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Salary: USD 160,000 - 212,500 / annual
Adyen is seeking a Commercial Counsel to join the Commercial Legal team as the dedicated legal partner for Orb, a division within Adyen. Orb is a fintech platform providing payments, data, and financial products to enterprise customers including Meta, Uber, H&M, and Microsoft.
In this role, you will serve as a strategic legal advisor to Orb's leadership team and a key driver of commercial success. You will be responsible for negotiating complex, multi-jurisdictional commercial agreements with customers, vendors, and partners. You will provide business-oriented legal advice across Orb's commercial functions, advising stakeholders on legal, regulatory, and commercial risks.
Key responsibilities include:
- Drafting, reviewing, and negotiating complex commercial agreements across multiple jurisdictions
- Providing strategic legal advice on new products and services, helping structure and mitigate risk from concept to launch
- Creating and maintaining contract templates, playbooks, and negotiation resources
- Proactively identifying and solving emerging legal and operational risks
- Advising on early-stage customer disputes and complex legal interpretations
- Driving legal automation efforts to scale work and improve negotiation efficiency
- Working autonomously in a cross-functional manner with colleagues, leaders, and stakeholders
You will thrive in a fast-moving, complex environment, leveraging sophisticated legal expertise and strong communication skills to deliver scalable value that accelerates Orb's and Adyen's global growth.
Requirements:
- 6+ years of legal experience (in-house or law firm)
- Strong commercial contracting and/or transactional experience with solid understanding of contract law principles
- Clear communicator who ensures stakeholders understand the purpose and reasoning behind decisions
- Strong people skills and ability to work well with diverse internal and external stakeholders
- Curious, self-motivated, pragmatic, reliable, adaptable, and detail-oriented
- Ability to structure and prioritize work in high-volume, fast-paced environments
- Available to work from San Francisco office
- Fluent in English (written and spoken)
