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About the Role
Adyen is seeking a driven and enthusiastic leader for its global Deal Desk team in New York. This role involves managing and leading a team of commercial lawyers who negotiate contracts with platform and franchise customers, acting as a trusted advisor to senior commercial stakeholders and building a high-performing team.
Responsibilities
- Manage, mentor, and develop a team of commercial lawyers who draft, review, and negotiate complex, multi-jurisdictional commercial agreements.
- Provide strategic, business-oriented legal advice to senior stakeholders across sales, account management, product, and regulatory teams.
- Serve as the primary escalation point for the team, guiding strategic, risk-based decisions on complex legal issues.
- Drive legal automation efforts and process improvements to scale the team and increase negotiation efficiency.
- Advise on contract interpretation, early-stage customer disputes, and general commercial matters.
- Ensure a global voice and consistent standards across the Deal Desk, creating and advancing global initiatives.
- Foster strong collaboration and feedback loops within the Legal Team.
- Keep up to date with developments in commercial law and relevant industry regulations, strategically advising the business.
Requirements
- 6+ years of legal experience, in house or at a law firm.
- Strong experience in drafting, reviewing, and negotiating a wide range of complex commercial contracts.
- Solid understanding of contract law principles.
- Demonstrated experience managing, mentoring, and developing lawyers or other legal professionals.
- Commitment to building diverse teams where every member can thrive.
- Clear and compelling communication skills.
- Solid people skills and ability to work with diverse internal and external stakeholders.
- Experience educating others on complex ideas and providing training.
- Ability to structure and prioritize work in a high volume, fast-paced environment.
- Ability to build and drive processes to completion.
- Enjoy critically considering process flows and seeking to improve efficiency.
- Self-motivated, pragmatic, reliable, adaptable, and detail-oriented.
- Fluent in English, both written and spoken.
Skills
- Commercial contracting
- Contract drafting
- Contract negotiation
- Legal advice
- Team management
- Mentoring
- Process improvement
- Legal automation
- Commercial law
- Regulatory compliance
Location
- New York
Work Type
- Office-first
- Onsite
Experience Level
- 6+ years of legal experience
About the Company
- Adyen provides payments, data, and financial products in a single solution for customers like Meta, Uber, H&M, and Microsoft.
- Adyen is the financial technology platform of choice.
- At Adyen, everything is engineered for ambition.
- Adyen creates an environment with opportunities for people to succeed, backed by the culture and support to ensure they are enabled to truly own their careers.
- Adyen's teams tackle unique technical challenges at scale and solve them as a team.
- Adyen delivers innovative and ethical solutions that help businesses achieve their ambitions faster.
Equal Opportunity
- Adyen is an equal opportunity employer.
- We do not discriminate based on race, color, ethnicity, ancestry, national origin, religion, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, disability, veteran status, genetic information, marital status or any legally protected status.
- Our unique approach is a product of our diverse perspectives.
- This diversity of backgrounds and cultures is essential in helping us maintain our momentum.
- We need as many different voices as possible to join us in solving challenges.
- No matter who you are or where you're from, we welcome you to be your true self at Adyen.