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.
Product Manager, Internal Cloud Services
The Platform Engineering group is building Platform as a Product that can enable engineers to autonomously build and support secure, scalable, and reliable applications with high speed and quality through a common technology ecosystem. This ecosystem must always be available, so our merchants can always process payments. Our products and services enable the growth of our core business while helping engineers deliver faster with self-service tools that provide an amazing developer experience.
Within Platform Engineering, the Adyen Cloud Services (ACS) teams provide the building blocks (infrastructure, platforms and services) that enable our IDP (Internal Developer Portal) and shared application capabilities to run in a scalable, secure and reliable way.
What you'll do
- Working closely with the engineering counterparts and leadership, you will be responsible for scaling the most impactful infrastructure building blocks of the Adyen Cloud Service.
- Dive deep into understanding problems and prioritize which ones to solve, ensuring that imminent issues are resolved first and the long term is also taken care of.
- Focus on defining the product strategy and the team's roadmap, executing the strategy, and ensuring all teams and stakeholders are aligned.
- Interact regularly with infrastructure engineers, software developers, product managers, and the leadership teams from other departments.
- Guide cross-functional teams to establish a roadmap with feasible and measurable goals.
- Closely collaborate with your peers to discover opportunities to improve the overall engineering experience and drive decision making.
- Deliver products across the finish line with engineers, infrastructure teams, internal stakeholders, and product peers.
Who you are
- At least 3 years of experience as a Product Manager and delivered successful outcomes.
- Someone with a good technical understanding to formulate problems to solve with your technical counterparts, and also the ability to zoom out and ask the right questions to guide decision making.
- You have a good conceptual understanding of platforms and infrastructure, are aware of industry trends and how infrastructure can enable and scale the overall performance of a company.
- Good understanding on how to move towards standardization and unification of services to drive efficiency.
- Knowledgeable on what is needed to drive decisions with the team, considering business and technical needs.
- Fueled by curiosity, always on the lookout to learn how something works, whether it's our platform's performance, application architecture, or the scalability of our products.
- A strong communicator and are able to challenge the status quo to drive positive change.
- Someone that promotes strong teamwork, healthy collaboration, and inclusivity, with a growth mindset and the thirst to learn and build great products.
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 primarily based out of our Amsterdam office and will also require some travel to our offices in Chicago.
We are an office-first company and value in-person collaboration; we do not offer remote-only roles.
