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Counsel, Product Legal (Yield)

Hybrid

Part remote, part office, you need to live within commuting distance of a named location.

Hybrid · US - San Francisco

Employer listed it 12 days ago · Added 10 days ago

First listed 12 days ago and still open.

Salary

$150k to $220k per year

Location

Hybrid · US - San Francisco

Timezone

Not stated

Contract

Full-time

Experience

Mid

What the advert says

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Working hours: Partner across jurisdictions and time zones, including with colleagues and product leaders based in Australia, and coordinate advice across the United States, Canada, Singapore, Australia, Europe and other relevant markets.
Where you can work from: Partner across jurisdictions and time zones, including with colleagues and product leaders based in Australia, and coordinate advice across the United States, Canada, Singapore, Australia, Europe and other relevant markets.
Contract: Not mentioned in the advert
Experience asked for: Not mentioned in the advert
Pay: Not mentioned in the advert

Remote flexibility

Hybrid

This role is only partly remote, the employer expects time in the office around US - San Francisco, US - New York, Hybrid, so you need to live within commuting distance.

What the employer says

Source listing states candidate location: "US - San Francisco, US - New York, Hybrid"
Listing mentions "Hybrid"

What Nomaders makes of it

Not suitable if you plan to move between countries

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Before you apply

Experience: employer states

Written as a nice-to-have

“Experience advising on licensing or the establishment of investment services, ideally including a U.S.”

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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

Airwallex is scaling its Yield product across existing and new markets, creating complex legal and regulatory questions across product design, partner arrangements, customer documentation and launch execution. You'll be the embedded legal partner helping the product team turn those questions into practical solutions.

Own legal support for the global Yield Product team from product design and ideation through launch, market expansion and ongoing product changes.

Advise on the legal and regulatory requirements for launching Yield, or equivalent products, in new jurisdictions, working closely with local regulatory colleagues and external counsel.

Translate complex, cross-jurisdictional requirements into practical product decisions, including product requirements, customer terms, disclosures and launch-readiness materials.

Build trusted relationships with Product, Regulatory Legal, Regulatory Compliance, Licensing, Risk, Product Marketing, Operations and regulated partners, becoming the go-to legal expert for how Yield works and how it can grow responsibly.

Develop scalable legal playbooks, launch checklists, governance processes and repeatable approaches that help the team expand efficiently while minimising local risk.

Partner across jurisdictions and time zones, including with colleagues and product leaders based in Australia, and coordinate advice across the United States, Canada, Singapore, Australia, Europe and other relevant markets.

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.

5+ years of post-qualification legal experience, including experience at a top-tier law firm or in a comparable financial-services legal environment.

Experience advising on investment products, wealth management, discretionary or non-discretionary investment management, broker-dealer arrangements, custodial relationships, investment-management structures or related customer disclosures and documentation.

Strong regulatory advisory and product counselling experience with a reputable law firm, financial institution or fintech, including meaningful experience advising on wealth-management products.

Experience advising on licensing or the establishment of investment services, ideally including a U.S. broker-dealer or FINRA-regulated service, product or equivalent arrangement in another jurisdiction.

A track record of working strategically with non-lawyers and translating legal and regulatory requirements into practical, commercially minded solutions.

Strong stakeholder-management and communication skills, with the ability to work effectively with Product, Compliance, Risk, Operations, Marketing, external counsel, regulated partners and senior stakeholders across multiple jurisdictions.

The ability to manage complex, cross-jurisdictional legal workstreams, prioritise competing demands and own advice from product ideation through launch and expansion.

Curiosity and learning agility, with a willingness to understand unfamiliar regulatory frameworks, markets and customer needs.

Requirements

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·Equal opportunity

Benefits

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How to apply

1Check the flexibility label above, hybrid, matches where you plan to live and work.
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