--- title: 'Employment Counsel at Adyen' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/employment-counsel-adyen-new-york-mv9ke7341xhm' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-10-28' --- # Employment Counsel at Adyen - **Company:** Adyen - **Location:** New York, NY - **Posted:** 2026-10-23 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-28 - **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/adyen/jobs/8281076 ## Job description This is Adyen Adyen provides payments, data, and financial products in a single solution for customers like Meta, Uber, H&M, and Microsoft - making us the financial technology platform of choice. At Adyen, everything we do is engineered for ambition. For our teams, we create an environment with opportunities for our people to succeed, backed by the culture and support to ensure they are enabled to truly own their careers. We are motivated individuals who tackle unique technical challenges at scale and solve them as a team. Together, we deliver innovative and ethical solutions that help businesses achieve their ambitions faster. Employment Counsel We are looking for a driven and enthusiastic Employment Counsel based in New York to join our global Legal team at Adyen. As Employment Counsel, you will own employment litigation and disputes across the US, manage our external counsel relationships, and advise the business and our HR colleagues on the employment questions that carry the most risk: the escalations that do not have a clean answer. You will also build. This is our only dedicated employment legal role in the US. While your primary coverage will be in the US, a global mindset is essential to success in the role. Alongside your caseload, you will own the frameworks, templates, playbooks, and trainings that enable our HR colleagues to move quickly on routine matters and bring us in on what matters most. You will partner with our Employment Counsel in Amsterdam, our global Corporate Legal team, and HR Business Partners around the world. This is a role for a counsel who is practical, comfortable making a call where the law is unsettled, and who would rather build something reusable than answer the same question every day. What you will do: - Own US employment disputes and litigation: aligning our position with global strategy, posture, and management through to resolution. - Instruct and manage external counsel, holding firms to scope, budget and quality, and building a panel we can rely on across jurisdictions. - Advise on risk, balancing legal exposure against a practical business outcome. - Partner with our HR colleagues on escalated employee matters, bringing legal judgment and privilege where it is needed and enabling them to run with the rest. - Partner with Employment Counsel in Amsterdam. Build the frameworks, playbooks, and legal review of the policies that matter most. - Advise across the full generalist range, including wage and hour, discrimination and accommodation, classification, leave, and pay transparency. - Take a global view. Build frameworks that travel beyond the US, and shape our global employment legal strategy together with colleagues in EMEA, APAC and LATAM. - Train and upskill HR colleagues, people leads and managers, so that good practice is built in rather than reviewed after the fact. Who you are: - Have around 7+ years of employment law experience or more, in house or at a law firm, including strong US employment litigation experience running matters through agencies and the courts and directing external counsel. - Employment generalist who is comfortable with the grey. Where the law is unsettled you give a clear recommendation, explain the risk you are accepting, and own the call. - Have an in-house mindset. You tie your advice to a business objective and you know the difference between a real risk and a theoretical one. - Can work autonomously and run things like your own business. You are comfortable being the only employment lawyer in region and building from there. - Take a global approach and do not assume any one jurisdiction is the default. You collaborate easily with legal and HR colleagues across the US, LATAM, EMEA and APAC. - Exercise discretion and sound judgment on sensitive and confidential matters, and you can structure and prioritize your work in a high volume, fast-paced environment. - Admitted to practice in the United States and in good standing. - Available to work from our New York office and travel to other offices periodically. - Fluent in English, both written and spoken. Any additional language is a plus. ## Compensation The base salary range for this role is $160,000- $212,500. To learn more about our compensation philosophy, please click [here](https://docs.google.com/document/d/11U2tgFev7p271JMQWMApZjtpJ3pGHNES7EvscXnsH3k/edit?tab=t.0). Location & Work Model This role is based out of our New York office. We are an office-first company and value in-person collaboration; we do not offer remote-only roles. Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion at Adyen We actively seek different perspectives to sharpen our ideas. Our unique culture is a product of our diverse backgrounds and experiences. No matter who you are or where you’re from, you’re welcome to be your true self at Adyen. If you need accommodations or support during the recruitment process to perform at your best, you’ll have the opportunity to let our team know in your application. We encourage people from all backgrounds and abilities to apply. What’s next? Ensuring a smooth and enjoyable candidate experience is critical for us. We aim to get back to you regarding your application within 5 business days. Our interview process tends to take about 4 weeks to complete, but may fluctuate depending on the role. [Learn more about our hiring process here](https://careers.adyen.com/how-we-hire). Don’t be afraid to let us know if you need more flexibility. Adyen is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based on race, color, ethnicity, ancestry, national origin, religion, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, disability, veteran status, genetic information, marital status or any legally protected status. All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines. San Francisco Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records. This role is based out of our New York office. We are an office-first company and value in-person collaboration; we do not offer remote-only roles. ## About Adyen ## Company Overview - **One-liner**: Adyen provides a unified financial technology platform with end-to-end payment capabilities, data insights, and financial products designed for ambitious global businesses. - **Entity Type**: Public (ticker not specified in provided sources) - **Headquarters**: Amsterdam, Netherlands - **Founded**: 2006 - **Founders**: Pieter van der Does (Co-founder, CEO) and others ## Core Business - Primary industry: Financial technology (fintech) – payments, embedded finance, and data analytics. - Target customers: B2B, Enterprise (retail, travel & hospitality, SaaS platforms, marketplaces, food & beverage, digital media, financial services). - Mission: “Engineered for ambition” – help businesses grow faster with a single, modern platform. ## Products & Services - **Unified Payments Platform**: Accept, settle, and move money online, in-app, and in-store via one API supporting 200+ local payment methods and 150+ currencies. - **Adyen for Platforms**: Enables marketplaces and SaaS platforms to manage payments, payouts, and money movement for their users. - **Adyen Issuing**: Issue physical and virtual cards under the client’s brand. - **Adyen Embedded Finance**: Embed payments, accounts, card issuing, and capital into third-party products. - **Risk Management & Fraud Tools**: Built‑in optimization to reduce fraud and lower payment costs. - **Terminal API & Point of Sale (POS)**: Integrated in‑person payment hardware. - **Adyen Giving**: Donation feature for charitable contributions at checkout. - **Adyen Agentic** (new): AI‑platform commerce capabilities. ## Market Standing - **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not provided in search results (public company). - **Key Metric**: Processed volume of €970.1 BN in 2023 [adyen.com/about]. - **Notable Customers/Partners**: Meta, Nord Security, L’Occitane, Rectangle Health, Vagaro, Groupon (first global enterprise merchant) [adyen.com]. - **Growth Signals**: - 4,000+ employees representing 115+ nationalities [adyen.com/about]. - 28–29 offices across Europe, North America, Asia Pacific, Latin America, and the Middle East [adyen.com/about]. - Obtained US, UK, EU banking licenses and acquiring licenses in Japan, UAE, Malaysia, Puerto Rico, Singapore, Hong Kong, Australia, New Zealand [adyen.com/about]. - Launched Adyen Agentic and continues to expand embedded finance offerings. ## Competitive Advantages - 99.999% historical platform uptime [adyen.com]. - Single API that supports multiple use cases and channels, reducing integration complexity. - Fully in‑house built technology (no third‑party patchwork). - Direct acquiring licenses in multiple regions, providing local expertise and compliance. - Data‑driven optimizations powered by trillions of euros in transaction data. - Engineering‑first culture with a focus on speed, autonomy, and long‑term thinking. ## Strategic Focus - Expand global footprint and acquiring licenses. - Grow embedded finance and platform products (Adyen for Platforms, Issuing, Capital). - Launch AI‑powered commerce via Adyen Agentic. - Maintain high reliability and compliance (US, UK, EU banking licenses). - Attract and retain top engineering talent to solve complex financial challenges. ## Why Work Here - **Culture**: “Office‑first” with flexibility – believes in‑person collaboration builds genuine connection [careers.adyen.com]. - **Benefits**: “Adyen+” monthly financial contribution for individual needs (childcare, language courses, home office setup), plus health insurance, commute allowance, lunch in office, and local benefits. - **Engineering**: Engineers tackle unique challenges in financial technology; culture emphasizes launching fast, iterating, winning as a team, and creating your own path (“The Adyen Formula”). - **Global Team**: 115+ nationalities across 28 offices; diverse, collaborative environment. ## Sources 1. [adyen.com/about](https://www.adyen.com/about) 2. [adyen.com](https://www.adyen.com/) 3. [careers.adyen.com](https://careers.adyen.com/) 4. [careers.adyen.com/vacancies](https://careers.adyen.com/vacancies) 5. 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