← All roles

Counsel, Product Legal, Financial Partnerships

Airwallex· Legal
Apply on company site
SG - Singapore, MY - Kuala LumpurFull-timePosted 3mo ago

About the role

Counsel focused on legal strategy and execution for Airwallex’s global network of banking and strategic partners, with a primary base in Singapore. Partners with Financial Partnerships, Product and Risk to structure, negotiate and scale complex deals across issuing, payments, embedded finance, and yield products, while designing scalable contracting processes and embedding AI into workflows.

Responsibilities

  • Lead and execute complex negotiations with banking partners, payment schemes and other financial institutions, using centralized playbooks, escalation matrices and AI‑enabled workflows to manage legal and commercial risk.
  • Establish and maintain high standards for documentation hygiene, including centralized deal trackers, legal risk registers and contract repositories integrated with AI tooling, so the business can self‑serve and re‑use prior work effectively.
  • Design, implement and continuously improve processes, templates and playbooks for contracting with financial partners, including intake, risk review, escalation, execution, storage and implementation handoffs to product domain owners and user terms owners.
  • Champion the use of AI tools in Product Legal, including AI‑assisted contract review, legal risk reviews and PRD analysis, to drive scalable, repeatable workflows and measurable improvements in speed and quality.
  • Partner with Product, Financial Partnerships, Regulatory Legal, Risk and Commercial teams on new product launches, new regions and complex deal structures, ensuring alignment with Airwallex’s licensing, risk appetite and AI‑native strategy.
  • Act as a trusted advisor to executives and deal owners on risk‑weighted options, escalation decisions and trade‑offs in high‑value or strategically significant partnerships.

Qualifications

  • 5-10 years of post‑qualification experience as a lawyer, including significant time at a top‑tier law firm and/or in‑house in fintech, payments, banking or adjacent financial services.
  • Experience drafting and negotiating complex commercial and regulatory‑sensitive agreements, ideally across multiple regions.
  • Demonstrated ability to build and improve legal processes, playbooks and templates that enable efficient, repeatable contracting at scale, while maintaining strong controls and clear escalation paths.
  • Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence senior commercial, product and risk leaders in a fast‑moving, high‑growth environment.
  • Qualified to practice law in a common law jurisdiction (e.g., Singapore, England & Wales, US, Australia) or equivalent, with strong academic credentials.

Skills

Required:NegotiationContract lifecycle management
Nice to have:AI tooling in legal workflows
Last updated Oct 7, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
Airwallex logo

About Airwallex

Trusted Global Payments & Financial Platform

Grow your business faster with Airwallex - global business accounts, high speed transfers, multi-currency cards, online payments, embedded finance, and more.

PaymentsBankingFinancialGlobal
Company profileWebsite

More open roles at Airwallex