Commercial Counsel, Deal Desk

About the role

Adyen provides payments, data, and financial products in a single solution for customers like Meta, Uber, H&M, and Microsoft. As Commercial Counsel based in New York, you will join the global Deal Desk within the Commercial Legal team, negotiating customer‑facing contracts for enterprise customers, drafting negotiation playbooks, training commercial colleagues, advising on contract interpretation and early‑stage disputes, and driving legal automation to scale the team.

Responsibilities

• Provide strategic legal advice across sales, account management, product, and regulatory teams globally.
• Draft, review, and negotiate a wide variety of complex, multi‑jurisdictional commercial agreements for 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 to mitigate future exposure.
• Advise 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 the team and bring greater efficiency to the contracting process.
• Work autonomously in a cross‑functional manner, building strong relationships with colleagues, leaders, and stakeholders across the company.
• Participate in training commercial colleagues across the globe.

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 legal counsels across US, LATAM, EMEA, and APAC jurisdictions.
• Team player who likes to collaborate and include different perspectives.
• Solid people skills to work 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, 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 the New York office and travel to other offices periodically.
• Fluent in English (written and spoken); additional language is a plus.

Skills

Strong commercial contracting, negotiation, risk‑based decision making, legal automation, cross‑functional collaboration, training and communication, autonomous work structuring, detail‑orientation.

Pay

The base salary range for this role is $160,000.00 – $212,500.00, with an additional equity component.