Senior regulatory product counsel - integrity risk

Werkgever:
Adyen
Regio:
Amsterdam
 
Functieomschrijving

This is Adyen

Adyen is a leading financial technology platform, and an exciting place to build your legal career! In 2024, we processed over 1 trillion EUR trillion in payments for some of the world's largest and most sophisticated companies, including Meta, Microsoft, McDonald's, Uber, Spotify, Netflix, , , and eBay. We’re now leveraging our global licenses to expand our financial product suite to merchants across the US, EMEA, and beyond, with innovative offerings like Adyen Capital, Issuing, and Accounts. We’re looking for an energetic and entrepreneurial product counsel to help us with this next phase of growth.


Our unique culture, based on the Adyen Formula, encourages high agency and autonomy in crafting your own career path. 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.


About the Team


Regulatory Product Counsel


The Regulatory Product team Counsel is responsible for managing the regulatory elements of the design, build, and maturation of our financial product suite. We work on some of the most challenging and novel issues at the intersection of technology and financial services, and we’re looking for a 10x product lawyer to join our team. 


What you’ll do


You will be responsible for partnering closely with our Product, Compliance, Engineering, Regulatory Affairs, and Commercial teams to design and deliver world class regulated financial products that align with Adyen's risk appetite and regulatory obligations. In this role, you will:

  • Advise the global product team on a range of issues including UK- and EMEA region financial regulatory requirements, consumer protection, data privacy, marketing, and integrity risk issues as they relate to Adyen’s financial product suite;

  • Collaborate with internal teams, including Regulatory, Engineering, Compliance, and Operations to scope and build scalable and effective processes for review and launch of new products;

  • Partner closely with Regulatory and Compliance to define controls that ensure Adyen's Product Suite is regulatory compliant, considering commercial and strategic objectives that allow for scale;

  • Translate Adyen’s regulatory approach into relevant global Policies and Procedures to be communicated and implemented across the global business;

  • Embrace your role as a proactive business partner and build trusted advisor relationships with key stakeholders by offering legal, regulatory and strategic business input to compliantly accelerate Adyen’s product roadmap and strategy; and

  • Commit to perpetual learning and moving intentionally to help Adyen navigate a complex and heavily regulated financial services environment

    • Who you are 

  • You have 7+ years of experience in a product legal and/or regulatory function, in a fintech, payments company or financial institution;

  • You are deeply curious about how things work from a technical perspective and dive into the details to find out;

  • You have a strong working knowledge of UK and EMEA-region financial services regulations (including, for example, Wwft, AMLD5, AMLR, Sanctiewet, Wire Transfer Regulation and Instant Payments Regulation, amongst others) and experience crafting policies, procedures, and advice for product teams based on these regimes;

  • You are able to translate complex legal, regulatory, and technical challenges and translate them into structured and practical solutions;

  • You are a hands-on lawyer, with strong project and stakeholder management skills, and the ability to communicate effectively across mediums, disciplines, and timezones;

  • You have an LLB and/or LLM degree.

    • Why you should join Adyen’s Regulatory Product team


    As a financial technology platform and licensed credit institution, Adyen operates in a highly regulated environment that is subject to ever changing laws, regulations and standards. The EMEA Regulatory team is entrusted with empowering Adyen’s future by transforming regulatory complexity into opportunity. The team consists of international regulatory experts, product compliance professionals, and product counsel from diverse backgrounds. Our business challenges are unique and we welcome different perspectives in solving them - voices like yours could make a difference. With Adyen continuously pioneering in payments and making significant strides in the embedded financial products domain, the Regulatory Product- Integrity Risk team is excited to impact the most innovative payments and financial products in the market and to play a vital role in shaping the evolving regulatory landscape.