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.
The Role: Senior Product Manager, Protect
Adyen’s Protect solution is at the forefront of enabling sustainable growth for our merchants by intelligently adapting to evolving risks. This Senior Product Manager role is a strategic, high-impact position responsible for defining and executing a core part of Adyen’s Uplift product suite, in the fraud prevention space., focusing on maintaining merchant trust and proactively staying ahead of emerging fraud vectors.
You will take ownership of a major strategic initiative—such as driving ML performance and agility—and translate complex business risks into best-in-class product solutions. You will be measured on tangible outcomes, not just features, ensuring Adyen's risk management capabilities are seamless, transparent, and fundamentally competitive.
What You’ll Do
- Collaborate on the strategy: Actively collaborate and help to drive the multi-year product roadmap for a key strategic pillar within Protect, ensuring alignment with the product vision to empower sustainable growth through intelligent risk adaptation.
- Drive strategic initiatives: Lead one or more of Adyen’s key fraud prevention initiatives, regarding Machine Learning and risk mitigation.
- Stakeholder Leadership: Act as the internal champion for your product area, collaborating across commercial, development, legal, and operational teams to ensure seamless product delivery and alignment.
- Global Merchant Success: Maintain a "Merchant trust is paramount" focus. Gather market intelligence, customer feedback, and competitive analysis to ensure your product delivers a superior, high-control fraud management experience that minimizes the total cost of fraud for our global customer base.
Who You Are
- Experience & leadership: 5+ years of experience in Product Management, with a strong track record of leading cross-functional teams and delivering impactful results, preferably in a global environment.
- Domain Expertise: Deep domain knowledge in Risk Management, Fraud Prevention, or Fintech/Payments. Experience working with large-scale transactional data, machine learning models, and behavioral risk signals is highly desirable.
- Strategic acumen: Proven experience in developing multi-year product strategies and translating them into clear, prioritized roadmaps that align with critical business objectives.
- Technical depth: Ability to work closely with sophisticated engineering and data science teams, understand APIs, system architectures, and lead the delivery of technically complex, scalable risk products.
- Data-Driven focus: Strong analytical and results-oriented mindset, skilled in interpreting granular performance metrics (e.g., by region, industry, or merchant) to drive measurable business outcomes.
- Exceptional communicator: Ability to articulate complex risk concepts and product rationale clearly to diverse internal and external audiences, including senior leadership and domain experts.
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 Amsterdam office. We are an office-first company and value in-person collaboration; we do not offer remote-only roles.
