Senior Counsel

About Airwallex

Airwallex is the only unified payments and financial platform for global businesses. Powered by our unique combination of proprietary infrastructure and software, we empower over 100,000 businesses worldwide – including Brex, Rippling, Navan, Qantas, SHEIN and many more – with fully integrated solutions to manage everything from business accounts, payments, spend management and treasury, to embedded finance at a global scale.

Proudly founded in Melbourne, we have a team of over 1,500 of the brightest and most innovative people in tech located across more than 20 offices across the globe. Valued at US$5.6 billion and backed by world-leading investors including Sequoia, Lone Pine, Greenoaks, DST Global, Salesforce Ventures and Mastercard, Airwallex is leading the charge in building the global payments and financial platform of the future. If you’re ready to do the most ambitious work of your career, join us.

About the team

The Legal, Risk & Compliance (LRC) team at Airwallex is a collaborative group of legal minds and risk management experts. We’re passionate about safeguarding Airwallex’s operations, fostering a culture of compliance and ethical conduct, and ensuring we navigate the global financial landscape with integrity. We provide expert guidance and support to all areas of the business, proactively identifying, mitigating, and managing legal and financial risks.

What you’ll do

You will strategically partner with sales leadership, providing proactive and effective legal support to enable the region to achieve their ambitious business goals.

This role is based in San Francisco, New York City or Austin.

Responsibilities:

• Support the Americas Sales team and lead, manage, and close deals with our most strategic users

• Play a pivotal role in building and scaling Airwallex’s commercial legal infrastructure to maximize operational efficiencies and keep pace with Airwallex’s fast growth. This work includes creating and improving contract templates, negotiation playbooks, more efficient processes, and internal trainings

• Work closely with cross-functional partners on user deals, including sales, product legal, tax, operations, compliance, and risk

• Provide practical legal guidance on how to navigate rules and regulations for new deals and customers in the Americas

• Provide legal strategies to facilitate the rollout of our products to customers locally, regionally, and globally

• Support expansion and launches to customers in new markets

• Work with the compliance and risk teams globally to align on Airwallex’s policies

Who you are

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

Minimum qualifications:

• 8+ years of post-qualification experience in commercial, financial service and corporate law preferably with a fast-growing tech startup or law firm

• LLB, LLM or Juris Doctor

• A business pragmatist that focuses on "win-win" solutions and positive sum negotiations

• A creative problem solver that loves to challenge assumptions, rethink norms, and chase down solutions to thorny problems

• A keen interest in financial services regulation and the fintech industry 

• In-depth knowledge of the legal and business environment in the Americas region

• Outstanding negotiation, communication, and leadership skills

• The ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams

• Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities

Preferred qualifications:

• Fluency in Spanish and/or Portuguese

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.

Airwallex does not accept unsolicited resumes from search firms/recruiters.  Airwallex will not pay any fees to search firms/recruiters if a candidate is submitted by a search firm/recruiter unless an agreement has been entered into with respect to specific open position(s).  Search firms/recruiters submitting resumes to Airwallex on an unsolicited basis shall be deemed to accept this condition, regardless of any other provision to the contrary.