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Regulatory Counsel, Americas

Airwallex· Regulatory & Compliance
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US - New York, US - San Francisco$150k - $220kFull-timePosted 2mo ago

About the role

Regulatory Counsel focusing on regulatory matters across the Americas, advising on payments and financial services licensing, registrations, and cross-border product offerings. Hybrid role based in San Francisco or New York.

Responsibilities

  • Support regulatory legal matters relating to Airwallex’s business across the Americas, including advice on existing licenses and registrations and potential future applications.
  • Research and summarize developments in payments and financial services regulation, identifying potential impacts on business operations and strategic objectives.
  • Partner with Product Legal, Regulatory Compliance, Risk and Financial Crime Compliance teams on regulatory questions involving money transmission, stored value, FX, remittance, card issuing and related financial-services products.
  • Support Product, Strategy, Management and Commercial teams on new market entry, license expansion and regulatory mapping for new products and features.
  • Analyze how funds move through different payment structures and help identify the applicable licensing and regulatory requirements, escalating complex issues when appropriate.
  • Provide clear, practical legal guidance and risk assessments to cross-functional stakeholders, with appropriate support from senior counsel and external advisers.
  • Support the management of external legal counsel and consultants, including preparing instructions, reviewing advice and tracking deliverables and costs.
  • Assist with regulatory filings, submissions and responses in relevant Americas jurisdictions in partnership with Regulatory Compliance and senior legal counsel.
  • Monitor regulatory developments and help translate changes into practical guidance, procedures and implementation requirements.
  • Leverage AI and other tooling to improve the scale, efficiency and effectiveness of the Regulatory Legal team.
  • Contribute to government-relations and policy work, including research and preparation for outreach to legislators and regulatory agencies.

Qualifications

  • Qualified lawyer with 5 years of relevant post-qualification experience.
  • Regulatory, financial-services or fintech experience gained in-house, in private practice or at a financial institution.
  • Exposure to payments, money transmission, e-money, FX, remittances, card issuing, digital financial services or another closely related regulatory area.
  • Working understanding of the US financial-services regulatory environment, with an interest in developing deeper expertise in state money-transmitter licensing and payment flows.
  • Ability to research complex legal and regulatory questions and translate findings into clear, practical advice.
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to explain legal topics to non-lawyers.
  • Strong collaboration and stakeholder-management skills, including the judgment to escalate issues appropriately.
  • Proactive, organized and ownership-oriented, with the ability to manage multiple priorities and deadlines in a fast-paced environment.
  • Comfortable working through ambiguity, learning quickly and operating as part of a global team.

Skills

Required:Regulatory law in fintech/payments

Benefits

  • Base $150K – $220K
  • Offers Equity
  • Offers Bonus
  • US-based benefits include medical, dental, vision insurance, 401(k), short-term and long-term disability, basic life insurance, well-being benefits, 20 paid vacation days, 12 paid holidays per year
Last updated Oct 7, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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