Payment & Product Partnerships Counsel - EMEA Job at Adyen (London)

Job Responsibility

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 that support Adyen's product and technical stack
Structure, draft, and negotiate strategic infrastructure partnership agreements to enable and optimize Adyen's payments and financial products across our Europe and Middle East markets
Collaborate with product, regulatory, compliance, risk, finance, partnerships, and other cross-functional teams to ensure our partner deals conform to our regulatory positions and support our product development, market expansion, and commercial objectives
Counsel stakeholders across the business on operation and interpretation of partner agreements (including scheme, network, and operating rules), partner and regulatory ecosystem interdependencies, and corresponding risks and opportunities affecting Adyen's product and go-to-market strategies
Scale our deal cycles and the products they support by generating and maintaining documents and other 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 and outsourcing, privacy, data security, consumer protection in financial services, and marketing
Build relationships as a trusted advisor by providing clear, practical, actionable guidance in areas involving significant ambiguity or rapid industry evolution

Requirements

8+ years experience as a qualified 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 (e.g., a network, a fintech, another financial institution) collaborate to stand up and run a unified financial product or service, preferably a payment, credit, or lending product
A capable contract generalist who's able to spot a broad range of legal issues across disciplines (e.g., contract, regulatory, IP, privacy)
an avid drafter with a passion for simple, elegant language and an aversion to gratuitous legalese
and, a seasoned lead negotiator who is able to identify and communicate practical, risk-based solutions to deal points persuasively and on the fly
Excellent English-language communication skills, with the capacity to translate complex legal and contractual concepts to technical teams and other 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

Nice to have

Proficiency in Spanish or Portuguese is a strong plus but not required
Experience in payments, lending, and fintech are a plus, but not required

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