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Adyen is a global financial technology platform providing payments, data, and financial products for enterprise customers including Meta, Uber, H&M, and Microsoft.
You will join the Deal Desk as a Team Lead reporting to the Head of Deal Desk, managing a lean team of commercial lawyers who draft, review, and negotiate complex, multi-jurisdictional commercial agreements. This is a people-management role requiring strong commercial contracting expertise and the ability to serve as a trusted advisor to senior commercial stakeholders.
Key responsibilities include:
- Managing, mentoring, and developing a high-performing team of commercial lawyers
- Providing strategic, business-oriented legal advice to senior stakeholders across sales, account management, product, and regulatory teams globally
- Serving as the primary escalation point for complex legal issues and proposing risk-mitigation improvements
- Driving legal automation efforts and process improvements to scale the team and enhance negotiation efficiency
- Advising on contract interpretation, early-stage customer disputes, and general commercial matters
- Ensuring consistent global standards across the Deal Desk, including developing negotiation playbooks and training commercial colleagues
- Fostering collaboration and feedback loops within the Legal Team
- Staying current with commercial law developments and industry regulations
Requirements:
- 8+ years of legal experience (in-house or law firm)
- Strong experience drafting, reviewing, and negotiating complex commercial contracts with solid understanding of contract law principles
- Demonstrated experience managing, mentoring, and developing lawyers or legal professionals
- Commitment to building diverse, inclusive teams
- Clear and compelling communication skills
- Strong people skills and ability to work with diverse internal and external stakeholders
- Experience educating others on complex ideas
- Ability to structure and prioritize work in high-volume, fast-paced environments
- Self-motivated, pragmatic, reliable, adaptable, and detail-oriented
- Available to work from Singapore office
- Fluent in English (written and spoken)
