Payments & Product Partnerships Counsel, Americas

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

At a glance

Adyen is seeking a Payments & Product Partnerships Counsel for the Americas to build and scale the legal framework for critical financial and technology infrastructure relationships.
The role acts as a principal advisor to partnerships, product, risk, and compliance teams, managing a broad range of transactions across financial services ecosystems and technology.

Partner with 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 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 on operation and interpretation of partner agreements, partner and regulatory 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, consumer protection, and marketing.
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 as a capable contract generalist able to spot a broad range of legal issues across disciplines such as contract, regulatory, IP, and privacy.
Experience as an avid drafter with an aversion to gratuitous legalese and a seasoned lead negotiator able to communicate practical, risk-based solutions.
Excellent English-language communication skills, with the capacity to translate complex legal and contractual concepts to technical teams and non-lawyer audiences.
Constitutional curiosity and enthusiasm to self-educate quickly on complex business models, technologies, and product use cases.
Strong, risk-tuned judgment, outstanding project management skills, and the ability to juggle competing priorities under tight deadlines.

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