--- title: 'Customer Onboarding Manager at Adyen' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/customer-onboarding-manager-adyen-amsterdam-knede403p5ap' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-11-11' --- # Customer Onboarding Manager at Adyen - **Company:** Adyen - **Location:** Amsterdam, Netherlands - **Posted:** 2026-10-29 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-11-11 - **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/adyen/jobs/8328988 ## 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. ## About the role Onboarding Managers are trusted advisors to Commercial teams, helping shape complex opportunities and turn them into scalable, compliant and operationally feasible onboarding solutions. They bring together merchant needs, commercial priorities, compliance requirements and operational considerations to create a clear path to go-live. The team’s goal is to deliver a best-in-class merchant experience through solutioning complex setup during onboarding while giving selling time back to the commercial team. This role will increase onboarding velocity and quality, and make complex opportunities operationally feasible within risk and compliance guardrails. This role is based in Amsterdam and partners with external merchants and internal teams across EMEA. What you’ll do: Onboarding Solutioning & Risk Management - Own onboarding compliance solutioning (KYC, CDD, Scheme requirements etc.) for complex opportunities from first assessment to sign-off - Evaluate merchant risk profiles and build structured operational business cases for high-value deals. - Turn compliance, regulatory and card-scheme requirements into clear guidance that drive onboarding decisions. Stakeholder management - Be the primary operations contact for merchants across the onboarding journey; gather requirements, align expectations and drive milestones. - Translate complex merchant needs and business models into clear, actionable onboarding requirements. - Partner with Sales, Account Management and Compliance to deliver a seamless merchant onboarding journey. - Build trust with senior merchant counterparts and internal leaders across markets in EMEA. Strategic advisory - Shape onboarding opportunities with Commercial, balancing risk frameworks with commercial priorities. - Stay current on regulatory and scheme changes, and educate internal teams on regulatory, process and policy updates relevant to onboarding complex setups. Project Management - Own the onboarding and expansion projects end to end, from commercial handover to go-live for complex clients - Run multiple merchant opportunities in parallel, keeping timeline, dependencies and owners clear. Operational excellence - Set the standard for how merchants are onboarded, and document best practices to enable consistency across markets. - Identify recurring blockers, fix root-cause, track metrics to improve onboarding process. Who you are: ## Basic Qualifications - 5+ years of experience in compliance advisory, client onboarding, or project management, with a track record of running several client-facing projects at once - Experience in payments, fintech, or banking, with hands-on knowledge of KYC, CDD, card-scheme rules, and risk and compliance - Fluent English, written and spoken, and the ability to explain complex topics simply to merchants, Sales, and senior leaders - The confidence to build trust quickly with senior counterparts, internally and externally, across different markets ## Preferred Qualifications - A consultative mindset: you know when to hold the line on risk and when to find a workable route that supports the deal - Strong judgment and prioritization in a fast-paced environment where timelines, dependencies, and owners change often - Experience improving processes, spotting recurring blockers, fixing root causes, and documenting what works for scalable repeats - Excellent presentation skills, including the ability to turn a complex risk assessment into a clear business proposal 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. Please note that this role is a full-time position in Amsterdam. Relocation will be required if you currently reside outside of the Netherlands. ## 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. 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