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Lead Adyen’s Personalize Intelligence team developing machine-learning systems for real-time Checkout optimization and AI products. Provide technical leadership on architecture, reliability, and scalable services; coach machine learning scientists and data engineers; define goals and product roadmaps with Product; collaborate across Design, Engineering, Data, and leadership; monitor system performance; foster an inclusive, high-performing culture; and recruit new team members.

Leads Adyen’s Americas Customer Due Diligence function, overseeing approximately 45 employees and five managers across onboarding and ongoing reviews. The role develops regional CDD strategy, manages complex escalations, partners with Compliance, Commercial, Product, Legal, and Operations, improves scalable processes and automation, ensures regulatory alignment, and drives team growth and performance across multiple locations.

Lead advanced risk, fraud, and payment optimization analyses for major fintech merchants. Analyze large-scale transactional, ML output, and labeled risk data; design experiments and statistical investigations; develop scalable analytical tools, ETL workflows, dashboards, and reusable frameworks; collaborate with risk product teams; translate findings into merchant strategies and product improvements; enable commercial stakeholders through playbooks and self-service tools; and mentor analysts.

Responsible for designing, implementing, managing and maintaining data storage systems, including performance monitoring, capacity planning, security, and disaster recovery.

Lead the Support Quality Assurance function and a team of 2–3 QA Specialists. Define the long-term transition from manual to AI-led evaluation, develop QA frameworks and scoring systems, establish calibration and governance, track quality KPIs, ensure audit readiness and regulatory compliance, manage QA tooling and vendors, and translate insights into improved CSAT, NPS, first-contact resolution, and reduced escalations.

Lead company-wide strategy and execution: run end-to-end strategic projects, align cross-functional stakeholders, design strategic planning and goal-setting, drive business operations rhythms and reviews, create leadership decision materials, and solve ambiguous problems with structured, pragmatic recommendations.

Lead the Data Foundations program to establish data-as-a-product practices. Own cross-functional execution, reduce technical debt, drive adoption of data governance, implement self-service data infrastructure, and maintain program health artifacts (RAID logs, dashboards, roadmaps).

Lead and build a new engineering team within Adyen’s Issuing organization. Own the technical roadmap for card-issuing products, provide technical authority, coach engineers, manage performance, and ensure high-quality execution. Partner with product, commercial, operations, clients, banks, vendors, and other engineering teams to deliver scalable API-based financial services. Shape product strategy, address technical debt, uphold engineering standards, and support expansion of issuing capabilities.

Provides hands-on technical leadership for mobile and terminal payment experiences. Defines architecture and long-term strategy across mobile apps, SDKs, payment terminals, and distributed backend systems. Leads complex reliability, performance, security, and compatibility initiatives; establishes APIs and integration patterns; aligns Product, Design, Legal, and external partners; mentors engineers; and advances observability, testing, and operational excellence.

Assess and manage financial risk (chargebacks) for enterprise merchants, improve risk management framework, lead cross-functional projects, advise credit risk committee, and collaborate with Product, Legal, and Commercial teams.