Commercial Counsel, Adyen
Deal Desk
$160-212.5k
+ Additional equity component
Payments platform built to grow businesses
Open for applications
Payments platform built to grow businesses
1001+ employees
Open for applications
$160-212.5k
+ Additional equity component
1001+ employees
Company mission
To make payments choices easy for merchants.
Role
Who you are
- This is a role for a counsel who thrives in a fast-moving, complex environment, who is commercially-minded, and who can leverage their sophisticated legal expertise and strong communication skills into tangible, scalable value that accelerates Adyen’s global growth
- You have 5+ years of legal experience, in house or at a law firm
- You have strong commercial contracting and/or other 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 customers from varying disciplines and cultures
- You can work autonomously 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 additional 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
What the job involves
- We are looking for a driven and enthusiastic Commercial Counsel based in San Francisco to join the global Deal Desk within the Commercial Legal team at Adyen
- As Commercial Counsel, you will be responsible for negotiating customer-facing contract negotiations, primarily focused on platform and franchise customers
- You will also be responsible for drafting comprehensive negotiation playbooks, training our commercial colleagues on how to sell our agreements, advising on contract interpretation, early-stage customer disputes, and other general commercial matters
- Provide strategic legal advice across various commercial functions, advising stakeholders in our sales, account management, product, and regulatory teams globally
- Draft, review, and negotiate a wide variety of complex, multi-jurisdictional commercial agreements for our payment, data and financial services products
- Proactively problem solve for emerging legal and operational risks, providing risk-based decisions on complex legal issues and proposing improvements and efficiencies to mitigate future exposure
- Advise on early-stage customer disputes, managing initial phases of legal conflicts, and providing counsel on complex legal interpretations
- 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 our commercial colleagues across the globe
Application process
- We aim to get back to you regarding your application within 5 business days. Our interview process tends to take about 4 weeks to complete, but may fluctuate depending on the role
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 €7 billion, it raised over €1 billion and its share price popped on the first day, resulting in a valuation of €14 billion. And its valuation has continued to climb in the years since.
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 interested businesses to choose and then implement online payments - without the usual hoops to step through. Notable partners have included Autocanteen, a touchless self-checkout solution for the hospitality industry, and BILL, a small business-focused fintech platform.
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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
36% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Sep 2015
$56m
GROWTH EQUITY VC
Dec 2014
$250m
SERIES B
Total funding: $323.9m
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
(Co-Founder & CEO)Previously Chief Commercial Officer at Bibit (payments company) before co-founding Adyen in 2006.
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