Counsel, Product Legal (Strategic Partnerships)

About Airwallex

Airwallex is the AI-native financial operating system for a real-time, intelligent economy. More than 676,000 businesses, including McLaren Racing, Qantas, SHEIN, and TikTok, use us, directly or through our platform partners, to run their financial operations or build and monetize financial products of their own.

We started in Melbourne in 2015 to build the infrastructure global commerce runs on. We're the regulated backbone behind global payments: not by accident, but by design. A decade plus, 85+ licenses, and a financial infrastructure spanning North America, Europe, the Middle East, and Asia-Pacific.

We're co-headquartered in San Francisco and Singapore, with more than 2,300 people across 27 offices. We hire builders with founder-level energy, people who move fast with good judgment, dig in with real curiosity, and make calls from first principles rather than waiting to be told what to do. Read our operating principles to see it in full.

About the team

Legal & Licensing at Airwallex sits at the heart of the decisions that shape how Airwallex grows. This team backs the visionary builders transforming Airwallex into a generational financial company, sharing the journey of product development and sales alongside our business partners. You’ll help shape a global licensing footprint most fintechs wish they had, while making sure our brand and data architecture stay best-in-class for customers entering the agentic economy and ready for its regulatory demands. The hard part is helping the business move fast on product, revenue, and new-market expansion without compromising the regulatory discipline that protects the moat.

It’s a team for lawyers, strategists, and licensing specialists with commercial instincts, sharp judgment, and an obsession with customer-first outcomes. If you want to guide executive decisions and help build the licensing, structure, and judgment behind what comes next, this is where legal has real leverage.

What you'll do

As Counsel in the Product Legal team, you will be a valuable member of the global Product Legal team and will help our rapidly growing business navigate an increasingly complex regulatory landscape. Although you will be based in the US, you will have multi-regional responsibility by supporting our product and partnership strategy and advising on complex technology transactions globally. You will build strong business relationships with business teams and understand the business environment. When you don’t know the answer, you’ll know how to obtain the answer and explain it to business partners. This dynamic role is ideal for someone who enjoys wearing multiple hats and solving complex issues for our internal and external partners, is detail oriented, willing to take on challenges and changes, obsessively curious and intellectually honest, thrives on taking actions and delivering impactful results, and aims to inspire and be inspired. Experience in fintech or payments is welcomed, as is a demonstrated passion for mastering something new. Relevant subject-matter expertise may include knowledge of payments, card networks, and banking.

This role is based in New York City.

Responsibilities:

• You will serve as a dedicated thought partner for our Strategic Partnership team and will support negotiations on complex and novel agreements with our strategic partners, help manage the process and help review and draft the agreements.
• Provide advice and support to the product team, local legal teams, support functions, Airwallex management, and the Legal, Risk, and Compliance Department.
• Coordinate with local counsel across jurisdictions globally to discern and devise optimal paths to market from a legal and regulatory perspective
• Liaise with senior stakeholders of the Airwallex group, located around the world.
• Manage external counsel and consultants on regulatory matters.

Who you are

We're looking for people who meet the minimum requirements for this role. The preferred qualifications are great to have, but are not mandatory.

Minimum qualifications:

• 5+ years of experience as a lawyer at a top firm, in-house or a combination of both.
• Strong stakeholder management skills and ability to deal with a range of internal and external stakeholders
• Versatility in supporting Product in an advisory role and in supporting the business on commercial documents and terms
• Proactive, results-driven, and take ownership of your work.
• Ability to multi-task and a team player with strong communication skills
• Strong drafting skills
• Ability to master new areas of the law quickly
• High levels of professionalism, integrity, and a strong work ethic, including a readiness to lend a helping hand to teammates

Preferred qualifications:

• In-house legal experience gained ideally in the fintech industry or financial institutions
• Subject-matter expertise in payments, card networks, or fintech
• Experience working with stakeholders across the globe

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Equal opportunity

Airwallex is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We value diversity and anyone seeking employment at Airwallex is considered based on merit, qualifications, competence and talent. We don’t regard color, religion, race, national origin, sexual orientation, ancestry, citizenship, sex, marital or family status, disability, gender, or any other legally protected status when making our hiring decisions. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know.