Group Product Manager, Balance foundation

This is Adyen

Adyen provides payments, data, and financial products in a single solution for customers like Ebay, 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.

Product leader - Balance Foundation

We’re looking for a product leader to scale and grow our Banking infrastructure. Being uniquely positioned as a Fintech with banking licenses, Adyen has built its Banking infrastructure fully in-house and leverages its banking licenses in Europe, the United States and United Kingdom to offer a variety of financial products that use our banking infra and network. 

The primary goal of the Balance Foundation is to deliver fundamental and robust services and controls, enabling product teams to build reliable and compliant products. The shared foundation ensures banking, issuing, Capital and Payments can interoperate well with each other, and function together with a unified and consistent client experience.

This group develops core services and frameworks for storing money and processing money moving transactions for financial products. It builds the foundation for the common aspects of all transactional flows, including balance control, storage, ledgering, and end to end reconciliation. In addition, this group also offers internal functionalities to manage the cash required for transactions. This includes enabling internal teams to automatically or manually move cash between accounts for liquidity, trade currencies as needed, and create cash management models to forecast liquidity capacity.

The role is based out of Amsterdam and sits within our Financial Products solution which is responsible for all financial products we offer to our customers. Whether we work with large partner platforms, medium sized local merchants, or major international enterprise businesses, our products need to meet our clients expectations and seamlessly fit into their systems.

What you’ll do

• Lead the product teams that are responsible for building the core of our banking infrastructure which includes ledgering, transaction flows and balances.

• Set the vision to how we should scale our banking infrastructure, its balance accounts (APIs, account lifecycle and balances), how we build out our robust, reliable and consistent transaction flows, FX capabilities and cash management tooling.
• Work closely with your product teams to prioritise between the needs from different stakeholders, especially with our treasury department.
• Ensure we are compliant with local regulations and payment system rules at all times.

• Work closely together with our commercial teams to enable them to sell and explain the USPs of our banking infrastructure, accounts, transaction flows and fx capabilities.
• Actively engage with customers to ensure they can get the true value out of our product and understand their future product needs;
• You will multiply your impact by guiding and growing the team working directly or indirectly on our offering.

Who you are

• • Experience - 12+ years of working experience in product roles within a fintech- or financial services environment focussed on transactional banking
  • Product management - You are able to create a reliable roadmap and have the capability to make tough prioritization decisions.
  • Leadership - You have managed and successfully grown product teams before.
  • Mindset - You have an entrepreneurial mindset and are able to form a vision and work with your teams to implement that.
  • Proven record - You have experience in launching and scaling enterprise banking products and have in-depth experience in banking infrastructures. 
  • Market-informed - You know the global enterprise banking and fintech world including the most important banking systems globally. 
  • Analytics - You are able to assess and quantity the needs from different stakeholders and determine which business cases add the most value for further development.
  • Entrepreneurship - You are hands-on, have strong project management skills in which you take full ownership and control over your projects, and have the ability to manage priorities to get projects done in time
  • Communication - You have strong communication skills to interact with both internal and external stakeholders from varying disciplines and cultures.

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.