AI Governance Counsel

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.

• Help build, roll out, and embed Adyen's enterprise-wide AI governance framework, policies, and standards, driving consistency as AI adoption scales across the business.
• Design and operationalize AI risk and impact assessments across the AI lifecycle - from intake and risk classification through deployment, monitoring, and decommissioning - with particular focus on generative and agentic AI use cases.
• Interpret the EU AI Act, the NIST AI Risk Management Framework, and other applicable AI laws across Adyen's global footprint, and translate them into practical policies, playbooks, and procedures for first-line teams.
• Support the teams that maintain Adyen's AI inventories by defining governance parameters and requirements for cataloguing and risk-classifying AI tools and use cases.
• Develop enterprise guidance and a consistent approach for evaluating AI systems, covering performance, fairness, and explainability expectations appropriate to each use case's risk profile.
• Design simple, proportionate, risk-tiered processes and “green paths” that make responsible AI the easy path for fast-moving teams.
• Translate model-evaluation techniques - including fairness, bias, and adversarial (red-teaming) testing - into clear procedures that technology teams can apply to their own models and tools.
• Partner with Enterprise Risk, Security, Product, Compliance, Legal, Regulatory, and Engineering to run the AI governance program and align on controls, escalation, and human-oversight protocols.
• Advise on privacy considerations across the AI lifecycle, coordinating with the wider DPO Office on the interaction between AI assessments and data protection.
• Design and deliver AI governance training and promote AI literacy and a culture of responsible, accountable AI use.
• Monitor global AI and privacy developments and translate them into proportionate governance requirements, supporting responses to audit, regulatory, and client inquiries.

• 7+ years in governance/privacy: proven background building, deploying, and managing global AI or privacy governance programs, ideally within regulated, multi-jurisdictional environments.
• Legal/risk qualification: qualified lawyer or governance professional with substantial experience in AI governance, privacy, or technology risk. US jurisdiction admission is a plus.
• Regulated sector background: prior experience in payments, financial services, or other heavily regulated industries is preferred.
• Solid working knowledge of the EU AI Act, NIST AI RMF, and ISO/IEC 42001, along with global privacy regulations (GDPR, CCPA/CPRA).
• Familiarity with LLMs, autonomy levels, human-in-the-loop design, and tool/action permissioning.
• Understanding of model evaluation techniques including fairness, bias, drift, performance, explainability, and red teaming.
• Skilled at converting complex, fast-evolving AI regulations into practical, business-aligned guidance for non-technical stakeholders.
• Proven ability to partner with and drive adoption across Risk, Security, Product, Compliance, Legal, and Engineering without relying on direct authority.
• Strong drafting, communication, and stakeholder-management skills paired with a proactive, builder mindset.

• Base salary range: $210,000 - $275,000.
• Office-first company; in-person collaboration valued; no remote-only roles.