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About the Role
Adyen is seeking a senior, strategic, and product-minded leader to head the Global Growth pillar within Schemes Compliance. This role is pivotal at the intersection of compliance, product, partnerships, and commercial strategy, enabling business growth while ensuring scalable, well-controlled solutions. You will lead a globally distributed team to unlock new products, markets, local payment methods, and partner models by designing compliant operating models, accelerating launches, and building scalable solutions in close collaboration with Product and Engineering. You will also work closely with Commercial and Sales to identify merchant needs and revenue opportunities, ensuring merchant demand shapes growth priorities and builds a roadmap. This role acts as a key bridge between compliance and product, translating regulatory, scheme, and partner requirements into systems, frameworks, and tooling that enable speed without compromising control, and helps shape Adyen's approach to new and emerging payment models globally.
Responsibilities
- Lead, develop, and scale a globally distributed team focused on enabling growth initiatives across products, geographies, and payment methods.
- Define the growth strategy for Scheme Compliance, working with cross-functional leaders to prioritize new product launches, market expansion, and onboarding of payment methods and financial partners.
- Partner with Commercial and Sales to identify high-value merchant needs and revenue opportunities, translating merchant demand into clear growth priorities, requirements, and build decisions for Product and Engineering.
- Partner closely with Product and Engineering to define payment flows, data models, and configuration standards that embed compliance requirements into systems rather than manual processes.
- Define and standardize operating models for new business lines, including clear control points, monitoring requirements, and defensible documentation for regulators and partners.
- Drive cross-functional programs across Commercial, Partnerships, Legal, Risk, and Product to accelerate time-to-market for strategic initiatives.
- Act as an escalation point for complex or ambiguous growth opportunities, balancing speed, risk, and commercial impact.
- Identify friction in existing payments compliance or partner requirements and proactively design solutions or influence changes to unlock growth.
- Establish clear frameworks for decision-making (e.g., what to launch, constrain, or decline), ensuring consistency across regions and teams.
- Build playbooks, tooling requirements, and training programs to increase organizational fluency in growth-related compliance topics.
- Design scalable solutions for merchants whose business models do not fit neatly within network mandates, creatively problem-solving to support merchants, challenge network interpretations where appropriate, and partner with Product to build repeatable operating models that unlock revenue opportunities for other merchants.
Requirements
- Strong product mindset, with experience translating regulatory and scheme requirements into system behavior, data structures, and configuration rules in partnership with Product and Engineering.
- Proven experience leading global, cross-functional initiatives that involve multiple stakeholders (e.g., Product, Legal, Commercial, Partnerships).
- Deep understanding of payments ecosystems, including card networks, alternative payment methods, and/or acquiring models.
- Demonstrated ability to design platform-level guardrails for new payment flows or business models and to decide when to launch, constrain, or decline based on risk/reward.
- Strong commercial judgment, with the ability to balance growth objectives against regulatory, partner, and operational risk.
- Experience evaluating new business models or payment flows and defining clear guardrails for launch.
- Excellent stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence senior leaders and drive alignment across functions.
- Comfortable operating in ambiguity and making decisions in fast-moving, high-growth environments.
- Experience building and coaching high-performing teams, particularly in roles that require both strategic thinking and execution.
- Demonstrated ability to think creatively about merchant use cases that sit outside standard network constructs, and to turn those edge cases into scalable, product-enabled solutions.
- Must be work authorized in the United States without the need for new visa sponsorship.
- Company can support visa transfers but will not sponsor individuals for H-1B CAP applications.
Skills
- Payments compliance
- Product strategy
- Partnerships
- Commercial strategy
- Team leadership
- Cross-functional collaboration
- Stakeholder management
- Risk assessment
- Business model evaluation
- Creative problem-solving
Location
- New York City
- San Francisco
Work Type
- Hybrid (office-first, minimum 3 days/week in-office)
Experience Level
- Senior
- Leadership
Salary/Compensations
- $195,000 - $263,000
Benefits
- Equity (RSUs)
- 401(k)
- Health insurance
- Dental insurance
- Vision insurance
About the Company
- Adyen provides payments, data, and financial products in a single solution for customers like Meta, Uber, H&M, and Microsoft, serving as a financial technology platform.
- Adyen fosters an environment with opportunities for employees to succeed, supported by a culture and resources to enable career ownership.
- Adyen's teams are motivated individuals who tackle unique technical challenges at scale and solve them collaboratively, delivering innovative and ethical solutions.
Equal Opportunity
- Adyen is an equal opportunity employer.
- We do not discriminate based on race, color, ethnicity, ancestry, national origin, religion, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, disability, veteran status, genetic information, marital status or any legally protected status.
- All information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.
- We encourage people from all backgrounds and abilities to apply.
- If you need accommodations or support during the recruitment process, you will have the opportunity to let our team know in your application.