Payments & Product Partnerships Counsel, Americas

Chicago · New York · 6+ years experience · Onsite · Posted Oct 1, 2026

At a glance

Adyen is seeking a skilled, business-oriented financial services transactions lawyer to join the Payment & Product Partnerships Counsel team in New York, San Francisco, or Chicago.
This role serves as a principal advisor to partnerships, product, risk, and compliance teams, focusing on a broad range of transactions across financial services ecosystems.
The position is responsible for building and scaling the legal framework for critical financial and technology infrastructure relationships in the Americas region.

Partner with Adyen’s payment and product partnerships teams to help build, manage, and grow strategic relationships with card networks, payment methods, financial institutions, and other financial and technology partners.
Structure, draft, and negotiate strategic infrastructure partnership agreements to enable and optimize Adyen’s payments and financial products across North America and Latin America markets.
Collaborate with product, regulatory, compliance, risk, finance, partnerships, and other cross-functional teams to ensure partner deals conform to regulatory positions and support commercial objectives.
Counsel stakeholders across the business on operation and interpretation of partner agreements, ecosystem interdependencies, and corresponding risks and opportunities.
Scale deal cycles and supported products by generating and maintaining documents and resources for working with partners, including form agreements, position guides, and implementation briefs.
Stay current on laws, regulations, and scheme and network rules governing bank-partner relationships, third-party service providers, privacy, data security, and consumer protection in financial services.
Build relationships as a trusted advisor by providing clear, practical, actionable guidance in areas involving significant ambiguity or rapid industry evolution.

6+ years experience as a practicing lawyer across in-house and law firm roles, with a significant portion spent working with financial institutions or technology companies on transactions opposite experienced counsel.
Working dexterity with financial services partnership transactions where a regulated financial institution and another party collaborate to stand up and run a unified financial product or service.
Experience with financial services transactions and a working understanding of market-dominant financial services regulatory models.
Ability to spot a broad range of legal issues across disciplines such as contract, regulatory, IP, and privacy.
Excellent English-language communication skills with the capacity to translate complex legal and contractual concepts to technical teams and non-lawyer audiences.
Strong, risk-tuned judgment, outstanding project management skills, and the ability to juggle competing priorities under tight deadlines.
Work authorization in the United States without the need for new visa sponsorship.

Office-first company requiring employees to work in-office at least 3 days a week on average.