Counsel, Product Legal, Financial and Strategic Partnerships

About the role

The Legal and Licensing team at Airwallex is a collaborative group of legal minds and licensing experts. We provide expert guidance and support to all areas of the business, proactively identifying, mitigating, and managing legal and financial risks.

Responsibilities

• As Counsel, Product Legal, Financial & Strategic Partnerships, you will play a key role in the legal strategy and execution for Airwallex's global network of banking and strategic partners, with a primary base in Singapore.
• In addition to working on complex deals, you will design processes and playbooks that enable fast, repeatable contracting, and help embed AI into our workflows to increase quality and velocity.
• This dynamic role is ideal for a product / partnerships lawyer who is comfortable operating at pace in a high‑growth fintech, balancing commercial outcomes with rigorous risk management, and thrives on taking action and delivering results
• This role is based in Singapore.
• 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.
• Lead legal support for strategic partnerships with global technology, ecosystem and platform partners, ensuring fund flows, data flows and user journeys are robust, scalable and compliant across multiple jurisdictions.
• 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 banking and strategic 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, Strategic 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.

Requirements

• We're looking for people who meet the minimum requirements for this role. The preferred qualifications are great to have, but are not mandatory.
• 5+ 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 s

Additional Information

About Airwallex Airwallex is the only unified payments and financial platform for global businesses. Powered by our unique combination of proprietary infrastructure and software, we empower over 200,000 businesses worldwide - including Brex, Rippling, Navan, Qantas, SHEIN and many more - with fully integrated solutions to manage everything from business accounts, payments, spend management and treasury, to embedded finance at a global scale. Proudly founded in Melbourne, we have a team of over 2,200 of the brightest and most innovative people in tech across 26 offices around the globe. Valued at US$8 billion and backed by world-leading investors including T. Rowe Price, Visa, Mastercard, Robinhood Ventures, Sequoia, Salesforce Ventures, DST Global, and Lone Pine Capital, Airwallex is leading the charge in building the global payments and financial platform of the future. If you're ready to do the most ambitious work of your career, join us. Attributes We Value We hire successful builders with founder-like energy who want real impact, accelerated learning, and true ownership. You bring strong role-related expertise and sharp thinking, and you're motivated by our mission and operating principles . You move fast with good judgment, dig deep with curiosity, and make decisions from first principles, balancing speed and rigor. You're humble and collaborative; turn zero‑to‑one ideas into real products, and you "get stuff done" end-to-end. You use AI to work smarter and solve problems faster. Here, you'll tackle complex, high‑visibility problems with exceptional teammates and grow your career as we build the future of global banking. If that sounds like you, let's build what's next.

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