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 200000 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 2000 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 youre 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 youre motivated by our mission and operating principles. You move fast with good judgment dig deep with curiosity and make decisions from first principles balancing speed and rigor.
Youre humble and collaborative; turn zerotoone ideas into real products and you get stuff done end-to-end. You use AI to work smarter and solve problems faster. Here youll tackle complex highvisibility problems with exceptional teammates and grow your career as we build the future of global banking. If that sounds like you lets build whats next.
About the team
The Legal Risk & Compliance (LRC) team at Airwallex is a collaborative group of legal minds and risk management experts. Were passionate about safeguarding Airwallexs 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 compliance and financial risks.
What youll do
As a Corporate Paralegal you will provide daytoday support to the Corporate Legal team across contracts corporate governance and M&A matters helping to run the engine room of the function so our lawyers can focus on highimpact strategic work.
You will review and draft NDAs vendor contracts and other corporate documents maintain accurate entity and governance records support due diligence and documentation on M&A transactions and help keep our policies manuals and procedures up to date in a fastgrowing global fintech environment.
This role is based in Seattle.
Responsibilities:
Provide daytoday support to the Corporate Legal team on a wide range of corporate commercial and governance matters including triaging and tracking legal requests from stakeholders across the business.
Review draft and manage routine agreements and legal documents including NDAs vendor and procurement contracts services agreements and other nonrevenue commercial contracts using templates and playbooks provided by Corporate Legal.
Assist with the drafting formatting and maintenance of compliance manuals corporate policies procedures and playbooks owned or supported by Corporate Legal ensuring these are versioncontrolled centrally stored and communicated to relevant teams.
Support corporate governance and entity management activities including preparing board and shareholder resolutions maintaining corporate records and registers coordinating routine filings and helping keep global entity information (e.g. directors officers authorised signatories) accurate and up to date.
Assist the Corporate Legal team in M&A and strategic transactions by helping with due diligence (collecting and organizing documents reviewing contracts and corporate records) preparing ancillary documentation and coordinating execution and closing processes under lawyer supervision.
Support legal operations initiatives including contract lifecycle workflows (e.g. Ironclad DocuSign) intake and matter management and basic reporting on volumes and SLAs while identifying opportunities to streamline processes and increase selfserve across the business.
Who you are
Were looking for people who meet the minimum requirements for this role. The preferred qualifications are great to have but are not mandatory.
Minimum qualifications:
Degree holder paralegal qualification or a diploma in legal studies or a related field.
3 years of experience as a corporate paralegal ideally with law firms financial institutions or highgrowth technology / fintech companies with exposure to corporate governance and contract work.
Demonstrated experience reviewing and drafting NDAs vendor or procurement contracts and other routine corporate agreements and managing contract execution and filing processes.
Practical experience supporting corporate records and governance (e.g. resolutions minutes annual filings director/officer updates entity formations) and maintaining organized accurate legal documentation.
Strong attention to detail organization and timemanagement skills with the ability to manage multiple matters and deadlines in a fastpaced crossborder environment.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English with the ability to summarize legal issues clearly and concisely for nonlegal stakeholders.
Comfortable working with modern productivity and legal tools (for example Google Workspace contract lifecycle management and matter management systems) and keen to learn new technology and processes.
Preferred qualifications:
Experience assisting on M&A transactions or internal restructurings including due diligence data room management and preparation of closing and ancillary documents.
Prior inhouse experience in fintech payments financial services or other highly regulated multientity environments.
Familiarity with legal operations including intake/workflow design metrics and reporting and the use of LegalTech or AI tools to improve the speed and consistency of legal support.
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 @ email address. Please apply only through 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
Airwallex is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We value diversity and anyone seeking employment at Airwallex is considered based on merit qualifications competence and talent. We dont regard color religion race national origin sexual orientation ancestry citizenship sex marital or family status disability gender or any other legally protected status when making our hiring decisions. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation please let us know.
About AirwallexAirwallex is the only unified payments and financial platform for global businesses. Powered by our unique combination of proprietary infrastructure and software we empower over 200000 businesses worldwide including Brex Rippling Navan Qantas SHEIN and many more with fully integrate...
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 200000 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 2000 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 youre 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 youre motivated by our mission and operating principles. You move fast with good judgment dig deep with curiosity and make decisions from first principles balancing speed and rigor.
Youre humble and collaborative; turn zerotoone ideas into real products and you get stuff done end-to-end. You use AI to work smarter and solve problems faster. Here youll tackle complex highvisibility problems with exceptional teammates and grow your career as we build the future of global banking. If that sounds like you lets build whats next.
About the team
The Legal Risk & Compliance (LRC) team at Airwallex is a collaborative group of legal minds and risk management experts. Were passionate about safeguarding Airwallexs 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 compliance and financial risks.
What youll do
As a Corporate Paralegal you will provide daytoday support to the Corporate Legal team across contracts corporate governance and M&A matters helping to run the engine room of the function so our lawyers can focus on highimpact strategic work.
You will review and draft NDAs vendor contracts and other corporate documents maintain accurate entity and governance records support due diligence and documentation on M&A transactions and help keep our policies manuals and procedures up to date in a fastgrowing global fintech environment.
This role is based in Seattle.
Responsibilities:
Provide daytoday support to the Corporate Legal team on a wide range of corporate commercial and governance matters including triaging and tracking legal requests from stakeholders across the business.
Review draft and manage routine agreements and legal documents including NDAs vendor and procurement contracts services agreements and other nonrevenue commercial contracts using templates and playbooks provided by Corporate Legal.
Assist with the drafting formatting and maintenance of compliance manuals corporate policies procedures and playbooks owned or supported by Corporate Legal ensuring these are versioncontrolled centrally stored and communicated to relevant teams.
Support corporate governance and entity management activities including preparing board and shareholder resolutions maintaining corporate records and registers coordinating routine filings and helping keep global entity information (e.g. directors officers authorised signatories) accurate and up to date.
Assist the Corporate Legal team in M&A and strategic transactions by helping with due diligence (collecting and organizing documents reviewing contracts and corporate records) preparing ancillary documentation and coordinating execution and closing processes under lawyer supervision.
Support legal operations initiatives including contract lifecycle workflows (e.g. Ironclad DocuSign) intake and matter management and basic reporting on volumes and SLAs while identifying opportunities to streamline processes and increase selfserve across the business.
Who you are
Were looking for people who meet the minimum requirements for this role. The preferred qualifications are great to have but are not mandatory.
Minimum qualifications:
Degree holder paralegal qualification or a diploma in legal studies or a related field.
3 years of experience as a corporate paralegal ideally with law firms financial institutions or highgrowth technology / fintech companies with exposure to corporate governance and contract work.
Demonstrated experience reviewing and drafting NDAs vendor or procurement contracts and other routine corporate agreements and managing contract execution and filing processes.
Practical experience supporting corporate records and governance (e.g. resolutions minutes annual filings director/officer updates entity formations) and maintaining organized accurate legal documentation.
Strong attention to detail organization and timemanagement skills with the ability to manage multiple matters and deadlines in a fastpaced crossborder environment.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English with the ability to summarize legal issues clearly and concisely for nonlegal stakeholders.
Comfortable working with modern productivity and legal tools (for example Google Workspace contract lifecycle management and matter management systems) and keen to learn new technology and processes.
Preferred qualifications:
Experience assisting on M&A transactions or internal restructurings including due diligence data room management and preparation of closing and ancillary documents.
Prior inhouse experience in fintech payments financial services or other highly regulated multientity environments.
Familiarity with legal operations including intake/workflow design metrics and reporting and the use of LegalTech or AI tools to improve the speed and consistency of legal support.
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 @ email address. Please apply only through 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
Airwallex is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We value diversity and anyone seeking employment at Airwallex is considered based on merit qualifications competence and talent. We dont regard color religion race national origin sexual orientation ancestry citizenship sex marital or family status disability gender or any other legally protected status when making our hiring decisions. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation please let us know.
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