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Director, Product Legal (EmFi & Payments)

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Listed for United States

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Employer listed it 12 days ago · Added 10 days ago

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Salary

$240k to $330k per year

Location

Listed for United States

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Contract

Full-time

Experience

Lead

Category

Finance

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Work from home

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  • Job description states: "U.S.-based"

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About the role

About Airwallex

Airwallex is the AI-native financial operating system for a real-time, intelligent economy. More than 675,000 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 2,700 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.

How you'll make impact

Product Legal is an embedded partner to Airwallex’s product organization, helping shape regulated financial products from early ideation through launch. In this role, you’ll lead the legal support for Embedded Finance, Lending, Issuing, and Payments for Platforms while staying close to the highest-impact product and commercial matters.

Lead the product-legal team supporting Embedded Finance, Lending, Issuing, and Payments for Platforms, managing two direct reports while remaining closely involved in the highest-impact matters.

Structure novel Embedded Finance and Lending models for strategic enterprise customers, partnering with Enterprise Sales, Product, Financial Partnerships, Risk, Regulatory Compliance, Engineering, and bank partners.

Provide practical, risk-weighted guidance on U.S. and international payments and financial services laws, including money transmission, AML/BSA, Reg E, UDAAP, card network rules, state licensing, and bank-partner and BaaS requirements.

Advise Product and Engineering from early ideation through PRD review, regulatory structuring, terms drafting, and go-to-market readiness for new products and markets.

Draft, review, and negotiate financial partnership agreements and platform terms and conditions with banks, payment processors, card networks, and other financial partners, including managing terms updates across jurisdictions.

Build scalable legal playbooks, approved use-case repositories, and reference materials that help Product, Commercial Legal, and Sales move faster on recurring deal patterns.

Coordinate with Regulatory Legal, Data & Privacy, Risk, FCC, Commercial Legal, Global Expansion & Licensing, and regional product legal leads on product launches, GRC escalations, and regulatory exam responses.

Serve as the U.S.-based point person for Embedded Finance, own the Lending portfolio, provide secondary support for Issuing, and help the Product Legal team scale its impact beyond one-to-one deal support.

Help Airwallex deliver Product Legal Readiness for prioritized launches across markets including Canada, Mexico, Brazil, and the UAE.

Support customer-facing legal-to-legal discussions and bring deep fintech regulatory credibility to complex commercial opportunities.

You'll work from our San Francisco or New York office on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays.

What we're looking for

Essentials

A JD or equivalent law degree and active bar membership in at least one U.S. jurisdiction.

10+ years of legal experience in payments, fintech, financial services, or a closely related regulated industry, including substantial in-house experience.

Deep expertise in U.S. payments and financial services regulation, including money transmission, AML/BSA, Reg E, UDAAP, card network rules, state licensing, and bank-partner or BaaS program requirements.

A strong fintech lens and the ability to make sound decisions when regulations are evolving, fact patterns are novel, and information is incomplete.

Experience serving as an embedded legal partner to Product and Engineering teams from ideation through launch in a fast-moving fintech or financial services environment.

Requirements

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  • ·Equal opportunity

Benefits

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How to apply

  1. 1Check the flexibility label above, work from home, matches where you plan to live and work.
  2. 2Tailor your CV to the role at Airwallex, mentioning your remote working experience.
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