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Director, Regulatory Legal
Airwallex
full-time
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Origin: • 🇺🇸 United States • California, New York
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💰 $250,000 - $320,000 per year
Job Level
Lead
About the role
- Provide regulatory legal support for payments, card issuing, card acquiring, Yield, and SaaS offerings across the Americas
- Advise internal stakeholders, including Product, Commercial and other Legal teams, on a broad range of regulatory matters throughout the Americas
- Find ways to mitigate legal and regulatory risks while progressing business objectives
- Support license maintenance activities including managing regulatory relations, requests for information, and regulatory exams
- Review and update manuals, policies and procedures to ensure compliance with laws and regulations and identify opportunities to create efficiencies
- Manage and grow the regional Airwallex regulatory legal team across multiple jurisdictions
- Manage external legal counsel and consultants, ensuring high-quality, cost-effective support aligned with business drivers and risk appetite
- Support and devise optimal paths to market to support Airwallex expansion activities
- Use AI to enhance the efficiency and effectiveness of the Regulatory Legal function and support development and deployment of AI-driven workflows
- Support government relations outreach to legislators and regulatory agencies
- Participate in re-invention of the in-house regulatory legal function as a scalable AI-driven function
Requirements
- Juris Doctor and 10 years of post-qualification experience
- Strong regulatory experience gained in the fintech industry, reputable law firms or financial institutions
- Sound knowledge of the payments (Money Transmission License / MTL) and credit card regulatory environments
- Experience managing and growing a team of lawyers
- Strong stakeholder management skills and ability to deal with a range of internal and external stakeholders
- Proactive, results-driven, and take ownership of your work
- Ability to multi-task and a team player with strong communication skills
- Strong drafting skills
- Experience working with stakeholders across the globe and on cross-border payments issues (preferred)
- Experience advising on consumer regulatory matters (preferred)
- Experience using AI, LegalTech and RegTech tools to enhance efficiency and effectiveness (bonus points for experience developing and deploying tools) (preferred)
- Fluent in Spanish or Portuguese (preferred)
- Legal authorization to work in the United States (application includes questions about work authorization and sponsorship)
