Counsel, Product Legal, Financial Partnerships

Airwallex
Singapore, Kuala Lumpur
Workplace: OnsiteFull timeFunction: Business Development & PartnershipsExperience: 5+ yearsSkills: ["Communication","Stakeholder management","Negotiation","Contracts","Risk management"]

Legal counsel role focused on structuring, negotiating, and scaling complex deals with banking partners, payment schemes, and strategic partners. Based in Singapore, you’ll collaborate with product, risk, and partnerships teams, design repeatable contracting playbooks, and embed AI-enabled workflows to improve speed and quality while balancing commercial aims with risk controls in a high-growth fintech environment.

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Airwallex
2 months ago

Counsel, Product Legal, Financial Partnerships

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Job Summary

Legal counsel role focused on structuring, negotiating, and scaling complex deals with banking partners, payment schemes, and strategic partners. Based in Singapore, you’ll collaborate with product, risk, and partnerships teams, design repeatable contracting playbooks, and embed AI-enabled workflows to improve speed and quality while balancing commercial aims with risk controls in a high-growth fintech environment.
Location: Singapore, Kuala Lumpur
Workplace: Onsite
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Business Development & Partnerships

Key Responsibilities

  • •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.

Key Requirements

  • •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 services.
  • •Deep experience drafting and negotiating complex commercial and regulatory‑sensitive agreements with banks, payment schemes or other financial partners, ideally across multiple regions.
  • •Proven experience advising on and negotiating strategic partnerships with large technology, platform or ecosystem partners, including multi‑product and multi‑market arrangements.
  • •Demonstrated ability to build and improve legal processes, playbooks and templates that enable efficient, repeatable contracting at scale, while maintaining strong controls and clear escalation paths.
  • •Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence senior commercial, product and risk leaders in a fast‑moving, high‑growth environment.
Experience:5+ yearsFintechPaymentsBankingLegal
Skills:CommunicationStakeholder managementNegotiationContractsRisk management
Languages:English
Tech Stack:AIAI toolingContract analytics

Company Brief

Airwallex
Airwallex is a global payments and financial platform that provides business accounts, cross-border payments, treasury, corporate cards, and embedded finance APIs to help companies manage global financial operations and scale internationally.
Industry: Fintech Infrastructure
Company Size: Enterprise (1,001+ employees)
Revenue: USD 1B+
Growth: Scaleup
Valuation: Unicorn (USD 1B+)
Funding: Series E+
Headquarters: Singapore, Singapore
Founded: 2015
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