Managing Commercial Counsel (Deal Desk - Platforms)

Join Adyen, a global payment company, as a Managing Commercial Counsel (Deal Desk - Platforms) in New York. As a Team Lead on the Deal Desk, you will manage a team of commercial lawyers, provide strategic legal advice to senior stakeholders, drive legal automation efforts, and ensure consistent standards across the team. You must have strong commercial contracting expertise, experience managing and developing legal professionals, and be fluent in English.

• Manage and lead a team of commercial lawyers in negotiating contracts with platform and franchise customers.
• Provide strategic legal advice to senior stakeholders across various teams, ensuring compliance with contracting principles.
• Drive legal automation efforts and process improvements to enhance efficiency in the negotiation process.
• 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 have the ability to structure and prioritize work in a high volume, fast-paced environment and build and drive processes to completion
• You are a clear and compelling communicator who ensures your team and stakeholders understand the purpose and reasoning behind decisions
• 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 are committed to building teams that reflect a wide range of backgrounds, perspectives, and experiences, and where every team member can thrive
• 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 are fluent in English, both written and spoken
• You are self-motivated, pragmatic, reliable, adaptable, and detail-oriented
• You are available to work from our New York office
• You have 6+ years of legal experience, in house or at a law firm
• You have demonstrated experience managing, mentoring, and developing lawyers or other legal professionals
• You have solid people skills and work well with a variety of internal and external stakeholders and customers from varying disciplines and cultures
• 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!