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
Lead, mentor, and coach a global team of Payment Partner Engineers, fostering: their growth and ensuring they are effective technical counterparts to Adyen's payment partners.
Define and drive a vision for the Paments Partner Engineering function: shifting the team's center of gravity from reactive issue management toward proactive partnership, performance ownership, and operational leverage.
Own integration health across Adyen's payment method portfolio, with: accountability for reliability, performance (auth rates, settlement, disputes, etc.), and the team’s service model to internal and external stakeholders.
Drive strategic architectural recommendations to ensure partners optimally: integrate with Adyen, maximizing value for Adyen’s merchant customers.
Partner cross-functionally with Product, Engineering, Commercial, Compliance,: and Reliability teams to represent the "technical voice of the partner" and drive action on integration issues and improvements.
Establish and maintain direct relationships with payment partners at a senior: level, including participation in QBRs, joint business planning, and escalation management.
What they're looking for
- Use Adyen's planning processes to secure resources, define team structure,: and drive alignment with senior stakeholders on prioritization and team direction.
- + years of direct line management experience of technical or hybrid: technical/operational teams, with a track record of hiring, developing, and managing senior individual contributors.
- Solid understanding of payments: familiarity with card schemes, payment method integrations, and API-based payment flows is strongly preferred.
- Comfortable with technical concepts at the API and systems level; able to: engage credibly with engineers and technical partners without needing to be a hands-on software engineer.
