layiq

/la·yiq/adjective

worthy; deserving; fitting; suitable.

A role, opportunity, or path that merits attention, time, and pursuit.

LAYIQ - Counsel, Product Legal (Yield) at Airwallex

Essentials
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.
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.
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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.

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