Managing Commercial Counsel (Deal Desk - Enterprise)

Join Adyen, a global payment company, as a Managing Commercial Counsel (Deal Desk - Enterprise) in New York. In this role, you will lead a team of commercial lawyers, provide strategic legal advice to senior stakeholders, drive legal automation efforts, and ensure consistent standards across the Deal Desk. You must have 6+ years of legal experience, strong commercial contracting expertise, and a commitment to building diverse teams.

• Manage and lead a team of commercial lawyers in negotiating contracts with enterprise customers, providing strategic legal advice to senior stakeholders.
• Drive legal automation efforts and process improvements to scale the team and enhance the negotiation process.
• Ensure consistent standards across the Deal Desk, creating and advancing global initiatives, including drafting negotiation playbooks and training commercial colleagues.
• The role requires a leader with strong commercial contracting expertise who can act as a trusted advisor to senior commercial stakeholders, while building and developing a high-performing team
• . You must have a strong drafting and negotiation background across a variety of complex, multi-jurisdictional commercial agreements and be able to leverage sophisticated legal expertise and communication skills into tangible, scalable value that accelerates Adyen's global growth
• You are fluent in English, both written and spoken
• You are committed to building teams that reflect a wide range of backgrounds, perspectives, and experiences, and where every team member can thrive
• You have solid people skills and work well with a variety of internal and external stakeholders and customers from varying disciplines and cultures
• You enjoy critically considering process flows and seeking to improve efficiency wherever possible
• You have experience educating others on complex ideas, communicating them clearly and providing additional training when necessary
• You have 6+ years of legal experience, in house or at a law firm
• You have strong experience in drafting, reviewing, and negotiating a wide range of complex commercial contracts, with a solid understanding of contract law principles
• You have the ability to structure and prioritize work in a high volume, fast-paced environment and build and drive processes to completion
• You have demonstrated experience managing, mentoring, and developing lawyers or other legal professionals
• You are available to work from our New York office
• You are self-motivated, pragmatic, reliable, adaptable, and detail-oriented
• You are a clear and compelling communicator who ensures your team and stakeholders understand the purpose and reasoning behind decisions
• Studies show that women and members of underrepresented communities apply for jobs only if they meet 100% of the qualifications. Does this sound like you? If so, Adyen encourages you to reconsider and apply. We look forward to your application!