Head of Commercial Legal, Adyen
Strategy and Enablement
$210-275k
3 days a week in office
Payments platform built to grow businesses
Open for applications
Payments platform built to grow businesses
1001+ employees
Open for applications
$210-275k
3 days a week in office
1001+ employees
Company mission
Adyen's mission is to make payments choices easy for merchants.
Role
Who you are
- This is a role for a commercially-oriented leader and team builder who thrives in a fast-moving environment, is energized by complexity, and can translate strategic goals into pragmatic, scalable operational solutions
- This dynamic role is ideal for someone who enjoys wearing multiple hats and thrives in developing a deep bench of curious, creative legal and operational professionals
- 10+ years of legal or legal operations experience with significant time in a leadership role, ideally in a high-growth, multi-jurisdictional environment
- Proven leader with a strong track record of building and mentoring high-performing teams, and a focus on people development
- Deep familiarity with legal operations, including function analytics, process mapping, workflow automation, operational efficiency, cost control, and legal technology implementation
- Strong operator with a builder's mindset: comfortable setting vision, establishing structure where none exists, and designing scalable processes to support rapid iteration
- Passionate about using data to drive thoughtful decision-making and possessing the ability to translate complex operational issues into clear, actionable guidance
- Collaborative partner who works well with Legal, Product, Engineering, and Commercial stakeholders
- Experience with vendor management is highly desirable
What the job involves
- Adyen is seeking a Head of Legal Strategy and Enablement to build and lead a high-performing function that drives operational excellence, strategic alignment, and technological advancement across the Legal organization. This leader will report directly to the Head of Legal and will be critical in transforming the legal function into a key enabler of global business growth
- Reporting to the VP of Legal, you will manage and mentor two teams: Legal Strategy and Legal Enablement. You will be entrusted with strategically partnering with Legal leadership and cross-functional leaders to define the function’s roadmap, ensure successful execution, and maximize functional value
- You’ll play a key role in ensuring the Legal organization operates with agility and effectiveness, using data to drive thoughtful decision-making, reduce risk, and achieve strategic goals
- Build and lead the Legal Strategy and Enablement function responsible for driving operational excellence and strategic alignment across the function
- Develop a cohesive legal strategy and operational model that increases functional value, agility, and effectiveness
- Act as a senior advisor to Legal providing clear, actionable guidance on strategic planning and operational issues
- Represent Legal in cross-functional initiatives, ensuring legal needs are embedded in strategy and implementation plans
- Lead talent strategy for the Legal Strategy and Enablement organization—hiring, developing, and retaining top talent across both teams
- Lead and mentor a high-performing team of strategy and operations professionals (including Commercial Enablement/Legal Operations experts)
- Set clear performance goals, expectations, and development plans, ensuring the team's objectives are directly aligned with legal operations' strategic goals for efficiency and technological advancement
- Champion a culture of continuous improvement, actively identifying, defining, and rolling out new, innovative operational processes across the entire Legal team
- Oversee and drive the implementation of new tools and systems across the function
- Define, pilot, and roll out AI-powered processes for high-volume legal workflows, focusing on leveraging Artificial Intelligence in legal workflows
- Own, manage, and optimize the legal technology and tools used by the team, ensuring a seamless and integrated tech stack (e.g., contract creation, e-signature workflows like DocuSign, matter management and intake systems)
- Advance workflow automation, including designing and implementing scalable, efficient processes and organizational models
- Define, build, and maintain 'smart' self-service knowledge portals to serve as the primary resource for internal stakeholders' legal inquiries
- Develop and implement metrics and trends on key data, providing reporting to measure results and guide decision-making
- Track, analyze, and report on performance indicators for the Legal Organization's output and measurable commercial impact
- Collaborate directly with Commercial Sales teams to align legal data and tooling (including CRM systems like Salesforce) with commercial pipeline tracking and deal close metrics
- Design and implement a function-wide legal data strategy, including dashboards, performance tracking, and executive reporting
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
$59m
GROWTH EQUITY VC
Dec 2014
$250m
SERIES B
Total funding: $327.9m
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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