# Senior Counsel, Product Legal

**Company**: Airwallex
**Location**: San Francisco, California
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $200K - $280K
**Category**: Legal
**Industry**: Finance

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## Description

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.

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## Skills

### Required
- regulatory advisory
- product counseling
- financial institutions
- fintechs
- legal experience

### Nice to have
- in-house experience
- investment products
- discretionary management
- broker-dealer arrangements
- custodial relationships

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