Hardware Partner Engineering Team Lead

Join Adyen, a leading global payment company, as a Hardware Partner Engineering Team Lead. In this hands-on player-coach role, you will manage a small team of Partner Engineers while personally owning the technical relationship with one of our key terminal OEM partners. You will be the primary day-to-day technical interface with our hardware OEM partners, driving accountability on open issues, representing our product strategy, and building the tooling and processes needed for scaling. This role is foundational to Adyen's hardware offerings and will shape how the company manages OEM technical relationships for years to come.

• Manage and coach a small team of Hardware Partner Engineers, while personally owning the technical relationship with one of our key terminal OEM partners.
• Act as Adyen's primary technical point of contact for assigned OEM partner(s), driving issues to resolution and ensuring alignment across internal teams.
• Build the operating model for the Hardware Partner Engineering function, defining team structure, ways of working, and escalation paths as Adyen adds OEM relationships.
• The ideal candidate combines direct engineering or systems experience (ideally in embedded/hardware or device-adjacent environments) with proven people leadership, and brings a proactive, high-agency mindset to building a team and function from an early stage
• Based in or willing to work from Amsterdam; comfortable with some travel and with schedules that occasionally span partner teams in Asia and US time zones
• Proven experience driving operational improvement — turning a backlog of recurring issues into sustainable processes, tooling, or automation rather than one-off firefighting
• Direct people management experience, or clear readiness to step into a first management role, with a track record of coaching and developing technical, partner-facing Partner Engineers
• Comfortable diagnosing technical issues at the systems/device level and engaging credibly with OEM engineering counterparts — you don't need to be the one writing embedded firmware, but you need to understand it well enough to hold partners accountable
• 5+ years of hands-on technical experience (software/systems engineering, embedded systems, or technical program management), ideally with exposure to hardware, embedded, or device-level environments
• Ability to build trusted relationships with external partner engineering teams, including counterparts based in Asia and EMEA
• Strong cross-functional communicator, comfortable driving alignment across Product, Engineering, Reliability, and Commercial teams, and navigating ambiguity in a function that is still being defined
• High agency: you identify opportunities, form a point of view, get alignment, and move — without waiting for the function to be fully built out around you
• 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!