Airwallex - Commercial Legal Counsel, EMEA
Requirements
• You bring 5-8 years of legal experience, with experience in private practice at a top law firm. Additional in-house experience at a fintech is strongly preferred. • Excellent communication, drafting, negotiation, and writing skills. • The ability to explain complex legal concepts to various non-legal audiences, and the ability to manage and prioritize multiple projects and deals. • High motivation and the ability to operate independently and pivot quickly within a fast-paced, rapidly changing environment. • A learner’s mentality: you are consistently looking to take on new and diverse challenges and expand your knowledge beyond your current areas of expertise. • A collaborative and empathetic mindset, a good sense of humor, and a keen understanding of how to work effectively with colleagues from different teams and backgrounds. • Ability to translate complex legal and risk issues into clear, succinct, and actionable guidance. • High integrity, sound judgment, and an unflappable demeanor and collaborative style of working • Experience at a fintech or in the banking industry or high-growth and/or globally distributed company. • Experience drafting and negotiating technology transactions, SaaS agreements, and other customer-facing services agreements. • French/German/Spanish language skills preferred • APPLICANT SAFETY POLICY: FRAUD AND THIRD-PARTY RECRUITERS • To protect you from recruitment scams, please be aware that Airwallex will not ask for bank details, sensitive ID numbers (i.e. passport), or any form of payment during the application or interview process. All official communication will come from an @airwallex.com http://airwallex.com email address. Please apply only through careers.airwallex.com http://careers.airwallex.com or our official LinkedIn page. • Airwallex does not accept unsolicited resumes from search firms/recruiters. Airwallex will not pay any fees to search firms/recruiters if a candidate is submitted by a search firm/recruiter unless an agreement has been entered into with respect to specific open position(s). Search firms/recruiters submitting resumes to Airwallex on an unsolicited basis shall be deemed to accept this condition, regardless of any other provision to the contrary. • EQUAL OPPORTUNITY
Responsibilities
• Airwallex is looking for an experienced (Senior) Counsel to support our fast growing commercial legal team across EMEA. You will support a complex set of fintech products that will challenge your problem solving and critical thinking skills. You will support a wide variety of commercial legal matters supporting Airwallex’s growing Sales team, and help us build for scale in several EMEA markets, ranging from Germany, Israel, France, the Netherlands to the UK. This is a strategic position and you will be a key advisor to Airwallex’s EMEA go-to-market Commercial team. • This position is based in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. • Drive complex deals. Personally lead negotiations on high-stakes enterprise commercial and strategic partnership deals across EMEA (with a strong emphasis on our UK, NL, and IL business), many with significant cross-border elements. • Build for scale. Develop and implement an innovative strategy for delivering efficient and effective commercial legal support. Drive the creation and maintenance of scalable templates, playbooks, and processes to support our rapidly growing business. • Be a strategic partner. Act as a key advisor to our dynamic, globally distributed commercial leadership. Partner with the Commercial team to scale our go-to-market efforts and advance multi-product and multi-jurisdictional deal strategies. • Enhance Efficiency. Learn from our data and operations teams to leverage technology, automation, and data-driven insights to increase the efficiency and impact of the Commercial Legal function. • Collaborate Globally. Work closely and effectively with Airwallex’s global legal, compliance, and risk teams on deals and projects that involve multiple jurisdictions • Contribute to Culture. Make a positive contribution to the culture of the Airwallex legal team, the EMEA team, and the company as a whole.
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