Top Legal Jobs in NYC, NY

Serves as senior employment counsel for the Americas, advising People & Talent and business leaders on employee lifecycle matters, workplace investigations, policies, disputes, compensation, benefits, and equity. Coordinates multi-jurisdiction employment advice, including contractor classification, employer-of-record arrangements, remote work, mobility, and regulated-entity issues. Manages external counsel and litigation-related legal spend while developing scalable employment-law playbooks and templates.

Manage global company secretarial and corporate governance matters for licensed entities across multiple jurisdictions. Responsibilities include entity incorporations, restructurings, statutory filings, board and committee meetings, corporate records, equity administration, licensing compliance, and coordination with regulators, auditors, external counsel, and service providers.

Advise on payments and financial-services regulations across the Americas, including licensing, money transmission, product launches, regulatory filings, and payment flows. Research regulatory developments, provide practical guidance to cross-functional teams, manage external counsel, support regulator and government-relations work, and help improve legal workflows using AI and other tools. The role focuses primarily on US regulation, with opportunities involving Canada, Mexico, and Brazil.

Leads Airwallex’s global corporate transactions, including private-company financings, fundraising, secondary sales, M&A, joint ventures, and strategic transactions. Advises on corporate governance, capital structure, reorganizations, licensing, and cross-border matters. Partners with executives, investors, finance, tax, regulatory, risk, and product teams; manages external counsel; and builds scalable legal processes, playbooks, templates, and technology-enabled workflows.

Lead the product-counsel team supporting Embedded Finance, payments platforms, issuing, and lending. Advise Product, Sales, Risk, Engineering, and financial partners on U.S. and international payments regulation, structure complex deals, negotiate banking and platform agreements, guide product launches, and develop scalable legal playbooks. The role requires translating regulatory complexity into practical advice while supporting global expansion and high-growth fintech products.

Advise product, partnership, legal, risk, and compliance teams on complex global technology and strategic partnership transactions. Draft and negotiate agreements, coordinate local counsel across jurisdictions, assess regulatory paths to market, and manage external counsel and consultants. Build relationships with global stakeholders while supporting fintech product strategy and navigating payments, card network, and banking regulations.

Design, implement, and operate controls that turn regulatory and partner obligations into tested, evidence-backed processes across US-licensed entities. Manage control documentation, testing, remediation, regulatory exam responses, and cross-functional implementations with Product, Ops, Engineering, Risk, and external partners.

Provide legal advice to product, sales, and local teams across multiple regions; negotiate and draft complex commercial and technology agreements; coordinate with local counsel and manage external advisors; support regulatory strategy, market entry, and government/regulator outreach for fintech/payments products.

Provide senior regulatory legal advice for payments and financial services across the Americas. Lead licensing, registration, and compliance workstreams; engage regulators; support market entry and product launches; manage external counsel; partner with product, risk, and compliance teams; and shape regional regulatory strategy.

Advise on payments and financial-services regulatory matters across the Americas, including licensing, money transmission, payment flows, product launches, filings, and regulatory developments. Partner with legal, compliance, risk, product, strategy, and commercial teams; translate complex requirements into practical guidance; manage external counsel; support government-relations work; and contribute to regulatory projects across the US, Canada, Mexico, and Brazil.