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About the Role

Seeking a driven and enthusiastic leader in New York to join the global Deal Desk team, a function within the Commercial Legal team. This role manages and leads a team of commercial lawyers negotiating contracts with enterprise customers. The position requires strong commercial contracting expertise, acting as a trusted advisor to senior commercial stakeholders, and building a high-performing team. Candidates must possess a strong drafting and negotiation background in complex, multi-jurisdictional commercial agreements, leveraging legal expertise and communication skills to accelerate Adyen's global growth.

Responsibilities

Manage, mentor, and develop commercial lawyers who draft, review, and negotiate complex, multi-jurisdictional commercial agreements for customers.
Provide strategic, business-oriented legal advice to senior stakeholders across sales, account management, product, and regulatory teams globally.
Advise on contracting principles, commercial projects, and legal and regulatory compliance within customer contracts.
Serve as the primary escalation point, guiding strategic, risk-based decisions on complex legal issues and proposing improvements.
Drive legal automation efforts and process improvements to scale the team and enhance negotiation efficiency.
Advise on contract interpretation, early-stage customer disputes, and general commercial matters.
Ensure global consistency and standards across the Deal Desk, creating and advancing global initiatives.
Draft comprehensive negotiation playbooks and train commercial colleagues on agreement sales.
Foster strong collaboration and feedback loops within the Legal Team.
Stay updated on developments in commercial law and relevant industry regulations, advising the business strategically.

Requirements

6+ years of legal experience, in-house or at a law firm.
Strong experience 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 to ensure understanding of decisions.
Solid people skills for effective collaboration with diverse internal and external stakeholders and customers.
Experience educating others on complex ideas, communicating them clearly, and providing additional 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 efficiency improvements.
Self-motivated, pragmatic, reliable, adaptable, and detail-oriented.
Available to work from the New York office.
Fluent in English, both written and spoken.

Skills

Commercial contracting expertise
Contract drafting
Contract negotiation
Legal expertise
Communication
Contract law principles
Team management
Mentoring
Professional development
People skills
Education and training
Work structuring
Prioritization
Process building
Process improvement
Efficiency seeking
Self-motivation
Pragmatism
Reliability
Adaptability
Detail-orientation
English fluency (written and spoken)

Location

New York

Work Type

Onsite
Office-first
In-person collaboration

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.
Positioned as the financial technology platform of choice.
Everything Adyen does is engineered for ambition.
Creates an environment with opportunities for people to succeed, backed by culture and support for career ownership.
Composed of motivated individuals who tackle unique technical challenges at scale and solve them as a team.
Delivers innovative and ethical solutions that help businesses achieve their ambitions faster.

Equal Opportunity

Adyen's unique approach is a product of diverse perspectives.
Diversity of backgrounds and cultures is essential for maintaining momentum.
Seeks many different voices to solve unique business and technical challenges.
Welcomes individuals to be their true self at Adyen, regardless of who they are or where they're from.
Encourages women and members of underrepresented communities to apply even if they don't meet 100% of the qualifications.
Adyen is an equal opportunity employer.
Does 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.