Global Partner Engineering Manager (Payments)

Join Adyen, a leading global payment company, as the Global Partner Engineering Manager for the Payments Partner Engineering team. In this role, you will lead a team of Payment Partner Engineers, drive integration reliability and performance, and evolve the Partner Engineering function. You will need a solid technical foundation, deep operational instincts, and a proven ability to build and develop high-performing teams.

• Lead, mentor, and coach a global team of Payment Partner Engineers, fostering their growth and ensuring they are effective technical counterparts to Adyen's payment partners.
• Define and drive a vision for the Payments Partner Engineering function — shifting the team's center of gravity from reactive issue management toward proactive partnership, performance ownership, and operational leverage.
• Own integration health across Adyen's payment method portfolio, with accountability for reliability, performance (auth rates, settlement, disputes, etc.), and the team’s service model to internal and external stakeholders.
• Solid understanding of payments — familiarity with card schemes, payment method integrations, and API-based payment flows is strongly preferred
• Comfortable with technical concepts at the API and systems level; able to engage credibly with engineers and technical partners without needing to be a hands-on software engineer
• 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
• Proven experience driving operational improvements — identifying the root causes of recurring issues and building sustainable processes, tooling, or automation to address them
• Ability to build and maintain trusted relationships with senior internal stakeholders and payment partner counterparts
• High agency: you don't wait for direction. You identify opportunities, form a point of view, get alignment, and move
• Strong communicator and cross-functional influencer; comfortable navigating ambiguity and driving alignment across Product, Engineering, Commercial, and external partner teams