Senior Counsel, Product Legal - Yield

About the role

Airwallex, the AI-native financial operating system used by more than 675,000 businesses, is looking for a Senior Counsel to lead its Yield product. You will provide legal, regulatory and strategic advice on the Yield product lifecycle, from product design and licensing to partner arrangements, customer terms, disclosures and launch execution. The role carries multi-regional responsibility, supporting the Yield team globally, including in Singapore, the United States, Canada, Australia and Europe.

Key responsibilities

• Own the legal for Yield end to end, supporting the global Yield team from ideation through launch, market expansion and ongoing changes.
• Give Product fast, clear answers and explain the reasoning so the team learns as it goes.
• Open new markets and define what is needed to launch Yield or an equivalent product in each jurisdiction, with local regulatory colleagues and external counsel.
• Turn cross-jurisdictional regulatory requirements into product requirements, customer terms, disclosures and launch-readiness materials.
• Build playbooks, checklists and governance processes so each new market moves faster.
• Act as the go-to expert and build trusted relationships across Product, Regulatory Legal, Compliance, Licensing, Risk, Product Marketing, Operations and regulated partners.
• Coordinate advice across Singapore, the US, Canada, Australia, Europe and other markets, including with product leaders in Australia.

Required profile

• Qualified lawyer (Singapore or common law jurisdiction), JD or equivalent law degree.
• 7+ years of post-qualification legal experience, including at a top-tier law firm or a comparable financial-services legal environment.
• Strong regulatory advisory and/or product-counselling experience for financial institutions or fintechs.
• Solution-orientated lawyer who works strategically with non-lawyers to deliver commercial results.
• Ability to own complex, cross-jurisdictional workstreams from ideation through launch.

Preferred

• In-house experience at a fintech, financial services, asset management, brokerage or other regulated financial services firm.
• Experience advising on investment products, discretionary or non-discretionary management, broker-dealer arrangements, custodial relationships and investment-management structures, including US broker-dealer or FINRA-regulated arrangements.
• 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.
• Experience in fast-paced, high-standard environments with evolving priorities.