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Lead Counsel, Payments & Regulatory (APAC)

Rippling· Legal & Compliance
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Sydney, Australiafull-timePosted 4w ago

About the role

Experienced payments and regulatory lawyer leading Rippling’s global payments platform across APAC, with a focus on Australia, Singapore, and New Zealand. Build legal/regulatory infrastructure for the payments/financial-services product stack, support product launches, and drive regulatory engagement and compliance-by-design across APAC.

Responsibilities

  • Lead legal and regulatory support for Rippling’s payments and financial-services products across APAC, with a focus on Australia, New Zealand, and Singapore.
  • Counsel product and business teams on new payments product launches, payment flows, licensing strategy, regulatory obligations, customer disclosures, marketing, and operational controls.
  • Advise on licensing and authorization applications, regulator interactions, supervisory inquiries, regulatory filings, and ongoing obligations under payments and financial-services licenses.
  • Monitor and interpret payments, AML/CFT, stored value, e-money, cross-border transfer, FX, and related regulatory developments across APAC, and translate them into practical guidance for stakeholders.
  • Build scalable legal review processes, launch-readiness frameworks, and compliance-by-design practices for new and evolving payments products.
  • Manage external counsel across APAC jurisdictions and synthesize local-law advice into practical recommendations for product and business teams.
  • Support launches beyond APAC as needed, partnering with global legal colleagues, compliance teams, and local counsel.

Qualifications

  • 6+ years experience in a payments legal role (money transmission, e-money/stored value, banking-as-a-service, remittance or general fintech)
  • Strong understanding of the payments ecosystem and regulatory environment in APAC jurisdictions, such as Singapore and/or Australia, including payment and AML/CFT regulations
  • Experience advising on licensing or authorization applications, regulator engagement, regulatory filings, license conditions, and ongoing compliance obligations
  • Experience counseling product and engineering teams on regulated product launches and converting legal requirements into practical implementation guidance
  • Experience building trusted relationships and an ability to collaborate with senior stakeholders
  • Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
  • Excellent communicator with the ability to break down complex requirements into easy-to-understand and practical advice
  • Ability to work with multiple deadlines under pressure
  • Entrepreneurial mindset, self-starting, and comfortable working in a highly dynamic and complex global organisational environment
  • Sense of Humor

Skills

Required:Payments regulatory expertiseRegulatory strategy and licensingProduct/legal collaborationRegulatory monitoringExternal counsel management

Benefits

  • Not specified in the description
Last updated Sep 23, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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