Counsel – Product Legal

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 150,000 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 1,700 of the brightest and most innovative people in tech across more than 37 locations around 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

Airwallex’s global Product Legal Team works cross-functionally and across multiple jurisdictions to develop and execute legal strategies that facilitate expansion into new markets and sustainable growth of Airwallex’s partnerships infrastructure and operations worldwide. The team is responsible maintaining and deploying new partnership agreements to enable our expanding product suite and geographic coverage, and for putting in place robust legal measures and programs.

What you'll do

As Senior Counsel, Product Partnership 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 Europe, you will have multi-regional responsibility by supporting our product and partnership strategy and advising on complex technology transactions in EMEA, The Americas and APAC. You will also be responsible for ensuring we are compliant with our licensing and other regulatory requirements by implementing appropriate measures and controls. 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.

Responsibilities:

• Coordinate with local counsel across jurisdictions such as Australia, Singapore, Hong Kong, The U.S., The UK., and The European Union to discern and devise optimal paths to market from a legal and regulatory perspective

• Provide advice and support to the product team, local legal teams, support functions, Airwallex management, and the Legal, Risk, and Compliance Department.

• Review and update manuals, policies and procedures to ensure compliance with laws and regulations in the regions in which Airwallex operates 

• Liaise with senior stakeholders of the Airwallex group, located around the world.

• Manage external counsel and consultants on regulatory matters.

• Develop and manage Airwallex’s regulatory submissions and filings, and report on regulatory requirements internally and in regulatory filings 

• Negotiate complex and novel agreements with our strategic and banking partners

• Support government relations outreach to legislators and regulatory agencies

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:

• 8+ years of post-qualification experience

• Strong regulatory experience gained in the fintech industry, reputable law firms or financial institutions

• Strong stakeholder management skills and ability to deal with a range of internal and external stakeholders

• Proactive, results-driven, and take ownership of your work.

• Ability to multi-task and a team player with strong communication skills

• Strong drafting skills

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience working with stakeholders across the globe

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.