Associate Director, Regulatory Legal, APAC

Associate Director, Regulatory Legal, APAC ABOUT AIRWALLEX Airwallex is the only unified payments and financial platform for global businesses. Powered by our unique combination of proprietary infrastructure and software, we empower over 200,000 businesses worldwide – including Brex, Rippling, Navan, Qantas, SHEIN and many more – with fully integrated solutions to manage everything from business accounts, payments, spend management and treasury, to embedded finance at a global scale. Proudly founded in Melbourne, we have a team of over 2,000 of the brightest and most innovative people in tech across 26 offices around the globe. Valued at US$8 billion and backed by world-leading investors including T. Rowe Price, Visa, Mastercard, Robinhood Ventures, Sequoia, Salesforce Ventures, DST Global, and Lone Pine Capital, Airwallex is leading the charge in building the global payments and financial platform of the future. If you’re ready to do the most ambitious work of your career, join us. ATTRIBUTES WE VALUE We hire successful builders with founder-like energy who want real impact, accelerated learning, and true ownership. You bring strong role-related expertise and sharp thinking, and you’re motivated by our mission and operating principles https://www.airwallex.com/us/operating-principles. You move fast with good judgment, dig deep with curiosity, and make decisions from first principles, balancing speed and rigor. You're humble and collaborative; turn zero‑to‑one ideas into real products, and you “get stuff done” end-to-end. You use AI to work smarter and solve problems faster. Here, you’ll tackle complex, high‑visibility problems with exceptional teammates and grow your career as we build the future of global banking. If that sounds like you, let’s build what’s next. ABOUT THE TEAM Airwallex’s Regulatory Legal team is a high-impact, collaborative group that plays a central role in enabling our expansion and success across the regions we’re present in. We support Airwallex’s continued growth by providing expert legal guidance on regulatory matters, partnering closely with Product Legal, Regulatory Compliance, Financial Crime Compliance, and other teams to deliver innovative financial products compliantly and at scale. This is a fast-paced, growth-oriented environment where you’ll work alongside committed colleagues, engage in strategic projects with global reach, and have direct influence on business-critical decisions. We value curiosity, ownership, and the ambition to drive outcomes in a complex, ever-evolving regulatory landscape. WHAT YOU'LL DO As Associate Director, Regulatory Legal responsible for the rapidly expanding Southeast Asia and India region, you will be a key member of the global Regulatory Legal team and a senior partner to our SEA & India business in navigating complex and evolving regulatory landscapes. You will support our regulatory strategy and advise on complex regulatory issues across Southeast Asian markets and India, working closely with stakeholders in Singapore and globally. You will act as a steward of our licences in SEA & India, partnering with Regulatory Compliance, Risk and Financial Crime Compliance (FCC) to ensure compliance with licensing and other regulatory requirements. You will play a critical role in supporting market entry, licence applications and variations, and new product launches across the region. This dynamic role is ideal for someone who enjoys wearing multiple hats and solving complex issues for our customers, is detail oriented, willing to take on challenges and change, obsessively curious and intellectually honest, thrives on taking action and delivering impactful results, and aims to inspire and be inspired. This role is based in Singapore, with regional responsibility for Southeast Asia and India. RESPONSIBILITIES: - Provide actionable regulatory advice to commercial, product, operations and compliance stakeholders on a broad range of regulatory matters across ... (truncated, view full listing at source)