About the company
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.
Responsibilities
- Set Vision & Strategy: Define and own the long-term vision and strategy for Adyen's global banking network, grounded in customer value and measurable business impact.
- Translate market infrastructure opportunities and regulatory requirements into clear priorities, actionable roadmaps, and success metrics.
- Simplify a complex, fragmented space of local schemes, clearing houses, and payment rails by defining clear, actionable integration and capability use cases alongside your engineering and commercial teams.
- Lead the end-to-end product lifecycle for banking network integrations and the underlying banking capabilities.
- Lead Through Influence: Operate as the primary product authority for global banking networks across Adyen.
- Serve as a subject matter expert on Adyen's core banking system, clearing and settlement flows, and the market infrastructures Adyen connects to.
- Partner closely with Engineering, Compliance, Risk, Support, Sales, and Implementation teams to align our banking capabilities with evolving customer and regulatory needs.
- Align on shared standards, tooling, and roadmap dependencies to ensure a consistent global banking product.
- Manage the focus and dedication (in functional matrix report) of the 2 PMs in the Banking Networks Global team.
- Build for Scale & Customer-Centric: Design and scale reliable integrations across diverse banking partners and payment rails, with a focus on markets outside North America.
- Collaborate with engineering to maximize the performance, reliability, and scalability of Adyen's core banking processing infrastructure.
- Interact directly with customers, commercial teams, and partners to understand their pain points, gather feedback, and translate their needs into core product requirements.
- Monitor product metrics and identify continuous optimization opportunities to guarantee data accuracy, operational efficiency, and customer satisfaction.
- Take full ownership of specific initiatives from initial scoping through final delivery, managing timelines and stakeholder expectations.
Requirements
- Experienced Product Leader: You have a minimum of 12 years of experience in product management or an adjacent function within a fintech or financial services environment focused on payments. You are customer centric and build for the benefit of all customers.
- Proven Record in Banking Infrastructure: You have experience launching and scaling transactional banking products and have in-depth experience with at least one major market infrastructure (e.g., a clearing house, real-time payment rail, or banking scheme).
- Strategic Thinker with a Hands-on Mentality: A self-starter with proven organizational and commercial strength. You have excellent project management skills and the ability to lead time-sensitive, cross-functional initiatives in a fast-paced environment with little supervision. You are able to challenge the status quo.
- Analytical Problem Solver: You are naturally curious, data-driven, and comfortable navigating ambiguity. You excel at taking complex challenges and converting them into structured, actionable solutions for both internal and external stakeholders.
- Humble, Curious, and a Quick Learner: You possess a strong sense of initiative and self-motivation. You are eager to dive deep into complex banking flows, financial data, and technical constraints to proactively identify problems and propose long-term solutions.