Global Partner Engineering Manager, Payments

About the role

Adyen is seeking a Global Partner Engineering Manager for Payments. The leader will have a solid technical foundation, deep operational instincts, and a proven ability to build and develop high‑performing teams. You will own the health of Adyen’s payment partner integrations—including global card schemes, banks, wallets, and alternative payment methods—and evolve the function from reactive issue handling to proactive partnership and performance ownership.

Key responsibilities

• Lead, mentor, and coach a global team of Payment Partner Engineers, ensuring they serve as effective technical counterparts to Adyen’s payment partners.
• Define and drive a vision for the Payments Partner Engineering function, shifting focus from reactive issue management to proactive partnership, performance ownership, and operational leverage.
• Own integration health across Adyen’s payment method portfolio, accountable for reliability, performance (auth rates, settlement, disputes, etc.) and the team’s service model.
• Provide strategic architectural recommendations to optimise partner integrations and maximise value for merchants.
• Partner cross‑functionally with Product, Engineering, Commercial, Compliance and Reliability teams to represent the technical voice of the partner.
• Establish and maintain senior‑level relationships with payment partners, participating in QBRs, joint business planning and escalation management.
• Use Adyen’s planning processes to secure resources, define team structure and align priorities with senior stakeholders.

Required profile

• 8+ 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, including familiarity with card schemes, payment method integrations and API‑based payment flows.
• Comfortable with technical concepts at the API and systems level and able to engage credibly with engineers and technical partners.
• Proven experience driving operational improvements by identifying root causes and building sustainable processes, tooling or automation.
• Strong communicator and cross‑functional influencer, able to navigate ambiguity and drive alignment across product, engineering, commercial and partner teams.
• Ability to build and maintain trusted relationships with senior internal stakeholders and payment‑partner counterparts.
• High agency: proactively identifies opportunities, forms a point of view, secures alignment and moves forward without waiting for direction.