At a glance
- Experience
- 3+ years experience
- Workplace
- Remote
- Location
- Amsterdam
About the role
- Adyen is looking for a driven and enthusiastic Associate Commercial Counsel based in Amsterdam to join the global Deal Desk within the Commercial Legal team.
- This role involves negotiating complex contracts with vendors and commercial partners, drafting comprehensive negotiation playbooks, training internal teams, and advising on contract interpretation and other general commercial matters.
Responsibilities
- Provide strategic, business-oriented legal advice across procurement, partnerships, product, and regulatory teams globally, including on contracting principles, commercial projects, and legal and regulatory compliance within vendor and partner contracts.
- Draft, review, and negotiate a wide variety of complex, multi-jurisdictional commercial agreements.
- 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 disputes, managing initial phases of legal conflicts, and providing counsel on complex legal interpretations.
- Drive legal automation efforts and process improvements to help scale the team and bring greater efficiency to the negotiation process.
- Work autonomously in a cross-functional manner.
- Build strong relationships with colleagues, leaders, and stakeholders across the company.
Requirements
- 3+ years of legal experience, in house or at a law firm including strong commercial contracting and/or other transactional experience to compliment a solid understanding of contract law principles.
- Clear communicator who ensures stakeholders understand the purpose and reasoning behind decisions.
- Solid people skills and ability to work well with a variety of internal and external stakeholders from varying disciplines and cultures.
- Curious, ask questions, and take ownership over learning and professional growth.
- Self-motivated, pragmatic, reliable, adaptable and detail-oriented.
- Experience educating others on complex ideas, communicating them clearly, and providing additional training when necessary.
- The ability to structure and prioritize work in a high volume, fast-paced environment and build and drive processes to completion.
Workplace
- This role is based out of the Amsterdam office.
- Adyen is an office-first company and values in-person collaboration; remote-only roles are not offered.
