Legal Counsel- San Francisco

Adyen•San Francisco, CA

1d•Hybrid

About The Position

We are looking for a driven and enthusiastic Commercial Counsel based in our San Francisco office 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 enterprise 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. 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.

Requirements

5+ years of legal experience, in house or at a law firm.
Strong commercial contracting and/or other transactional experience.
Ability to collaborate with other legal counsels based in jurisdictions across the US, LATAM, EMEA, and APAC.
Team player who likes to collaborate and include different people to sharpen ideas.
Solid people skills and ability to work well with a variety of internal and external stakeholders and customers from varying disciplines and cultures.
Ability to work autonomously and run things like your own business.
Curious, asks questions, and takes ownership over learning and professional growth.
Self-motivated, driven, reliable, adaptable and detail-oriented.
Experience educating others on complex ideas, communicating them clearly, and providing additional training when necessary.
Ability to structure and prioritize work in a high volume, fast-paced environment and build and drive processes to completion.
Available to work from our San Francisco and travel to other offices periodically.
Fluent in English, both written and spoken.

Nice To Haves

Any additional language is a plus.

Responsibilities

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.
Advising 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.