About Adyen
Adyen is the financial technology platform of choice for leading companies. By providing end-to-end payments capabilities, data-driven insights, and financial products in a single global solution, Adyen helps businesses achieve their ambitions faster. With offices around the world, Adyen serves customers including Facebook, Uber, Spotify, and Microsoft.
The Role
Adyen is seeking a visionary product leader to serve as our Head of Product for Developer Experience. Our developer platform is the foundation upon which thousands of businesses build their payment and financial systems. As our customers increasingly use AI-powered development tools to build their integrations, we are looking for an AI-native leader to set the strategy and accelerate the evolution of our platform.
You will be responsible for the entire developer journey, from onboarding to the first API call to scaling globally. You will lead a team of talented product managers and tech writers to define and execute the roadmap for our APIs, SDKs, developer tooling, and documentation, ensuring Adyen provides a world-class, intuitive, and powerful platform for builders.
What You'll Do
- Set the Vision: Define and champion the product vision and strategy for Adyen’s developer platform and how it evolves in an AI-native world.
- Own the Developer Journey: Take full ownership of the end-to-end developer experience, including API/webhook design, SDKs, documentation, sandbox environments, and identity & access management.
- Drive Product Execution: Work cross-functionally with Engineering, Design, Developer Relations, and Marketing to deliver high-quality products and drive their adoption.
- Lead and Mentor: Build, lead, and mentor a high-performing team of product managers dedicated to the developer ecosystem.
- Be the Voice of the Developer: Engage deeply with our customers and the broader developer community to understand their needs, gather insights, and translate them into impactful products.
Who You Are
- An Experienced Product Leader: You have 15+ years of experience in technology, with at least 8 years in a product leadership role (e.g., Director, VP, or Head of Product).
- A Developer Platform Expert: You have a proven track record of leading product for a successful, large-scale developer platform, API, or SDK product at a top-tier technology company.
- An AI Native: You have demonstrable experience leading AI-powered product initiatives. You think natively about how AI can transform the developer experience and have experience with AI agents, copilots, or similar technologies.
- Technically Adept: You have a strong technical background and are comfortable engaging with senior engineering leaders on complex system architecture and API design decisions. A background in engineering is a plus.
- Customer-Centric: You are obsessed with the developer journey and have a deep empathy for the challenges and needs of builders.
- Strategic & Impactful: You are a strategic thinker who can connect a high-level vision to a tangible, measurable roadmap and inspire a team to execute on it. Experience in fintech or payments is highly desirable.
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. Learn more about our hiring process here. 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.
San FranciscoPursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
This role is based out of our San Francisco office. We are an office-first company and value in-person collaboration; we do not offer remote-only roles.
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What We Do
Adyen (ADYEN:AMS) is the financial technology platform of choice for leading companies. By providing end-to-end payments capabilities, data-driven insights, and financial products in a single global solution, Adyen helps businesses achieve their ambitions faster. With offices around the world, Adyen works with the likes of Meta, Uber, H&M, eBay, and Microsoft.
Why Work With Us
At Adyen, everything we do is engineered for ambition. We started with payments, at a time when providers offered services based on a patchwork of systems built on outdated infrastructure. Ambition demanded more. So we set off to build a financial technology platform for the modern era, entirely in-house, from the ground up.
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We believe that in-person collaboration is the best route to building genuine connection. We’re an office-first company that offers flexibility when needed. We trust our team to act with autonomy and make good choices.
