Commercial Legal Counsel, EMEA

<h2><strong>About Airwallex</strong></h2><p style="min-height:1.5em">Airwallex is the AI-native financial operating system for a real-time, intelligent economy. More than 675,000 businesses, including McLaren Racing, Qantas, SHEIN, and TikTok, use us, directly or through our platform partners, to run their financial operations or build and monetize financial products of their own.</p><p style="min-height:1.5em">We started in Melbourne in 2015 to build the infrastructure global commerce runs on. We're the regulated backbone behind global payments: not by accident, but by design. A decade plus, 85+ licenses, and a financial infrastructure spanning North America, Europe, the Middle East, and Asia-Pacific.</p><p style="min-height:1.5em">We're co-headquartered in San Francisco and Singapore, with more than 2,700 people across 27 offices. We hire builders with founder-level energy, people who move fast with good judgment, dig in with real curiosity, and make calls from first principles rather than waiting to be told what to do. Read our<a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.airwallex.com/en-us/operating-principles"> <u>operating principles</u></a> to see it in full.</p><div style="min-height:1.2em;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"> </div><h2><strong>About the team</strong></h2><p style="min-height:1.5em">The Legal team at Airwallex is a collaborative group of legal minds and risk management experts. We're passionate about safeguarding Airwallex's operations, fostering a culture of compliance and ethical conduct, and ensuring we navigate the global financial landscape with integrity. We provide expert guidance and support to all areas of the business, proactively identifying, mitigating, and managing legal and financial risks.</p><p style="min-height:1.5em"></p><h2><strong>What you’ll do</strong></h2><p style="min-height:1.5em">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.</p><p style="min-height:1.5em"></p><p style="min-height:1.5em">This position is based in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.</p><p style="min-height:1.5em"></p><p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>Responsibilities:</strong></p><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li><p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>Drive complex deals. </strong>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.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>Build for scale. </strong>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.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>Be a strategic partner. </strong>Act as a key advisor to our dynamic, globally distributed commercial leadership. Partner with the Comm