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title: 'AI Tech Risk Officer at Adyen'
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# AI Tech Risk Officer at Adyen

- **Company:** Adyen
- **Location:** New York, NY
- **Posted:** 2026-11-05
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-11-11
- **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/adyen/jobs/8352483

## Job description

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.

AI Tech Risk Officer

Adyen combines the agility of a global tech company with the stability of a licensed financial institution. As a Tech Risk Officer focused on AI technology, you will partner with cross-functional teams and regional second-line functions (such as Model risk, Compliance and the DPO office) to ensure safe, secure, and resilient implementation of autonomous AI architectures and regulatory requirements. The Tech Risk team, part of the second line risk function ensures that risk management practices are applied across Adyen’s technological environments, teams and initiatives. This continuous task requires a close and supporting relationship with tech teams in the first line, in order to understand changes in the tech landscape but also to guide them in relation to risk mitigations. In this role, you will focus on the unique security and architectural risks associated with building, deploying, and monitoring autonomous AI agents, working closely with first-line engineering teams to embed risk mitigation into technical design. You will be part of building technology, challenging design and execution through constructive and positive conversations. Realize better outcomes together. The ideal candidate is a risk or tech professional with hands-on experience evaluating and managing risks arising from the implementation of AI solutions, software architecture for agentic systems and the underlying tech stack. You have a technical background that enables you to evaluate agentic workflows, models safety, and integration points, advancing our second-line risk framework to support safe AI innovation at scale. Both security as well as IT-resilience experience is welcome.

## What you will do

- Evaluate technology threats and risks  across diverse AI developments in the industry, internal projects and assets, advising stakeholders and ensuring risk mitigation actions are implemented.
- Collaborate closely with leadership and build an internal network to ensure the domain remains represented in business activities, contributing to decision making.
- Drive the second line risk oversight for AI and general Technology risks, including KRI design, risk monitoring and reporting.
- Collaborate with other Risk domains, in order to incorporate AI Tech risks into Adyen’s risk profile, ensuring those are considered when evaluating company objectives.
- Collaborate with or advise other second-line teams (typically Regulatory, Compliance and Privacy) in the implementation of AI Governance requirements in Adyen’s tech environments, as well as engage with local auditors or external partners (externally) as a trusted point of contact for the specific risk domain, globally.
- Engage with various regulators to provide clarity on Adyen’s IT Resilience and excellence landscape.

## Who you are

- You have at least 5+ years experience within a risk management function, with 2 years of demonstrated experience guiding AI risk mitigations, AI Governance or AI Cyber Security.
- Demonstrated experience evaluating technology risks, Security best practices and associated industry and regulatory frameworks.
- You feel comfortable explaining risks associated with IT environments to engineers but also to business stakeholders.
- You have a solid understanding of commonly used AI technology stack (hardware, software, network and systems, on-prem or cloud solutions), at the level required to identify risks or weaknesses and recommend tangible actions, design metrics to enable risk monitoring and oversight.
- You are innovative, flexible with strong problem-solving capabilities and able to define effective processes, when possible scaling manual processes via automation.
- Available to work from our New York office and travel to other offices periodically.
- Fluent in English, both written and spoken. Any additional language is a plus.

## Compensation

The base salary range for this role is $145,000- $260,000. To learn more about our compensation philosophy, please click [here](https://docs.google.com/document/d/11U2tgFev7p271JMQWMApZjtpJ3pGHNES7EvscXnsH3k/edit?tab=t.0).

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion at Adyen

We actively seek different perspectives to sharpen our ideas. Our unique culture is a product of our diverse backgrounds and experiences. No matter who you are or where you’re from, you’re welcome to be your true self at Adyen.

If you need accommodations or support during the recruitment process to perform at your best, you’ll have the opportunity to let our team know in your application. We encourage people from all backgrounds and abilities to apply.

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](https://careers.adyen.com/how-we-hire). 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 Francisco

Pursuant 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 New York office. We are an office-first company and value in-person collaboration; we do not offer remote-only roles.

## About Adyen

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Adyen provides a unified financial technology platform with end-to-end payment capabilities, data insights, and financial products designed for ambitious global businesses.
- **Entity Type**: Public (ticker not specified in provided sources)
- **Headquarters**: Amsterdam, Netherlands
- **Founded**: 2006
- **Founders**: Pieter van der Does (Co-founder, CEO) and others

## Core Business
- Primary industry: Financial technology (fintech) – payments, embedded finance, and data analytics.
- Target customers: B2B, Enterprise (retail, travel & hospitality, SaaS platforms, marketplaces, food & beverage, digital media, financial services).
- Mission: “Engineered for ambition” – help businesses grow faster with a single, modern platform.

## Products & Services
- **Unified Payments Platform**: Accept, settle, and move money online, in-app, and in-store via one API supporting 200+ local payment methods and 150+ currencies.
- **Adyen for Platforms**: Enables marketplaces and SaaS platforms to manage payments, payouts, and money movement for their users.
- **Adyen Issuing**: Issue physical and virtual cards under the client’s brand.
- **Adyen Embedded Finance**: Embed payments, accounts, card issuing, and capital into third-party products.
- **Risk Management & Fraud Tools**: Built‑in optimization to reduce fraud and lower payment costs.
- **Terminal API & Point of Sale (POS)**: Integrated in‑person payment hardware.
- **Adyen Giving**: Donation feature for charitable contributions at checkout.
- **Adyen Agentic** (new): AI‑platform commerce capabilities.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not provided in search results (public company).
- **Key Metric**: Processed volume of €970.1 BN in 2023 [adyen.com/about].
- **Notable Customers/Partners**: Meta, Nord Security, L’Occitane, Rectangle Health, Vagaro, Groupon (first global enterprise merchant) [adyen.com].
- **Growth Signals**:
  - 4,000+ employees representing 115+ nationalities [adyen.com/about].
  - 28–29 offices across Europe, North America, Asia Pacific, Latin America, and the Middle East [adyen.com/about].
  - Obtained US, UK, EU banking licenses and acquiring licenses in Japan, UAE, Malaysia, Puerto Rico, Singapore, Hong Kong, Australia, New Zealand [adyen.com/about].
  - Launched Adyen Agentic and continues to expand embedded finance offerings.

## Competitive Advantages
- 99.999% historical platform uptime [adyen.com].
- Single API that supports multiple use cases and channels, reducing integration complexity.
- Fully in‑house built technology (no third‑party patchwork).
- Direct acquiring licenses in multiple regions, providing local expertise and compliance.
- Data‑driven optimizations powered by trillions of euros in transaction data.
- Engineering‑first culture with a focus on speed, autonomy, and long‑term thinking.

## Strategic Focus
- Expand global footprint and acquiring licenses.
- Grow embedded finance and platform products (Adyen for Platforms, Issuing, Capital).
- Launch AI‑powered commerce via Adyen Agentic.
- Maintain high reliability and compliance (US, UK, EU banking licenses).
- Attract and retain top engineering talent to solve complex financial challenges.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: “Office‑first” with flexibility – believes in‑person collaboration builds genuine connection [careers.adyen.com].
- **Benefits**: “Adyen+” monthly financial contribution for individual needs (childcare, language courses, home office setup), plus health insurance, commute allowance, lunch in office, and local benefits.
- **Engineering**: Engineers tackle unique challenges in financial technology; culture emphasizes launching fast, iterating, winning as a team, and creating your own path (“The Adyen Formula”).
- **Global Team**: 115+ nationalities across 28 offices; diverse, collaborative environment.

## Sources
1. [adyen.com/about](https://www.adyen.com/about)
2. [adyen.com](https://www.adyen.com/)
3. [careers.adyen.com](https://careers.adyen.com/)
4. [careers.adyen.com/vacancies](https://careers.adyen.com/vacancies)
5. [careers.adyen.com/formula](https://careers.adyen.com/formula)

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