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Salary: USD 160,000 - 212,500 / annual
Adyen is a global financial technology platform providing payments, data, and financial products for enterprise customers including Meta, Uber, H&M, and Microsoft. The company is seeking a Commercial Counsel to join the global Deal Desk within the Commercial Legal team, based in San Francisco.
In this role, you will be responsible for negotiating customer-facing contracts, primarily focused on platform and franchise customers. You will draft comprehensive negotiation playbooks, train commercial colleagues on agreement sales, advise on contract interpretation, manage early-stage customer disputes, and handle general commercial matters. This is a position for a counsel who thrives in fast-moving, complex environments with strong commercial acumen and sophisticated legal expertise.
Key responsibilities include:
- Provide strategic legal advice across sales, account management, product, and regulatory teams globally
- Draft, review, and negotiate complex, multi-jurisdictional commercial agreements for payment, data, and financial services products
- Proactively identify and mitigate emerging legal and operational risks
- Advise on early-stage customer disputes and complex legal interpretations
- Drive legal automation efforts to scale the team and improve contracting efficiency
- Work autonomously in cross-functional teams
- Build relationships with colleagues and stakeholders across the company
- Participate in training commercial colleagues globally
Requirements:
- 5+ years of legal experience (in-house or law firm)
- Strong commercial contracting and/or transactional experience
- Ability to collaborate with legal counsels across US, LATAM, EMEA, and APAC jurisdictions
- Excellent people skills and ability to work with diverse internal and external stakeholders
- Autonomous work style with business ownership mentality
- Curiosity and commitment to professional growth
- Self-motivated, driven, reliable, adaptable, and detail-oriented
- Experience educating others on complex ideas and providing training
- Ability to structure, prioritize, and drive work to completion in high-volume, fast-paced environments
- Available to work from San Francisco office with periodic travel to other offices
- Fluent in English (written and spoken); additional languages a plus
