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Counsel, Product Legal (Yield)

Airwallex· Legal
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Hybrid (US - San Francisco), Hybrid (US - New York)$150k - $220kFull-timePosted 5d ago

About the role

Legal role supporting the Yield product, focusing on complex cross-jurisdictional regulatory and product-related legal issues, partnerships, and launch readiness.

Responsibilities

  • 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.

Qualifications

  • 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.

Skills

Required:Legal counsel leadershipRegulatory advisoryProduct counselling

Benefits

  • Airwallex promotes fair compensation practices.
  • US-based benefits include medical, dental, and vision insurance, 401(k), disability, basic life insurance, well-being benefits, 20 paid vacation days, and 12 paid holidays per year (example for US).
  • Details about compensation and benefits available upon request.
Last updated Oct 22, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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