Director, Product Legal
AirwallexPayments company
San Francisco, United StatesDirector
Addition
T. Rowe Price
Activant
Lingotto
Robinhood Ventures
TIAA Ventures
Legal & ComplianceNew
About the role
TL;DR
Lead product legal counsel for high-growth financial products, advising on regulation and deal structuring.
- •Airwallex is seeking a Director, Product Legal to lead a product-counsel team focusing on high-growth and complex product lines including Embedded Finance, Payments for Platforms, Issuing, and Lending.
- •This role involves advising on multi-jurisdictional financial regulation and structuring novel deal models to ensure global scalability with legal certainty.
- •Key Responsibilities Serve as lead for a product-counsel team covering Embedded Finance, Payments for Platforms, Issuing, and Lending.
- •Partner with Product, Sales, Partnerships, Risk, and Engineering to structure deals and advise on financial regulation.
- •Draft, review, and negotiate financial partnership agreements and platform terms.
- •Develop scalable legal playbooks and reference documents to enable faster deal cycles.
- •Collaborate with cross-functional teams on product launches and regulatory matters.
- •Requirements JD (or equivalent law degree) and active bar membership in at least one U.S. jurisdiction. 10+ years of experience in payments, complex deal structuring, and financial regulation.
- •Deep working knowledge of U.S. payments and financial services regulatory frameworks.
- •Demonstrated experience serving as an embedded legal partner to product and engineering teams.
- •Strong drafting and negotiation skills for financial partnership agreements.
Required skills
Contract ManagementProduct ManagementPartnership ManagementNegotiationCompliance Management
Nice-to-have skills
M&AVendor ManagementAgileProduct StrategyGo-to-Market
Domain expertise
fintech
Tech stack
PythonJavaScriptTypeScriptJavaGoSQLBashReactVue.jsAngularNode.jsDjangoFlaskFastAPISpringExpressRuby on Rails.NETPandasNumPySparkAirflowdbtTableauPower BILookerSnowflakeDatabricksFivetranDagster
