Product Compliance Manager, Scheme Compliance

The role

You will head the global Growth pillar within Schemes Compliance to enable business growth through compliant operating models. You will lead a globally distributed team to design scalable solutions in collaboration with Product and Engineering.

What you will do

• Lead, develop, and scale a globally distributed team.
• Define the growth strategy for Scheme Compliance.
• Partner with Commercial and Sales to identify merchant needs and revenue opportunities.
• Partner with Product and Engineering to define payment flows and data models.
• Define and standardize operating models for new business lines.
• Drive cross-functional programs across Commercial, Partnerships, Legal, Risk, and Product.
• Act as an escalation point for complex or ambiguous growth opportunities.
• Identify friction in existing payments compliance or partner requirements.
• Establish clear frameworks for decision-making.
• Build playbooks, tooling requirements, and training programs.

Required qualifications

• Strong product mindset with experience translating regulatory and scheme requirements into system behavior, data structures, and configuration rules.
• Proven experience leading global, cross-functional initiatives.
• 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.
• Strong commercial judgment to balance growth objectives against risk.
• Experience evaluating new business models or payment flows and defining clear guardrails for launch.
• Excellent stakeholder management skills.
• Comfortable operating in ambiguity and making decisions in fast-moving, high-growth environments.
• Experience building and coaching high-performing teams.
• Demonstrated ability to think creatively about merchant use cases and turn edge cases into scalable solutions.

Benefits

• Relocation assistance
• Equity (RSUs)
• 401(k)
• Health
• Dental
• Vision

Before you apply

• You must be work authorized in the United States without the need for new visa sponsorship.
• The company can support visa transfers but will not sponsor individuals for H-1B CAP applications.

About the company

Adyen provides payments, data, and financial products in a single solution for customers like Meta, Uber, H&M, and Microsoft. It is a financial technology platform.