# Employment Counsel, Americas

**Company**: Airwallex
**Location**: US - San Francisco; US - New York; US - Seattle
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: Full time
**Salary**: $130K - $200K
**Category**: Legal
**Industry**: Finance

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## Description

## Compensation

The base salary for this role is $130K – $200K, with additional compensation options such as equity and bonus.

## How you'll make impact

As Employment Counsel for Airwallex in the Americas, you'll be a hands-on partner to People & Talent on employment matters that carry the most risk. You'll help build playbooks, policies, and processes for a scaling employment function to provide clear, commercially practical advice across the business.

Key responsibilities include:

- Providing US employment law advice and coordinating guidance across other jurisdictions

- Building employment playbooks, templates, policies, and manager guidance

- Leading workplace investigations, employment disputes, agency charges, and litigation

- Partnering with People & Talent, Total Rewards, Data & Privacy, Corporate Legal, and business leaders on employee lifecycle matters

- Advising on hiring, contracts, performance management, accommodations, leaves, wage and hour compliance, and terminations

## What we're looking for

### Essentials

- A J.D. degree or foreign equivalent and active membership in at least one US state bar

- 5+ years of employment law experience at a leading law firm and/or in-house legal department

- Experience advising on and coordinating employment law matters across multiple jurisdictions

- Experience leading workplace investigations and managing employment disputes

- The ability to translate complex legal issues into clear guidance for non-legal audiences

- Strong judgment and the ability to give commercially practical advice under time pressure

- Fluent English

### Preferred

- Experience at a fintech, payments company, or other highly regulated business

- Experience with contractor classification, employer-of-record populations, or cross-border remote work

- Experience with California Labor Code matters

- Experience advising on immigration, restructuring, or RIF execution

- Experience with works councils or statutory employee representation

## Benefits

Benefits vary by country and employment type. US-based employees are eligible for medical, dental, and vision insurance, a 401(k) plan, short-term and long-term disability, basic life insurance, and well-being benefits. They also receive 20 paid days of vacation and 12 paid days of company holidays in a calendar year.

## Skills

### Required
- employment law
- US state bar membership
- jurisdictional guidance
- workplace investigations
- employment disputes
- commercially practical advice

### Nice to have
- fintech
- payments company
- contractor classification
- cross-border remote work
- California Labor Code
- immigration
- restructuring
- RIF execution
- works councils

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