Forward Deployed Engineering Team Lead Operations
Adyen is a financial technology company providing a unified platform for payments, data, and financial products. It serves global enterprises, retailers, platforms, marketplaces, and other high-growth businesses.
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About Adyen
Adyen provides payment processing and financial technology services through a single platform. Its offerings include online and in-person payments, payment methods, risk management, authentication, revenue optimization, issuing, payouts, liquidity management, embedded accounts, and capital. Adyen typically serves global enterprises, retailers, SaaS platforms, marketplaces, and other high-growth businesses.
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Candidate Availability
Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
You set the AI and innovation direction for Operations, prioritize valuable use cases, lead a team of Forward Deployed AI specialists, build practical AI adoption, translate emerging technology into operational implications, connect company capabilities to Operations needs, represent Operations in engineering, and track delivered value.
Requirements
- Operational transformation experience
- Experience scaling AI, automation, or digital workflow improvements
- Technical understanding of architectures, trade-offs, and risks
- Experience working with engineering or technical teams
- Executive presence
- Cross-functional influence
- Operating model or governance experience
- Ability to work in fast-paced and ambiguous environments
Responsibilities
- Set the AI and innovation direction for Operations
- Prioritize use cases based on business value, feasibility, and readiness
- Lead the central Operations innovation model
- Lead Forward Deployed AI specialists
- Build practical AI adoption across Operations
- Translate AI landscape developments into operational implications
- Coordinate capability development with business enablement teams
- Represent Operations in central engineering
- Track progress and value delivered
