Senior Product Manager - Developer Experience

Adyen; Amsterdam; On-site; EUR 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Adyen is seeking a Senior Product Manager for the Internal Developer Platform (IDP) to drive scalable developer experiences across the SDLC. You will partner with IDP engineers to reduce toil, drive automation, and balance innovation with reliability for a global engineering footprint.

You will own product lifecycle decisions, deprecations, and adoption strategies while building strong technical context and governance across GitLab, Jira, and related tooling.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of product experience in platform engineering or DevEx.
• Able to discuss system architecture, CI/CD constraints and governance balance.
• Strong change management and adoption skills in opinionated tech environments.
• Data-driven with ability to translate feedback and usage data into impact metrics.
• Comfortable operating in ambiguity and delivering quickly without perfect information.

Responsibilities

• Optimize the SDLC to reduce friction and CI flakiness.
• Own product lifecycle, deprecations, and adoption paths for core tools.
• Bridge architecture with IDP by rolling out AGENTS.md, RAG pipelines, MCP servers for GitLab/Jira.
• Foster developer autonomy with LEGO-like abstractions for pipelines and releases.
• Track ROI and vendor performance using DXI, Change Failure Rate, and velocity metrics.

Skills

Platform Engineering

DevEx

AI-enabled products

Stakeholder management

Tools

GitLab

Jira

CI/CD

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 - Developer Experience

The Internal Developer Platform (IDP) cluster is on a mission to create standardized, scalable, and delightful experiences across the software development life cycle (SDLC) so Adyen engineers are empowered to deliver value more efficiently and reliably for our customers.

As a Senior Product Manager within the IDP cluster, you will manage a key stream of our platform evolution. Your goal is to transition our engineering organization from fragmented, "tribal knowledge" based flows to a cohesive, automated ecosystem that reduces cognitive load, minimizes manual toil, and ensures our platform scales with our global engineering footprint. 2026 is our year of deep optimization and resilience; you are a product leader who understands that scaling a platform requires balancing innovation with mandatory reliability and stability mandates

What you’ll do:

• Optimize the SDLC: Drive initiatives to reduce SDLC friction, such as reducing CI flakiness and improving build insights, to help teams shift from centralized, manual processes to systemic, automated "golden paths".
• Drive Product Maturity: Take ownership of product lifecycle management by assessing the maturity of our toolset, executing on necessary deprecations, and ensuring our core products have clear adoption paths and value propositions.
• Build Technical Context: Partner with IDP engineering to bridge the gap between generic AI models and Adyen’s complex architecture. You will prioritize the rollout of AGENTS.md standards, internal RAG pipelines, and Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers for tools like GitLab and Jira.
• Foster Developer Autonomy: Work across the organization to bridge the gap between infrastructure and developer needs, building "LEGO-block" style abstractions that allow teams to own their pipelines and release cycles while maintaining secure, compliant guardrails.
• Validate ROI & Manage Vendors: Implement data-driven feedback loops to track adoption and measure SDLC improvements against core metrics like DXI, Change Failure Rate, and developer velocity

Who you are:

• 10+ years of product experience ideally within Platform Engineering, Developer Experience (DevEx), or AI-enabled technical products.
• You are technically credible. You can confidently spar with engineers about system architecture, CI/CD pipeline constraints, and the balance between centralized governance and team autonomy.
• You are a master of change management. You know how to influence developer habits and drive adoption in highly opinionated technical environments.
• You are data-driven, capable of translating subjective developer feedback and system/usage data into clear impact metrics.
• You thrive in ambiguity. You can execute quickly without waiting for perfect information and adapt quickly to new information

Our Diversity, Equity and Inclusion commitments

Our unique approach is a product of our diverse perspectives. This diversity of backgrounds and cultures is essential in helping us maintain our momentum. Our business and technical challenges are unique, and we need as many different voices as possible to join us in solving them - voices like yours. No matter who you are or where you’re from, we welcome you to be your true self at Adyen.

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!

What’s next?

Ensuring a smooth and enjoyable candidate experience is critical for us. We aim to get back to you regarding your application within 5 business days. Our interview process tends to take about 4 weeks to complete, but may fluctuate depending on the role. Learn more about our hiring process here. Don’t be afraid to let us know if you need more flexibility.

This role is based out of our [CITY NAME] office. We are an office-first company and value in-person collaboration; we do not offer remote-only roles.