Senior Product Manager - Cards Acquiring

EngineersOfAI; Amsterdam; Hybrid; EUR 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Adyen is seeking a Senior Product Manager for Global Acquiring in Amsterdam. You will own the strategy and roadmap for key parts of our acquiring platform, collaborating with engineering, payments networks, partnerships, and commercial teams to deliver scalable, reliable payments capabilities.

You will enable improvements in authorization rates, merchant conversion, and platform scalability while shaping how Adyen expands into new markets and capabilities across the global payments landscape.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of Product Management experience building complex software products.
• Domain knowledge in Payments or Fintech, preferably with knowledge of card acquiring.
• Experience leading highly cross-functional initiatives involving engineering, commercial teams, partnerships, and external partners.
• Ability to translate highly technical payment infrastructure into clear product strategies and measurable outcomes.
• Strong analytical mindset and data-driven prioritization.
• Comfort navigating ambiguity and turning complex problems into scalable product solutions.
• Excellent communication to influence senior stakeholders internally and externally.
• A focus on building products that create measurable value for merchants while strengthening the platform.

Responsibilities

• Define and own the product strategy and roadmap for a critical area of Adyen's Global Acquiring.
• Build scalable acquiring capabilities that improve payment performance, increase authorization rates, and maximize merchant conversion.
• Partner with Visa, Mastercard, AmEx and other networks to influence roadmaps, implement capabilities, and ensure compliance.
• Drive cross-functional initiatives across Engineering, Partnerships, Commercial, Compliance, Operations and Product teams.
• Translate evolving scheme requirements into scalable platform capabilities rather than one-off solutions.
• Use data to identify opportunities that improve merchant performance and platform scalability.
• Lead difficult product decisions through influence and aligning stakeholders without direct authority.
• Mentor other product managers and raise overall product management quality within the organization.

Skills

Product management

Payments knowledge

Cross-functional leadership

Data-driven decision making

Stakeholder management

Communication

Ambiguity handling

Mentoring others

Job description

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.

Senior Product Manager, Global Acquiring

Adyen's Global Acquiring team powers the core card payment infrastructure behind billions of transactions worldwide. Through our direct connections with Visa, Mastercard, American Express, Discover, Diners Club, JCB, and China UnionPay, we enable merchants to accept payments globally with industry-leading reliability, performance, and innovation.
As a Senior Product Manager, you will own the strategy and roadmap for critical parts of our global acquiring platform. You'll build the products that improve authorization rates, maximize merchant conversion, strengthen platform reliability, and enable Adyen to launch new payment capabilities and expand into new markets.
You'll work at the intersection of engineering, payment networks, partnerships, commercial teams, compliance, and operations to transform the complex payments industry into scalable innovative platform capabilities that benefit every Adyen merchant. Your work will shape how millions of payments are processed every day while ensuring our platform remains the most reliable and innovative acquiring solution in the industry.

What you'll do:

• Define and own the product strategy and roadmap for a critical area of Adyen's Global Acquiring.
• Build scalable acquiring capabilities that improve payment performance, increase authorization rates, and maximize merchant conversion.
• Partner directly with Visa, Mastercard, American Express and other global payment networks to influence roadmaps, implement new capabilities, and ensure ongoing compliance.
• Drive complex cross-functional initiatives across Engineering, Partnerships, Commercial, Compliance, Operations and Product teams.
• Translate changing scheme requirements into scalable platform capabilities rather than one-off merchant solutions.
• Use data to identify opportunities that improve merchant performance, operational efficiency, and platform scalability.
• Lead difficult product decisions through influence, aligning stakeholders across multiple organizations without direct authority.
• Mentor other product managers and contribute to raising the overall quality of product management within the organization.

Who you are:

• You have 8+ years of Product Management experience building complex software products at scale.
• You have domain knowledge in Payments or Fintech; preferably with knowledge of card acquiring.
• You have successfully led highly cross-functional initiatives involving engineering, commercial teams, partnerships, and external partners.
• You can simplify highly technical payment infrastructure into clear product strategies and business outcomes.
• You are highly analytical and use data to drive prioritization and measure impact.
• You are comfortable navigating ambiguity and consistently turn complex problems into scalable product solutions.
• You are an excellent communicator who can influence senior stakeholders both internally and externally.
• You care deeply about building products that create measurable value for merchants while strengthening Adyen's platform.

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