--- title: 'Senior Counsel, Product Legal (Yield) at Airwallex' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/senior-counsel-product-legal-yield-airwallex-singapore-zgb2j1hh0njm' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-11-04' --- # Senior Counsel, Product Legal (Yield) at Airwallex - **Company:** [Airwallex](https://feeny.ai/companies/airwallex) - **Location:** Singapore - **Employment:** full-time - **Work type:** onsite - **Posted:** 2026-11-03 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-11-04 - **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/airwallex/e72f18bd-991e-4ac2-8707-7c8e8040f927 ## Job description ## 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](https://www.airwallex.com/en-us/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 minimizing local risk. - Partner across jurisdictions and time zones, including with colleagues and product leaders based in Australia, and coordinate advice across Singapore, the United States, Canada, Australia, Europe and other relevant markets. This role is based in Singapore. ## What we're looking for Essentials - Qualified lawyer (Singapore or common law jurisdiction), JD, or equivalent law degree - 7+ 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 counseling 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 work streams, prioritize 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. ## Preferred - In-house legal experience in fintech, financial services, wealth management, asset management, securities, brokerage or another regulated financial-services environment. - Experience working with banks, broker-dealers, custodians, investment managers or other regulated partners. - Experience across securities, investment-adviser, investor-protection, fiduciary, suitability or equivalent regulatory frameworks in multiple jurisdictions. - Experience building scalable legal playbooks, product-governance processes, launch checklists or other tools that improve legal efficiency. - Experience supporting product launches or market expansion across jurisdictions such as Australia, New Zealand, Hong Kong, Singapore, the Netherlands, the United States or other relevant markets. - Comfort operating in a fast-moving, product-led environment with high standards, evolving priorities and incomplete information. You'll thrive here if - You're comfortable making decisions with incomplete information and moving quickly anyway. - You're consistently looking to take on new and diverse challenges, expand your knowledge beyond your current areas of expertise, and are comfortable stepping outside your comfort zone to do it. - You enjoy working closely with people across multiple countries and time zones as part of one connected, global team, including flexing your hours occasionally to make that connection work. - You say what you mean. You're direct, but you lead with respect. - You connect dots across functions and hold the big picture without losing grip on the details. Learn more about your team The Yield team at Airwallex is one of our fastest-growing business units. We build the investment product that lets customers earn returns on multi-currency cash without locking it up like a traditional term deposit, connecting to money-market funds and handling KYC, settlement, and accounting behind the scenes. Following our recent market launch, we're focused on leveraging that flexibility to drive customer stickiness and long-term engagement. If you want to help scale one of Airwallex's newest, fastest-growing products across currencies and markets, this is where that work happens. If you're driven by innovation and keen to make a meaningful impact, Yield is the perfect place for you. Applicant Safety Policy: Fraud and Third-Party Recruiters To protect you from recruitment scams, please be aware that Airwallex will not ask for bank details, sensitive ID numbers (i.e. passport), or any form of payment during the application or interview process. All official communication will come from an @[airwallex.com](http://airwallex.com) email address. Please apply only through [careers.airwallex.com](http://careers.airwallex.com) or our official LinkedIn page. Airwallex does not accept unsolicited resumes from search firms/recruiters. Airwallex will not pay any fees to search firms/recruiters if a candidate is submitted by a search firm/recruiter unless an agreement has been entered into with respect to specific open position(s). Search firms/recruiters submitting resumes to Airwallex on an unsolicited basis shall be deemed to accept this condition, regardless of any other provision to the contrary. ## Equal opportunity Airwallex is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We value diversity and anyone seeking employment at Airwallex is considered based on merit, qualifications, competence and talent. We don’t regard color, religion, race, national origin, sexual orientation, ancestry, citizenship, sex, marital or family status, disability, gender, or any other legally protected status when making our hiring decisions. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know. ## About Airwallex ## Company Overview - **One-liner**: Airwallex is a financial technology company building a unified global payments and banking platform that helps businesses manage cross-border payments, treasury, spend, and financial operations through proprietary infrastructure, software, and AI. - **Entity Type**: Private (Series G) - **Headquarters**: Dual headquarters in Singapore and San Francisco, USA; founded in Melbourne, Australia - **Founded**: 2015 - **Founders**: Jack Zhang (CEO), Lucy Liu, Max Li, Xijing Dai, and Ron Li ## Core Business - Primary industry: Financial Services / Payments / Fintech Infrastructure - Target customers: B2B, primarily serving SMBs, scaling enterprises, digital platforms, and marketplaces globally - Mission or purpose statement: "Build the future of global banking" — they aim to replace legacy, fragmented banking systems with a borderless, intelligent, real-time financial operating system for modern businesses. ## Products & Services - **[Business Accounts]**: Multi-currency global accounts to receive, hold, and manage funds in 20+ currencies, with local account details for key markets. - **[Payments]**: Global payment acceptance via 160+ local payment methods, low-code checkout, and programmatic payout capabilities to 200+ countries. - **[Spend / Corporate Cards]**: Multi-currency corporate and employee cards with customisable spend controls, designed for global teams. - **[Expense Management]**: A platform to track, control, and reconcile global business expenses, including employee reimbursements. - **[Billing & Subscription Management]**: A billing platform for usage-based and subscription pricing models, supporting AI companies and complex revenue workflows. - **[Platform APIs]**: API-first infrastructure enabling businesses to embed financial services (accounts, payments, FX, card issuing) into their own products. - **[FX & Treasury]**: Interbank foreign exchange rates and tools to intelligently manage currency risk across markets. ## Market Standing - **Valuation**: US$11 billion (latest valuation in 2025, following a fresh investment round). - **Key Metric**: US$1.8 billion in total funding raised; Annual Recurring Revenue (ARR) surpassed US$1 billion by 2025. - **Notable Investors/Partners**: Series G investors include prominent global venture capital firms (specific names not listed in source but backed by top-tier VCs); serves over 200,000 businesses including TikTok, Brex, Rippling, Navan, Qantas, and SHEIN. - **Growth Signals**: - US$287 billion in global payments processed (USD). - 92% of transfers settled same-day, 50% processed instantly. - Over 85 financial licenses and registrations globally. - Team of ~2,300 people across 27 offices internationally. - Dual-headquarters model (Singapore + San Francisco) adopted in 2025 to support next phase of growth. ## Competitive Advantages - Proprietary, API-first infrastructure built from scratch (not riding legacy banking rails), enabling faster, cheaper, and more transparent cross-border transactions. - Unified platform combining banking, payments, spend management, billing, and FX — reducing the need for multiple vendors. - Deep AI integration across the platform to automate financial operations and provide intelligent insights. - Extensive regulatory licensing (85+ licenses) across major markets, creating a high barrier to entry. - Strong network effects: serves both direct businesses and platforms/marketplaces that embed Airwallex into their offerings. ## Strategic Focus - Continue scaling the platform to support the rapid growth of AI-native companies and usage-based business models (highlighted by the launch of their global billing platform). - Expand the dual-headquarters presence to tap into the largest tech talent markets (San Francisco and Singapore). - Invest heavily in AI to build "interconnected, intelligent financial systems where money, data, and decisions move together." - Deepen product capabilities to automate financial operations end-to-end for global businesses. ## Why Work Here - High-growth, ambitious environment: described as "the most ambitious work of your career" by the company; founded in 2015 and already processing $287B in payments. - Global impact and scale: work on infrastructure used by 200,000+ businesses, from startups to enterprises like TikTok and SHEIN. - Hybrid/office culture: 27 offices globally (Melbourne, Singapore, San Francisco, London, Shanghai, Amsterdam, and more) offering opportunities to work across teams and locations. - Engineering-driven culture: heavy emphasis on building proprietary technology, AI, and developer-first products. - Notable perks: opportunity to work on a modern financial stack, exposure to cutting-edge AI/Fintech intersection, and a diverse, international team of "2,200 of the brightest and most innovative people in tech." ## Sources 1. [airwallex.com - Who We Are](https://www.airwallex.com/en-eu/who-we-are) 2. [airwallex.com - Global Platform](https://www.airwallex.com/global) 3. [careers.airwallex.com](https://careers.airwallex.com/) 4. [LinkedIn - Airwallex](https://www.linkedin.com/company/airwallex) 5. 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