# Head of Growth, Scheme Compliance at Adyen

- Company: Adyen
- What the company does: Run payments, manage your data, and offer financial products in one platform. Adyen is purpose-built for the world. Backed by Index and ICONIQ.
- Company website: http://adyen.com/
- Type: Startups
- Level: Principal and up
- Location: New York; San Francisco
- Work setup: On-site
- Pay: $195K to $263K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-08-20
- Apply by: 2026-10-12
- Apply: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/adyen/jobs/8114423
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/adyen-head-of-growth-scheme-compliance/

## About the role

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.

## What they're looking for

- Strong product mindset, with experience translating regulatory and scheme requirements into system behavior, data structures, and configuration rules in partnership with Product and Engineering
- Proven experience leading global, cross-functional initiatives that involve multiple stakeholders (e.g., Product, Legal, Commercial, Partnerships)
- Deep understanding of payments ecosystems, including card networks, alternative payment methods, and/or acquiring models
- Demonstrated ability to design platform-level guardrails for new payment flows or business models and to decide when to launch, constrain, or decline based on risk/reward
- Strong commercial judgment, with the ability to balance growth objectives against regulatory, partner, and operational risk
- Experience evaluating new business models or payment flows and defining clear guardrails for launch

Tags: Compliance