Head of Growth Scheme Compliance

Adyen is a financial technology company providing a unified platform for payments, data, and financial products.

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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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About the Role

You will lead growth initiatives across products, geographies, payment methods, and partner models. You will translate regulatory and scheme requirements into systems, data models, frameworks, and tooling; prioritize launches and market expansion; identify merchant opportunities; define operating models and guardrails; and guide complex decisions involving growth, risk, compliance, and commercial impact.

Requirements

  • Product mindset and experience translating regulatory requirements into system behavior
  • Experience leading global cross-functional initiatives
  • Deep understanding of payments ecosystems
  • Experience with card networks alternative payment methods or acquiring models
  • Ability to design platform-level guardrails
  • Commercial judgment across regulatory partner and operational risk
  • Experience evaluating payment flows and defining launch guardrails
  • Senior stakeholder management and influence skills
  • Experience building and coaching high-performing teams
  • Creative problem-solving for merchant use cases

Responsibilities

  • Lead and scale a globally distributed growth team
  • Define the Scheme Compliance growth strategy
  • Prioritize product launches market expansion and payment method onboarding
  • Translate merchant demand into growth priorities and build decisions
  • Define payment flows data models and configuration standards
  • Standardize operating models control points and monitoring requirements
  • Drive cross-functional programs across Commercial Partnerships Legal Risk and Product
  • Resolve ambiguous growth opportunities by balancing speed risk and commercial impact
  • Establish launch constraint and decline decision frameworks
  • Build playbooks tooling requirements and training programs
  • Design scalable solutions for nonstandard merchant business models

Benefits

  • Equity in the form of RSUs
  • 401(k)
  • Health insurance
  • Dental insurance
  • Vision insurance
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