
**Category**: Legal
**Industry**: Finance

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## Description

## Compensation

The base salary range for this role is $150K - $220K. The actual compensation offered will depend on multiple factors, including experience, skills, and geographic location.

## About Airwallex

Airwallex is an AI-native financial operating system for a real-time, intelligent economy. More than 675,000 businesses use us to run their financial operations or build and monetize financial products.

## About the team

The Legal, Risk & Compliance (LRC) team at Airwallex safeguards operations, fosters a culture of compliance, and ensures integrity in navigating the global financial landscape.

## What you'll do

You will be primarily responsible for supporting regulatory matters across the Americas region, focusing on advising on regulatory issues relating to payments and financial services.

## Responsibilities:

- Support regulatory legal matters relating to Airwallex’s business across the Americas

- Research and summarize developments in payments and financial services regulation

- Partner with Product Legal, Regulatory Compliance, Risk and Financial Crime Compliance teams on regulatory questions

- Support Product, Strategy, Management and Commercial teams on new market entry and regulatory mapping

- Analyze payment structures and identify applicable licensing and regulatory requirements

- Provide clear, practical legal guidance and risk assessments to cross-functional stakeholders

- Support the management of external legal counsel and consultants

- Assist with regulatory filings, submissions and responses in relevant Americas jurisdictions

- Monitor regulatory developments and translate changes into practical guidance

- Leverage AI and other tooling to improve the scale, efficiency and effectiveness of the Regulatory Legal team

- Contribute to government-relations and policy work

## Who you are

### Minimum qualifications:

- Qualified lawyer with 5 years of relevant post-qualification experience

- Regulatory, financial-services or fintech experience

- Exposure to payments, money transmission, e-money, FX, remittances, card issuing, digital financial services or another closely related regulatory area

- Working understanding of the US financial-services regulatory environment

- Ability to research complex legal and regulatory questions and translate findings into clear, practical advice

- Strong written and verbal communication skills

- Strong collaboration and stakeholder-management skills

- Proactive, organized and ownership-oriented, with the ability to manage multiple priorities and deadlines

### Preferred qualifications:

- Experience supporting state money-transmitter licensing applications

- Experience advising on consumer or commercial financial-services products

- Experience supporting new-market expansion or regulatory analysis for new products and features

- Experience working with US federal or state regulators

- Familiarity with Canadian payments or money-services-business regulation

- Experience using or developing RegTech, LegalTech or AI tools

## Skills

### Required
- regulatory compliance
- financial services
- payments
- money transmission
- e-money
- FX
- remittances
- card issuing
- digital financial services

### Nice to have
- state money-transmitter licensing
- consumer financial-services products
- commercial financial-services products
- new-market expansion
- regulatory analysis
- RegTech
- LegalTech
- AI tools

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