Legal Counsel, Adyen
Commercial
$160-212.5k
Payments platform built to grow businesses
Open for applications
Payments platform built to grow businesses
1001+ employees
Open for applications
$160-212.5k
1001+ employees
Company mission
Adyen's mission is to make payments choices easy for merchants.
Role
Who you are
- You have 4+ years of legal experience, in house or at a law firm
- Strong commercial contracting and/or transactional experience
- You can collaborate with other legal counsels based in jurisdictions across the US, LATAM, EMEA, and APAC
- You are a team player who likes to collaborate and include different people to sharpen your ideas
- You have solid people skills and will work well with a variety of internal and external stakeholders and clients from varying disciplines and cultures
- You can work autonomously, have the ability to work independently and run things like your own business
- You are curious, ask questions and take ownership over your learning and professional growth
- You are self-motivated, driven, reliable, adaptable and detail-oriented
- You have experience educating others on complex ideas, communicating them clearly, and providing training when necessary
- You have the ability to structure and prioritize your work in a high volume, fast-paced environment and build and drive processes to completion
- You are available to work from our San Francisco office and travel to other offices periodically
- You are fluent in English, both written and spoken. Any additional language is a plus, notably a proficiency in Japanese
- You are an attorney in good standing with the California or New York Bar
What the job involves
- We are looking for a driven and enthusiastic Commercial Counsel to join our global Commercial Legal team
- In this role, you will be based in San Francisco
- As Commercial Counsel at Adyen, you will be primarily responsible for assisting the Commercial Legal team on a broad portfolio of topics, including contract negotiations, template drafting, and general commercial matters
- The Commercial Legal team is centered in Amsterdam and the United States
- However, as Adyen is a global company with offices, entities, and boards all over the world, you will be required to apply your knowledge globally
- You have a passion for our business and you would like to contribute to ensure the further growth of Adyen
- Provide strategic legal advice across various commercial functions, advising stakeholders in our sales, account management, partnerships, product, and regulatory teams globally
- Draft, review, and negotiate a wide variety of commercial agreements, including complex, multi-jurisdictional service agreements, partnership agreements, and licensing agreements
- Contribute to business and legal initiatives globally covering a variety of topics, including implementation of regulatory requirements in Adyen’s commercial agreements and cross-functional projects
- Drive legal automation efforts to help scale our team and bring greater efficiency to the contracting process
- Work autonomously in a cross-functional manner
- Build strong relationships with colleagues, leaders, and stakeholders across the company
- Participate in training of sales and commercial colleagues across the globe
Our take
Adyen has been one of the most successful businesses in Europe over the last decade. When it went public in 2018 at a valuation of €7bn, it raised over €1bn and its share price popped on the first day, resulting in a valuation of €14bn. Its valuation has continued to climb by the billions.
Adyen competes with large players like PayPal, as well as outsized startups like Stripe, to power payments and provide other infrastructure to conduct digital transactions. Disrupters in the field have been buoyed by a strong rise in eCommerce activity, where some or all of a transaction by a customer is made either online or by mobile.
Adyen has been one of the companies riding the wave by helping to reduce the friction between a company choosing to take payments online, and actually being able to do it. That can take multiple steps and agreements across numerous countries — Adyen’s pitch is that it essentially handles all of it in the backend as a service for its users. Notable partners have included Autocanteen, a touchless self-checkout solution for the hospitality industry, and BILL, a small business-focused fintech platform.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
36% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Sep 2015
$57m
GROWTH EQUITY VC
Dec 2014
$250m
SERIES B
Total funding: $325.2m
Company benefits
- Global exchange program
- Weekly happy hour
- Delicious healthy lunches
- Phantom share package
- Yearly trip to Amsterdam
- Paid holidays
- Work from home opportunities
Company HQ
Nieuwmarkt en Lastage, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Leadership
Pieter Van Der Does
(CEO)Previously Chief Commercial Officer at Bibit (payments company) before co-founding Adyen in 2006.
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