
Adyen · Chicago; San Francisco
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 fina...
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.
We are looking for a highly strategic, visionary, and technically adept Head of Product, North America Payments. In this
executive-level role, you will be the driving force behind our regional payments strategy, leveraging advanced technologies like
AI and ML to shape the future of our product offerings.
You will lead a high-performing team of Product Managers and Product Leaders, partnering closely with Engineering, Partnerships,
and Commercial teams to deliver solutions that meet the complex needs of our enterprise customers. If you are obsessed with
payments, possess an exceptional product sense, and know how to bridge high-level vision with measurable execution, we want to
hear from you.
strong, sharp product sense to every decision.
Commercial and other XFN teams to align roadmaps and deliver high-impact products.
fostering a culture of ownership, technical excellence, and speed.
to key strategic customers, listen deeply to their needs, and help them navigate and leverage the Adyen Payments product
vision.
a senior product leadership role (e.g., Director, VP, or Head of Product).
at a top-tier technology company.
discussions with senior engineering leaders. A background in software engineering is a significant plus.
experience building with AI agents, copilots, and/or embedding ML models into core products.
the ground with customers to learn about their complex payment workflows and needs.
roadmap—and you know how to inspire an entire organization to execute on it.
At Adyen, you will be part of a global team that is redefining the payments landscape. We offer competitive compensation,
comprehensive benefits, and the opportunity to make a tangible impact on the success of the world’s leading brands.
The annual base salary range for this role is $258,500 - $375,600; to learn more about our compensation philosophy, please
click here.
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. Don’t be afraid to let us know if you need more flexibility.
Adyen is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based on race, color, ethnicity, ancestry, national origin,
religion, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, disability, veteran status, genetic
information, marital status or any legally protected status.
All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.
This role is based out of our Chicago office. We have a hybrid workplace and value in-person collaboration; we do not offer
remote-only roles.
Thought Machine's mission is bold – to properly and permanently rid the world's banks of legacy technology. To achieve this, we have developed the foundations of modern banking through core and payments technology which run natively in the cloud. What we are attempting is hard and means we need great people working together to build great technology. We have grown rapidly in the past few years – growing our team to more than 550 individuals across offices in London, New York, Singapore, Sydney and our newly established Engineering Hub in Lisbon. We have raised more than £500m in funding and our investors include Molten Ventures, Eurazeo, Intesa Sanpaolo, Temasek, Nyca Partners, JPMorgan Chase Strategic Investments, Standard Chartered Ventures, and more. We have created a culture that enables our team to produce the best work in the industry while ensuring we have fun along the way. We're regularly cited as having a fantastic workplace culture and have been recognised by Sifted magazine as having one of the highest Glassdoor ratings for a UK fintech company and the industry's most generous employee share package. Named one of the world's most innovative fintechs by Global Finance Magazine, we were also recognised by the Financial Times as one of Europe's fastest-growing companies for two consecutive years—and a UK Best Employer for 2026. At Thought Machine, we believe the next era of finance is predictive, personal, and powered by AI. Over the last decade, we engineered the cloud-native foundation making that vision a reality — bridging sophisticated architectural logic with the real-time data required for world-class customer experiences. Our platform is globally recognised for its radical flexibility and resiliency, empowering the world’s most ambitious banks and fintechs to build, launch, and scale the products and experiences of tomorrow, faster than ever before. After a record year of growth and recently finalising our next fundraising round, we are entering our most ambitious stage of growth yet. We are now looking for a Head of Partnerships to architect and lead the ecosystem that will bring Vault Core and Vault Payments to every bank and fintech on the planet. As Head of Partnerships, you will own the strategic direction and commercial performance of the Thought Machine partner ecosystem. Sitting at the intersection of product strategy and market expansion, you are responsible for ensuring our platform remains the central gravity for the modern financial stack. Starting with a team of five, you will work to ensure we identify and engage the right partners to become a seamless part of our customer offering. You will be the bridge between our internal product roadmap and the external commercial market, ensuring that our ecosystem accelerates sales cycles, opens new territories, and provides a complete, end-to-end solution for our clients big and small. Key duties: * Ecosystem Strategy & Architecture: Identify and prioritise partnership categories—from global payment networks to AI-driven specialists—that enhance our competitive position and solve critical customer needs. * Commercial Deal Architecture: Design and negotiate high-stakes commercial frameworks, including revenue-sharing and joint go-to-market (GTM) strategies that drive measurable ARR growth for Thought Machine and our partners. * Team Leadership & Scaling: Manage and scale a high-performing team of five Partnership Managers, shifting the focus from "introductions" to "executed commercial outcomes" while building repeatable global processes. * Market-Product Alignment: Collaborate with Product Leads to ensure that third-party integrations are high-quality, reliable, and add immediate value to our core banking and payments products. * AI Opportunity & Productisation: Lead the strategy for integrating AI-first partners, ensuring their capabilities are leveraged to deliver the "predictive and personal" banking experiences our clients demand. * Partner Governance & Quality Control: Establish and enforce "Vault-Certified" standards, defining the technical and operational benchmarks partners must meet to ensure zero compromise on system resiliency and regulatory compliance (e.g., DORA, SOC2). * Commercial Enablement & GTM: Develop the playbooks and sales enablement tools required to turn technical solutions and integrations into sellable product sets that accelerate sales cycles and open new territories. * Strategic Intelligence: Act as a primary feedback loop for the CPO, providing data-backed insights on market trends and competitor moves to inform "build-vs-buy-vs-partner" decisions. * Regional Expansion: Develop and execute partnership plans that support our growth in North America, EMEA, and APAC, ensuring our ecosystem is localised and compliant. * Performance & ROI Optimisation: Implement a rigorous framework for tracking ecosystem health, focusing on metrics such as partner-influenced pipeline, integration adoption, and impact on customer time-to-value. Who you are: * Strategic Growth Leader: Extensive experience in Partnerships, Business Development, or Product Strategy within Fintech or Enterprise SaaS. You have a proven ability to use CRM data and market trends to quantify the impact of an ecosystem on sales velocity and LTV. * Commercially Driven: You have a track record of closing complex, multi-million pound deals and understand how to align technical product roadmaps with aggressive revenue targets. * Complex Stakeholder Navigator: You can effectively influence internal Engineering teams while simultaneously navigating the procurement, legal, and risk hurdles of Tier 1 global financial institutions. * Solution-Minded: You understand the modern financial technology landscape and can identify which combination of Thought Machine and partner tech solves a client’s problem most efficiently. * Effective Leader: You have experience managing and developing teams through rapid scale, focusing on clear accountability and the transition from a "deal-support" to a "market-making" model. * A Master Communicator: You navigate high-level negotiations with global incumbents and agile startups alike, building trust through clarity and commercial logic. Traits we value: * Commercial Rigour: You prioritise opportunities based on ROI, market demand, and strategic impact. * Ambitious Outlook: You are motivated by the challenge of replacing legacy banking tech and believe in the AI-powered future of finance. * Metrics Driven: You are able to set and enforce leading, present, and lagging metrics on performance, both for our partners and our team * Decisiveness: You are comfortable making high-stakes calls and moving at the pace of a Series E scale-up. * Directness: You value transparency and provide clear, actionable insights to your team and your peers. Benefits: * Highly competitive salary * Pension plan (match up to 5%) * Life insurance - three times annual salary * Competitive maternity (six months fully paid) and paternity leave (four weeks fully paid) * Shared parental leave (matched to our maternity leave for the same point in time) * 25 days holiday and bank holidays * Flexible working hours * Cycle-to-work scheme * Electric car scheme * Season ticket loan * Access to outstanding learning materials and courses * Sports and hobby clubs, subsidised by Thought Machine * All the latest tech you need * Start the day properly with fresh fruit and cereals * Huge range of healthy (and not-so-healthy) snacks, smoothies and drinks * A talented and experienced team as your colleagues * An environment where we encourage learning and progress * Two charity days a year * Weekly food pop-up We actively hire candidates who demonstrate technical excellence in their field and welcome people of all ages and backgrounds, providing everyone with equal access to professional development. You are encouraged to apply even if your experience doesn't accurately match the job description. We also encourage applications from those with different abilities, including candidates with ADHD, autism, dyslexia or dyspraxia.
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. About the job As a Senior Employee Relations Manager, you will be responsible for leading and managing neutral, timely, and thorough investigations to ensure a respectful and safe workplace. You'll act as a trusted advisor to leadership and the People Team, using your expertise in investigations, legal guidelines, and HR best practices. You will lead and contribute to projects which positively impact the workplace. Your work will directly support our commitment to maintaining a positive and inclusive culture for all employees. This is an individual contributor role that reports to the Head of Employment Legal and Employee Relations. You will be required to work from Adyen’s office at least 3 days per week with at least 1 in-office day being a Monday or Friday. The salary range for this role is: What you'll do * Help to further build out our investigation function at Adyen. * Lead and manage all aspects of internal investigations under the direction of NA Employment Counsel. Your responsibilities will cover the full lifecycle of an investigation: * Intakes and interviews * Collecting and weighing evidence * Conducting forensic evidence searches * Making credibility determinations * Reaching factual findings according to the relevant evidentiary standard * Analyzing factual findings against internal policies * Determining whether policies have been violated * Debriefing internal stakeholders and leadership regarding investigation conclusions * Thorough case documentation and record keeping * Develop key Employee Relations and Employment Legal projects, such as improving investigation processes, implementing new ER-focused technologies * Reviewing and recommending existing policy updates. * Occasional legal research regarding employment legal issues. * Design and deliver training programs for managers and employees on topics like respectful workplace conduct, ethical behavior, and effective complaint resolution. * Coaching HR Business Partners on employee relations matters and best practices. * Analyzing data with an eye towards prevention, identifying trends, and recommending initiatives. * Up to 15% travel may be required. What you bring * You have 10+ years of experience in an Employee Relations or Employment Legal role with a primary focus on conducting workplace investigations. * You have deep knowledge of employment law and regulations across North America. * You are an excellent communicator, with the ability to handle confidential information with the utmost discretion. Strongly preferred * Experience in a global or high-growth tech company * Employment Legal practice experience * Law license in at least one US state * AWI-CH 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! Other details: * This role is based out of our San Francisco, Chicago, or New York office. We are an office-first company and value in-person collaboration; we do not offer remote-only roles * Ability to travel domestically and internationally 20%+ * The annual base salary range for this role is $210,000-$275,000 to learn more about our compensation philosophy, please click here. 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 4-5 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 San Fransisco, Chicago, or New York City office. We are an office-first company and value in-person collaboration; we do not offer remote-only roles.
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. About the job As a Senior Employee Relations Manager, you will be responsible for leading and managing neutral, timely, and thorough investigations to ensure a respectful and safe workplace. You'll act as a trusted advisor to leadership and the People Team, using your expertise in investigations, legal guidelines, and HR best practices. You will lead and contribute to projects which positively impact the workplace. Your work will directly support our commitment to maintaining a positive and inclusive culture for all employees. This is an individual contributor role that reports to the Head of Employment Legal and Employee Relations. You will be required to work from Adyen’s office at least 3 days per week with at least 1 in-office day being a Monday or Friday. The salary range for this role is: What you'll do * Help to further build out our investigation function at Adyen. * Lead and manage all aspects of internal investigations under the direction of NA Employment Counsel. Your responsibilities will cover the full lifecycle of an investigation: * Intakes and interviews * Collecting and weighing evidence * Conducting forensic evidence searches * Making credibility determinations * Reaching factual findings according to the relevant evidentiary standard * Analyzing factual findings against internal policies * Determining whether policies have been violated * Debriefing internal stakeholders and leadership regarding investigation conclusions * Thorough case documentation and record keeping * Develop key Employee Relations and Employment Legal projects, such as improving investigation processes, implementing new ER-focused technologies * Reviewing and recommending existing policy updates. * Occasional legal research regarding employment legal issues. * Design and deliver training programs for managers and employees on topics like respectful workplace conduct, ethical behavior, and effective complaint resolution. * Coaching HR Business Partners on employee relations matters and best practices. * Analyzing data with an eye towards prevention, identifying trends, and recommending initiatives. * Up to 15% travel may be required. What you bring * You have 10+ years of experience in an Employee Relations or Employment Legal role with a primary focus on conducting workplace investigations. * You have deep knowledge of employment law and regulations across North America. * You are an excellent communicator, with the ability to handle confidential information with the utmost discretion. Strongly preferred * Experience in a global or high-growth tech company * Employment Legal practice experience * Law license in at least one US state * AWI-CH 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! Other details: * This role is based out of our San Francisco, Chicago, or New York office. We are an office-first company and value in-person collaboration; we do not offer remote-only roles * Ability to travel domestically and internationally 20%+ * The annual base salary range for this role is $210,000-$275,000 to learn more about our compensation philosophy, please click here. 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 4-5 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 New York City office. We are an office-first company and value in-person collaboration; we do not offer remote-only roles.