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This is Adyen

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.

We seek an enthusiastic Engineering Lead to lead our global Checkout teams and contribute to our mission to empower Adyen's customers to optimise their payment performance and shopper experience. The Checkout team owns the end-to-end development cycle for all Checkout products. This includes back-end, Web based, Mobile and hosted Checkout products that are being used by millions of shoppers around the globe every day.

In this role, you will be a manager of managers and responsible to set and execute on the strategy for Adyen's Checkout products together with your Product counterpart. You help your team to build their products as effectively as possible, while aligning with your many internal and external stakeholders to achieve the best possible outcome for Adyen's customers. Working with a global team and different technology stacks excite you and you're not afraid to challenge the status quo.

Key Responsibilities:

• Cross-Functional Collaboration:

  Collaborate closely with design, product, engineers, sales, account management, and other key stakeholders within Adyen to foster seamless collaboration and drive product development excellence

• Product Strategy:

  Craft a long-term vision for your team's product, striking a pragmatic balance between trade-offs and aligning it with the overarching company vision

• Team Motivation and Coaching:

  Exhibit leadership and inspire your managers, acting as a catalyst by coaching in areas such as engineering best practices, scalable architecture design, and product roadmap planning

• Goal Setting:

  Establish clear team objectives that harmonize with Adyen's strategic payment objectives, working closely with the product managers to achieve alignment

• Team Environment:

  Cultivate an inspirational and collaborative team environment characterized by open communication and a culture of constructive feedback

• Talent Acquisition:

  Lead the recruitment of new team members who embody the Adyen culture and possess the requisite skills to make meaningful contributions

Requirements:

• Experience:

   
• You have at least 3 years of experience as manager of managers. 

• Technical Proficiency:

   
• You have worked with back-end, front-end and mobile applications, and you're skilled in bridging gaps and ensuring compatibility across diverse platforms. 
• You have a strong understanding of security, compliance and privacy best practices.
• Reliability is a priority for you and you have experience working with critical systems. 

• Leadership Qualities: 

• You are a dynamic self-starter adept at fostering alignment across multiple teams, with solid coaching and mentoring capabilities. You have a track record of hiring and growing top talent. 

• Customer Facing: 

• You love spending time speaking directly with customers, building long-lasting relationships (both internally and externally), and understanding the real-world impact of the decisions you make add value to commercial internal conversations and merchant meetings.

• Strategic Thinking: 

• You enjoy and have a track record of collaborating with senior leadership to shape strategic direction. You're able to translate business goals into engineering initiatives in a way that excites your team.

• Communication and Team Player:

   
• As an exceptional communicator, you foster a culture of collaboration while exhibiting robust management skills and technical acumen

If you're seeking an exhilarating opportunity to optimize the way shoppers pay online, we invite you to join our team and contribute significantly to transforming the global payment landscape.

Our Diversity, Equity and Inclusion commitments 

Our unique approach is a product of our diverse perspectives. This diversity of backgrounds and cultures is essential in helping us maintain our momentum. Our business and technical challenges are unique, and we need as many different voices as possible to join us in solving them - voices like yours. No matter who you are or where you're from, we welcome you to be your true self at Adyen. 

Studies show that women and members of underrepresented communities apply for jobs only if they meet 100% of the qualifications. Does this sound like you? If so, Adyen encourages you to reconsider and apply. We look forward to your application!

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 your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

This role is based out of our Amsterdam office. We are an office-first company and value in-person collaboration; we do not offer remote-only roles.