The opportunity
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.
What you'll 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.
What they're looking for
- 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.
- 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.
